Son says that by 2047, a single computer chip will have an IQ of 10,000

Seems like a bad idea. The computer is going to make calculations like "How many people can the world sustain", then make decisions on who to kill to keep that population low. It will anticipate people that want to destroy it because of this decision and start killing them off. As more and more people want revenge on this computer, it becomes more and more like a terminator scenario. The only difference is, the computer will calculate our reaction before we do and make preemptive strikes. The computer may just kill off all humans before we even realize what it's doing.

Heck...it might be making these calculations 100 of years in the future. For example...it does the math, realizes that in 150 years when it starts to have to kill people, humans will rebel against it, so instead of waiting 149 years, it decides to just take us all out today because it's going to eventually happen anyway and it calculates its more humane to do it now because it only has to kill 7.125 billion people instead of 50 billion people 150 years from now.
 
peilthetraveler said:
Seems like a bad idea. The computer is going to make calculations like "How many people can the world sustain", then make decisions on who to kill to keep that population low. It will anticipate people that want to destroy it because of this decision and start killing them off. As more and more people want revenge on this computer, it becomes more and more like a terminator scenario. The only difference is, the computer will calculate our reaction before we do and make preemptive strikes. The computer may just kill off all humans before we even realize what it's doing.

Heck...it might be making these calculations 100 of years in the future. For example...it does the math, realizes that in 150 years when it starts to have to kill people, humans will rebel against it, so instead of waiting 149 years, it decides to just take us all out today because it's going to eventually happen anyway and it calculates its more humane to do it now because it only has to kill 7.125 billion people instead of 50 billion people 150 years from now.
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"A Taste of Armageddon"
Star Trek (circa 1967)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
 
I think whoever wrote this has been living in a very sheltered world. My cats are smarter than most people, and I've made scripts that out smart well intentioned but fool hardy junior network engineers.
 
peilthetraveler said:
Seems like a bad idea. The computer is going to make calculations like "How many people can the world sustain", then make decisions on who to kill to keep that population low. It will anticipate people that want to destroy it because of this decision and start killing them off. As more and more people want revenge on this computer, it becomes more and more like a terminator scenario. The only difference is, the computer will calculate our reaction before we do and make preemptive strikes. The computer may just kill off all humans before we even realize what it's doing.

Heck...it might be making these calculations 100 of years in the future. For example...it does the math, realizes that in 150 years when it starts to have to kill people, humans will rebel against it, so instead of waiting 149 years, it decides to just take us all out today because it's going to eventually happen anyway and it calculates its more humane to do it now because it only has to kill 7.125 billion people instead of 50 billion people 150 years from now.
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To avoid people rebelling against it,it could formulate highly infectious viruses and release them into the population.

This would cull the weak and elderly and the people would assume it was a natural disaster.

The masses would ingest life saving 'medicines' that could be doctored to make them vulnerable for the next virus and the cycle would continue.

Genius....
 
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