"If you pair this with the hypothetical future scenario where intelligent computers have access to the tools with which to upgrade themselves, they could quickly overtake and exponentially distance themselves from the human race. They could come become private entities. What's more, they will be generating these connections so fast that what they up come with may perhaps be incomprehensible to us humans. They might create beautiful pieces of art or revolutionary ideas that we simply cannot understand."

insomniasexx and I were having a conversation about AI in a bar, on a layover in Tai Pei, at 2 am on our way out to Hong Kong last December with a South African and a guy from the states and it was interesting the different sides of whether or not artificial intelligence could actually be achieved and how it would affect things.

"What I find equal parts exciting and worrying is that a computers/robots potentially have the ability to create and figure out these possible combinations much quicker than a human can. They are limited presently by their ability to decipher what actually is a 'valid' or worthy combination, but I'm sure that will come."

I think they maybe kind of do this with cars already. I'm going to go off on a bit of a tangent here because the thought of robot's overtaking people is an interesting one. Sorry ahead of time if it's off point.

I think that at the point you reach the intelligence level a computer(robot) would start to have a much harder time functioning at such an efficient level of reasoning as when something starts to have its own mind, the mind tends to wander and the computer just makes logic based decisions "I/O" so as far as it digitally is concerned a computer still can only decide via on/off messages/switch. Also, a computer's internally memory, however big it may be, doesn't compare, information-wise, to the storage space of a human brain. A lot of how a computer works is by clearing old processes to make room for new one's.

"The reason computers use the base-2 system is because it makes it a lot easier to implement them with current electronic technology. You could wire up and build computers that operate in base-10, but they would be fiendishly expensive right now."

This ^ is where a computer's decision making would start to get scary I think :)