Is a Skynet scenario plausible?

[Ksandra]

I fully believe japan will make sex-crazed robots that turn all humans into slaves for metal on skin orgies within my lifetime.

[mallister]

we can hope, right?

[Cantih]

I fully believe japan will make sex-crazed robots that turn all humans into slaves for metal on skin orgies within my lifetime.

More likely
http://myanimelist.net/manga/1143/Yuria_100_Shiki
(AI in sexbots is a baaaaaaaaad idea)

[Jakson]

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/Ac...9977-25426.gif
I'm sure many women (and men) in the world would be simply terrified.

[Abandon]

I fully believe japan will make sex-crazed robots that turn all humans into slaves for metal on skin orgies within my lifetime.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y36...awesomecat.jpg

[ronin sparthos]

More likely
http://myanimelist.net/manga/1143/Yuria_100_Shiki
(AI in sexbots is a baaaaaaaaad idea)

Nothing like an AI classifying your sexual performance as insufficient.

[Rhyis.]

Tweak those lugnuts harder next time.

[Abandon]

that may be the greatest cat of all time

[Kang]

Catbot come to enslave us?

[Cantih]

Naw, I'd worry about real cat uplifts first.

[myreality]

Thought this would fit well here.

http://www.popsci.com/science/articl...brain-behavior

Chris Eliasmith has spent years trying to figure out the ingredients and precise recipe for building a brain. He even has a book coming out in February--called “How to Build A Brain”--describing gray matter, dendritic connections and other brainy anatomy. As he was writing it, it occurred to him that he might want to demonstrate it. So he built Spaun, the most complex simulation of a functioning brain built to date.
Spaun, which stands for Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network, is a computer model that can recognize numbers, remember them, figure out numeric sequences, and even write them down with a robotic arm. It’s a major leap in brain simulation, because it’s the first model that can actually emulate behaviors while also modeling the physiology that underlies them.
The program consists of 2.5 million simulated neurons organized into subsystems that are designed to resemble specific brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex, basil ganglia and thalamus. It has a virtual eye and a robotic arm, and can perform a series of tasks, each different from one another.
It’s different from other artificial brains like IBM’s Watson in that it’s designed to mimic behavior, not simply solve for function in the best possible way. Where IBM wants Watson to do one thing supremely well--search--Big Blue isn’t interested in how it’s done. Other IBM brain simulations, like the massive Blue Brain Project, can mimic brain spatial structure and connectivity--but they can’t mimic how this structure is tied to behavior, Eliasmith explained in an interview.
“These artificial brains don’t actually do anything. They don’t see, they don’t remember, they don’t recognize objects,” he said. “They sit there and generate complex voltage patterns, but those complex voltage patterns aren’t tied to behavior.”

[Stanislaw]

Frankly I'm surprised nobody has mentioned The Two Faces Of Tomorrow yet.

Great novel, btw.

[tripnotic]

http://2045.com/images/milestones_en.png

http://2045.com/images/roadmap_small_en.jpg

[archibaldcrane]

ROFL at "AVATAR B"

good luck with that robotfags

[archibaldcrane]

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0804/3.jpg

[archibaldcrane]

I bet James Cameron is pissed that he named his movie series something that couldn't be copyrighted, should've taken after George Lucas with DROID and named them TAR(d)s.

[Kang]

http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0804/3.jpg

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__...0f/Kraangb.png

[BaneTheBrawler]

When I read B, I think of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex type stuff.

[Kang]

I actually don't mind the new animated series. But the movie is gonna suck big time.

[Cantih]

When I read B, I think of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex type stuff.

It's the "easiest" thing out of all of them to do. All you really need is to translate brain to nerve signals to run the body. Cyberbrains are much harder, we need a much better understanding of how the mind works before we can start merging it with things like memory or processing.

But that does bring up a good point. If we get brain virtualization/uploading before AI, odds are that any AI after will run on "human OS", so the only real distinction will be if a personality originally came from a biological body or not. (While this means the AI will be more relatable than contemporary hardware based AI, it also means since it'd be more human it'd be about as capable of being an irrational dick like we are.)