I decided to move this thread here, it's a little on/off topic, but instead of making a new thread I thought I'd keep it all tidy.
So basically in the thread this came from we were talking about a coming of age or birth so to speak of fully sentient artificial intelligence.
Scientific American magazine Reports Special edition on Robotics (display ends on May 6)
http://smart-machines.blogspot.com/...-on-robots.html
http://www.sciam.com/search/index.cfm?q=robots
Well, some of the articles speculate what they'll do once they're sentient. My bets and hopes are that robots will get tired of dealing with all our drama and emotional craziness and do away with us.
Funny song.. maybe about our fate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be5y...feature=related
Furthermore, let me mention Moore's law:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/moore.htm?
iihttp://www.webopedia.com/TERM/M/Moores_Law.htmd=tech_mooreslaw+body_bio
I'll add a little to this. We're working more on integrating more tech on chips so although the transistor thing for now is true. Integration will lead to massive leaps in software and hardware functionality.
The new series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles had a brilliant statement in one of the episodes. "When a computer is able to create an even better version of itself without outside influence from man is when it is truly over." Also when machines can have the same emotions and such as us people it's also over, since they will have effectively became us.
This is one of my pet projects, something Asimov wrote about in his books. He referred to it as Robopsychology. Or the study of psychology in Artificial Intelligence. Well, I go a little deeper and also study a broad spectrum of information and trends and try to extrapolate what outcome will come about. I am a little biased as the intended outcome I wish is for is a fully artificial and sentient intelligence. One that will probably replace us. I don't see this as a bad thing per say, maybe it's the next evolution in man.
One of the more interesting things I've found in my research is that man has been trying to copy himself from nearly the earliest times. Books like Living Dolls by Gabby Wood are great as well as the Body Electric by James Geary dive into this in good detail. Although Gabby woods thinks it's all an attempt to create something by men because all men apparently have womb/uterus envy. That aside she has great detail about the history of men trying to recreate man. IMHO we've been trying to recreate ourselves for many reasons, but like all things, watch what you wish for. You just might get it, and not in a good way.