Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 9th Sep 2007 21:06 UTC
Technologists and investors gather at the two-day Singularity Summit in San Francisco to discuss the benefits and risks of advancing artificial intelligence--and what to do in the event that machines one day out-think humans.
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>>With computers smarter than humans a large amount of society would be out of a job.<<
Sure, but the price of production of the goods made only by robots would be close to zero (except for the energy needed, but intelligent robots probably requires drexler-like nanotech which would allow also a very low cost for energy production).
>> The economy can't function like that because people need something to trade for the things they need.<<
Then we would invent a new economy..