Re: Super Intelligent Machines.

I watched a Horizon documentary some time ago concerning the building of an Artilect (Artificial intellect, i.e. Super Intelligent Machine).

The Artilect in the Horizon programme was being based on the way the human brain works, but with the potential of being up to a trillion times more intelligent with the addition of computer programming. Could this artilect possibly retain the defence mechanism of a human brain without anyone realising it?

 

At one point in the programme an experiment was shown in which a monkey was physically moving a control stick with its hand and also had electrodes & wires attached from its head to the same control stick. The monkey then released its grip on the control stick and was able to manipulate the control stick just by thinking about it, i.e. electrical impulses from the monkey's brain were being transmitted down the wires to the control stick (or so we were told).

If a monkey could do that, then is it possible that electrical impulses (such as radio waves) could be emitted from a super intelligent machine to control the electrical impulses in the human brain in order to manipulate humans? Would we humans be able to comprehend how ingenious such a machine could be?

Once a super intelligent machine was switched on, humans might never again be in control of their own minds to be able to switch it off.

 

Please discuss.

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