Science will destroy us all.

Stopping it, no problem. Stopping THEM is the problem. The army of robots.

Oi!

I'm not saying I want one for a personal butler, man. I'm just saying "way to get it right, Darpa". Maybe we'll crack real AI in the next five years too.

Then we're fucked.

no worries.

the 3 rules shall protect us!

Until the MIT grad student who actually makes a compy smart forgets to program them in.

*in Ahnold voice/accent*

"The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."

We're about 11 years late now, but we'll get there sooner or later it seems.

Apparently someone's working on that kind of idea - robots that interact and 'swarm' independantly...
Stupid idea

Big Dog is firmly within the Uncanny Valley for me. It just never sufficiently stopped looking like two guys in black tights hunched over. Very weird.

Yet technology will save us.

http://www.qsleeper.com/detailv.html