• Question: will robots ever take over the world

    Asked by ktho2222 to Aoife, Dave, Matt, Tomasz on 20 Nov 2013.
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      David Christensen answered on 20 Nov 2013:

      I hope not ktho2222!

      Hopefully we have learn enough from sci-fi films to make sure we program robots so that they don’t get too smart to be able to beat us. If we can keep them stupid, then they probably can’t take over the world.

      Who knows?! Maybe they have already? How do you know I am not a robot?

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      Matthew Tomlinson answered on 20 Nov 2013:

      I hope not, I’d like to keep the Matrix and Terminator as fiction and not documentaries! I think we will keep developing better and better AI but I would like to think we’re smart enough to build in fail safes that would stop the robots from becoming too powerful.

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