Are there potential problems related to artificial technology?
The following article from NASA is an excellent introduction into the new era of intelligent systems! INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS by Edward Rosenfeld Over the coming decade, robotics will enter more and more into our daily lives and experiences. Whereas in the past, we might read about robots or see them in news reports, now we trip over robot dogs and other cyberpets in our homes and use robots to mow the lawn. In the three to five year time frame, expect to make use of robots that make other robots or simply replicate themselves. Robots are already searching disaster areas for survivors. One company believes we will soon “wear” robots. Meantime, Stephen Hawking is but the latest to warn that robots might replace us. One of the features of the recent International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) was a competition that pitted teams of robots at the task of searching for human survivors of urban disasters. Many of the contestants showed real progress in robotic abilities. Su
