21st April 2003, 6:03 PM
Maybe it was a bit ambitious. Oh well, when that IS made all we need to do is create a massive army of robots that can combine themselves. What could be the harm in that? So long as they are programmed with limiters to prevent EVER thinking about their own existance, it won't matter how smart they get.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)