[headdie]

btw guys europe consists of more than france

Yer but France is where a lot of the big European projects end up or at least with France taking a major role, Britain, Germany and Italy often get involved but France is usually the common denominator.

[Phantom Hoover]

there are so many stereotypes though, why constrain yourself to only one!

[SpardaSon21]

seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.

Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.

[Mikes]

seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.

Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.

Genderbenders vs. Mindrobots ?

[headdie]

seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.

Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.

Genderbenders vs. Mindrobots ?

transspecies genderbenders vs mind robot orgy 

[SpardaSon21]

seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.

Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.

Genderbenders vs. Mindrobots ?

You must mean Arm vs. Core.
I'm not looking forwards to dying an uncountable number of deaths just so I can keep the right to inhabit a biological body.

[FlamingCobra]

pffft. IBM has been working on stuff like this for years.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/08/26/how-ibms-cognitive-computer-works/

It's a computer chip based on neurons.

EDIT: Except this is the exact opposite.
Europe is doing: Build X number of supercomputers and attempt to emulate the human brain.
IBM: Get a bunch of computer engineers and neuroscientists and build a computer chip with 256 artificial neurons and teach it to play Pong. Then scale it up to 2^20 neurons. Then scale it up to 2^33 neurons (137,438,953,472) close to 100 billion, the number of neurons in the human brain.

[Grizzly]

there are so many stereotypes though, why constrain yourself to only one!

Yeah. I mean, we have germany. The first terminator will probably be some blue eyed heavy german guy who speaks with a thi...

wait.

[General Battuta]

there are so many stereotypes though, why constrain yourself to only one!

Yeah. I mean, we have germany. The first terminator will probably be some blue eyed heavy german guy who speaks with a thi...

wait.

Arnold wasn't German :shhh:

[Nuke]

hes austrian, and what is the official language of austria: german.

[butter_pat_head]

So lets say the scientists build their electronic human brain.  They switch it on and it works, everybody celebrates.  What would be the moral implications in turning it off?

[Suongadon]

Uh. nothing? This is just a fancy computer that works like a brain, not a super-sexy, prospectively genocidal AI, right?

[Nuke]

you are better off turning it off before it tries to kill us. from a moral standpoint it would be bad to turn it off, but from a survivalist standpoint: KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!

[Klaustrophobia]

i've always wondered, can't we avoid the AI apocalypse just by not programming self-preservation into them?

[FreeSpaceFreak]

hes austrian, and what is the official language of austria: german.

You're Alaskan, and what's the official language of the US: English

i've always wondered, can't we avoid the AI apocalypse just by not programming self-preservation into them?

I, robot had an AI apocalypse without self-preservation... In fact, without even violating the Three Laws. Once the system becomes capable of autonomous thought, I'd say there is always a chance of AI apocalypse no matter how elaborate the safety buffers we build in.

[Legate Damar]

seems to me you're suggesting multi-species orgy.

Well, yes, but I was mainly suggesting the fact that I intend to be of many species and genders over my very long (possibly infinite) lifetime while BlueFlames is busy enjoying being a piece of machinery.

Genderbenders vs. Mindrobots ?

transspecies genderbenders vs mind robot orgy 

This sounds like a title from the random video game name generator.

[Nuke]

hes austrian, and what is the official language of austria: german.

You're Alaskan, and what's the official language of the US: English

i dont speak english, i speak redneck, its a completely different language.

[Killer Whale]

I'd imagine there's a fair difference between building a computer capable of simulating a human brain, and constructing an autonomous AI (and giving it control of all your nukes).

[SpardaSon21]

Yes, but an electronic brain is the first step towards Skynet.  I for one do not welcome our new robot overlords.

[Nuke]

yea, with a flame thrower!