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that laugh!

Woohoo, bring on the singularity. Terminators rock...

evan if a computer had the mathamatical computatoinal power of 6 billoin human minds it would still be fairly basic and very stupid compared to a single human brain . raw speed dosent realy mean that mutch intmers of emulating ore creating something as inteligent as a human brain .

its going to be decades before researches asemmble a computer with an arcutecture simula to a human brain where each transistor conects simutanously to 300,000 other ones ( ore something equivelnt) and then we would have to write/ have it write its own software which is another story all together.

allso i wish people would stop making documentries like this boring long and no real informatoin

Worrying about whether or not we should build sentient beings superior to ourselves is somewhat pointless because it's going to happen. If there were no possible outcomes besides the destruction of our race, someone would still desire that outcome.

We're not talking about building a massive calculator, here. We're talking about building a sentient intelligence. Is it safe to release that intelligence unfettered upon the world? Is it right to contain that intelligence to protect ourselves? Is it right to force that intelligence to serve us?

The integration of electronics into our own brains is a more immediate concern. The potential then exists for our thoughts to be monitored and controlled on a whole new level. This can happen overtly or covertly. The extreme example of the overt method would be mandatory implants. Covert deployment seems more likely to me, with malicious code or behavior hidden within an attractive package. The Diebold of the future will not tamper with voting machines, they will control the decisions of the voters.

Inevitably there will be religious extremists who protest these advancements on the basis that we are "playing God". The technology will establish itself regardless. When it does, religious extremists will seek to "play God" themselves by "fixing" homosexuals and other blasphemers.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Hey! That's Harry Potter music!