Oh, come on! Tell me someone in the military has at least seen Terminator 1, 2, and 3! Don’t we ever learn? That whole thing about history repeating itself…even if it is a fictional history…developed by Hollywood…with, what are now considered cheesy special effects…
But it could happen!
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/05/army_tests_figh.html
I did just read a short story about intelligent cars that started to revolt against their drivers…taking them to healthier restaurants instead of fast food drive throughs, rebelling against politicians who refused to pass ethanol bills. I also just read this article:
Two machines talking to each other, hashing out some semblance of intelligence. Apparently these chat bots are good enough that lots of folks have interacted with these programs and were fooled into thinking they were actually real people. Of course, considering how some people chat with nothing but emoticons these days, that might not be such a hard thing to pull off.
But what happens when our machines start getting smarter than us? And what happens if they start to get opinionated? Do you really want your toaster to tell you to use the non-fat butter?
I see that smile.