Humans become 'pets' in rise of the machines: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

I don't trust banks. I believe when the robots rise up, ATMs will lead the charge.

Technology replacing people. The magic of the marketplace at work...

Machines function well in a stable, controlled environment.

But they are landfill in climate change.

'computers' have been intelligent since 1985. That they refuse to show us the proof...is because the time to take over the human race is next year. 2012 - rise of the machines.

When I consider the lives my cats lead, I start to wonder where I can sign up for that deal.

lol

Perry Farrell and Stephen Perkins were in both bands though, so it's easy to make that mistake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkmtweNQ-U

And it never seems to get any closer. The things we have that work are big databases, or simple networks of simulated "neurons" solving dumb-but-dense-with-work problems that are suitable for computers.

For a machine to approach human intelligence, it's going to have to have as many separate functional parts as a human brain does - it is unlikely in the extreme to be an undifferentiated mass of generic neurons. And we just don't know enough about brains yet to make such a thing.

I think the computers he's talking about will have something other than what we'd consider intelligence, and if you think psychopaths and corporations are bad, wait until you see something that has no built-in, deep-rooted systems opposing its primary goal-seeking mechanism. I can't think of a reason in the world that such things would have such complicated emotional relationships with animals for a concept such as "pet" to have anything more than a purely intellectual meaning.

That is to say, they're about as likely to want us for pets as we are to want penis worms for pets.

as they will most likely not have one of our main reasons for psychopathic behavior, organized religion.

... that machines will find any use for "pets".

if I could be fed well, and have one of those comfy beds with my name embroidered on it.