disturbing thought.. =., what's your take? Options

[DivA]

question.. =.

who controls who in this day & age - human or machine? *ponders* i've been thinking about this one today after seeing koyaanisqatsi earlier today; it's true that humans brought the machine into existence, but will the machine surpass & control our lives - especially in the future? do we still have control of our future? -.O *shivers* well, i'll toss this one out there for ATHQ to play with - what's your take on this?

useless fact: koyaanisqatsi translates as - life out of balance (fascinating film btw - highly recommended for those curious to learn how civilization is currently working...behind the scenes style, of course.. ^.-)

[Azrael]

Lol at the HAL and Skynet comments. Honestly, I think the progression of AI and computes is good and all, but I think that the programmers should take into consideration what can happen if the machines get too smart. I did a report on Artificial Intellgence for my CIS 390 class last semester and one of the articles that I used for my paper involved a Robot (even though it was tiny and buglike) that actually managed to escape from it's holding area. It was found later outside the building and was almost ran over in the parking lot. I think that if a Robot can learn how to escape like in the case above, then what is there to stop them(future prototypes of humanlike robots possibly) from harming someone in order to escape? We could be looking at the possibility of something like in the Matrix or Terminator.