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From: josh@klaatu.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: ultra intelligent machines
Message-ID: <Jan.16.15.23.14.1990.721@klaatu.rutgers.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 90 20:23:22 GMT
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>"ultra intelligent machines when they evolve, will keep us on as pets!"

a) read Mind Children by Hans Moravec

b) ultra-intelligent machines will probably begin as being faster
copies of ourselves, and grow from there.  They would probably
regard a "natural" human as we would an uneducated child--i.e.
as a "person" but one who needed a lot of help and who was not
fully responsible.

--JoSH