
can this ever happen?
JOHN MARKOFF of The New York Times wrote an article “Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man”
“Their concern is that further advances could create profound social disruptions and even have dangerous consequences.
As examples, the scientists pointed to a number of technologies as diverse as experimental medical systems that interact with patients to simulate empathy, and computer worms and viruses that defy extermination and could thus be said to have reached a “cockroach” stage of machine intelligence.”NYT