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Computers start learning; doomsday approaches?

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NewsBytes
NewsBytes Original post #1
Oct 7, 2010 at 12:52 PM
The New York Times posted an interesting piece on computers getting smarter, and that got us to thinking. Is "Skynet" really that close?
There were two parts to that thought. First was Skynet, a fictional AI from the Terminator films that on becoming self-aware decides that the only course of action for its survival is to end the human race. The second was whether such a thing was really that close.
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