Apple co-founder warns robots will take over and we'll be their pets
Tue, 06/07/2011 - 9:17am
Worried that machines are becoming a little TOO intelligent? That they might someday take over, like something out of Terminator? Turns out you've got company. And that company is someone who should know.
Speaking to a group of business executives in Australia, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computers, warned that the rise of the machines may be inevitable:
"We're already creating the superior beings, I think we lost the battle to the machines long ago ... We're going to become the pets, the dogs of the house."
NOW he tells us!
Wozniak added:
"My comment about the machines winning the war is partly a joke, but we've accidentally already put so much in place that we can't get rid of from our lives. ... Once we have machines doing our high-level thinking, there's so little need for ourselves and you can't ever undo it—you can never turn them off."
"Partly" a joke? That doesn't make us feel that much better.
Maybe you should have thought this all out when you were back tinkering in that garage, Woz!
