These are prototypes of military robots. It’s awesome what they can do in robotics today but I don’t really like the consequences.

I think computers are better than humans in playing chess now. So what, no fun anymore! – Let computers do some more useful things, like keeping the household or washing our clothes … or writing software (what one of my school teacher predicted  for the year 2000, haha).

Kramnik played a six game match against the computer program Deep Fritz in Bonn, Germany from November 25 to December 5, 2006, losing 2-4 to the machine, with 2 losses and 4 draws. He received 500,000 Euros
for playing and would have gotten another 500,000 Euros had he won the
match. Deep Fritz version 10 ran on a computer containing two Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs. Kramnik received a copy of the program in mid-October for testing, but the final version included an updated opening book.^[3] Except for limited updates to the opening book, the program may not be changed during the course of the match. The endgame tablebases used by the program were restricted to 5 pieces^[4] even though a complete 6 piece tablebase is widely available.

[See Wikipedia, Vladimir Kramnik, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Kramnik (optional description here) (as of Dec. 10, 2006, 01:04 GMT).]

“We are not scanning all those books to be read by people,” explained one of my hosts after my talk. “We are scanning them to be read by an AI.”

Das bei Siggi Becker gelesen und jetzt irgendwie keine Lust zu schlafen. Kölsch trinke ich nicht, vielleicht einen Absinth

Once nonbiological intelligence gets a foothold in our brains, it will grow exponentially. As we get to the 2030s, human beings will have biological brains enhanced with more powerful nonbiological thought processes.

Ray Kurzweil denkt und erfindet eine – zwar spannende – aber auch düstere Zukunft für die Spezies Homo. Er könnte in mancher Hinsicht sogar recht haben, schon heute verwenden wir Handys, PDAs und Gadgets um unser Hirn mit Informationen zu versorgen. Die ersten RFID-Chips werden schon heute in Tier und Mensch implantiert. Soweit ist es dann nicht mit der Idee die Kommunikation mit dem Gehirn direkter zu gestalten.

So bleibt uns nur abwarten und Tee trinken, aber immer bedenken: We are merging.