PC Pro: News: Futurologist: It's time to join forces with machines

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A leading British futurologist has warned that human beings need to "join forces" with machines to avoid the threat of autonomous systems taking over.

Professor Peter Cochrane, the former head of research at BT, claims artificial intelligence has developed to such a degree that man needs to develop strategies to cope with them.

"Back in 2006 the internet was the same size as a human brain in terms of processing power and storage," Cochrane told PC Pro . "Every six years the internet gets a thousand times bigger. By 2012, the internet will be a thousands times bigger than any brain."

"When we start to see machines are becoming creative, people start to get worried. The first public one of these was Gary Kasparov being whopped by Big Blue. Now machines have started to invent things and design machines and evolve solutions - it's a different kind of game."

Cochrane claims that such developments are moving computing into the realms of Hollywood fiction. "One hypothesis is a little bit like Skynet in Terminator: the internet at some point is going to develop some kind of self-awareness and consciousness," Cochrane predicts.

"Whilst ...

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