this piece of news is quite rather unsettling: self-replicatin robot's.
... Each 10 centimetre cube contains a microprocessor, and they are all equipped with an identical set of instructions that tell the block how to connect and swivel, depending on the way it is linked to other blocks. The instructions are designed to make the blocks work together to self-replicate...
reet. and the boffin responsible for this so-called groundbreakin invention claimed that these little self-thinkin thingies are, in his words, easy to control.
in other words, he's not fretting about the possibility of them takin control over the blue marble some day. given the rapid regression of the human race, back to the pre-neantherdal ape-like mental and behavioural states, as we are witnessin at the moment.
so which is a more harrowin scenario?
a. human's completely wiped out
b. self-replicating intelligent machine's subjectin humans to a brutal existence
or have i been readin too much sci-fi such as this?
as enscribed by the letter b @ May 12, 2005 06:32 AM