[extropy-chat] The emergence of AI

[Rik van Riel]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Keith Henson wrote:

> If an AI was smart enough to write a virus to take over machines and its
> intelligence was proportional to "cortical area" (processor cycles) and
> it "wanted" to get smart fast . . . . .

.... then it would not be able to fit its thoughts
through the internet and go the AI equivalent of
senile ;)

Rik
-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan