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Originally Posted by dyna mo
I'm glad we're friends CD. i thought i was having fun in your thread. i posted my answer to your topic question and included what i thought was super fun reading on the exact subject matter. for those contributions i was called a naysayer (a negative person) lacking a sense of humor.
i'm at a loss here on why this went in this direction. what's difference i guess.
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Perhaps 'nay-sayer' was a poor choice of words then? I tend to use that term every so often when someone jumps in a thread with the age-old "It'll never happen". I suppose I was hoping that my inclusion of "you've obviously been paid off by our future overlords" would tip you off that I was having a bit of sport with you.
Instead you went from zero-to-bitch in under ten seconds on me.
Okay we're friends again. I invite you to check out those links I just posted, found by googling (oh god!) "Is artificial intelligence possible". There are of course thousands more links in the results, and much of it supports what you/your guy was saying.
But this debate over true AI might be a falacious one anyway, because the real question might be something more like 'is it possible to program a computer (or super computer network) to control our lives?' -- and to that I'm going to have to side with yes, yes it is. Will we all have chips in our heads, hands, etc, and will our activities and behaviors and buying habits be tracked, recorded, and more importantly...
controlled?
It might not take a true sentient AI to do all that.