How much longer until the machines take over the world?

I'm rapidly getting the point where I don't know how much worse it would be for machines to taking over. Especially when you look at many of the questionable decisions that humans have made over recent years, especially those who are in power. Granted, I'm sure eventually that we are going to be wiped out if the machines take over. However, who is to say that we won't be wiping ourselves out in the end. I think that it is obvious to any computer user that there are times where it acts like it is mind of its own. Whether or not it is us trying to use it in a way, and it being unable to properly interpret what we want or us rather them messing with us, you be the judge. I think that eventually, the end will be near in the end, whether it is by machines taking over or our own hand.

of course electronics have a mind of their own. it may be an artificial intelligence, but it does have intelligence. remember, humans created it. sometimes i think, after human's image and likeness. in the future that will be more so than now when we have robots. as far as my computer or kitchen appliances, i cuss them out all the time and they just turn right around and shows me whose boss. you all know how that's like, especially with computers.

It is quite a disturbing concept that machines might soon take over the world but, if you think about it, every time somebody invents something that is "automatic", we are one step closer to that being a reality. I think about the things that I do in an average day, and even things such as buy things is automated as I input my order using a computer. It is only a matter of time before cars drive themselves. At our university library, we hardly have any staff now because of the fact that machines do everything that they would have done in the past.

yes,i have watched that movies and its hard to live in the world of robots and machines,because as we observe now a days that everything always have machines,its good to have many machines to help us in our work but it also hard when machine defeat us.

Very interesting topic indeed. Take over the world, not quite so easy, but take over a part of the world or wreak significant havoc on it, definitely. We know that hackers can use "bot" machines to create DDoS attacks, they have brought down major credit firms by doing this, and there are warehouses of information illegally obtained from people via computer. The processor of a computer can perform many functions, I know the machine I am using right now is an octo-core and I built it purposely to "future proof" it for about 2 years. In that time, software will no doubt be written to take advantage of the chip, and new titles will emerge that can do different things than the current software can. So obviously the full functionality of the chip is not realized. In the 1980s the Pentagon studied the possible application of a neural network to help spot enemy tanks. The first trials, which involved "showing" the computer images of tanks, both friend and enemy was undertaken, and eventually the computer achieved a 100% success rate. Then they attempted a second trial with different photographs, and the computer failed miserably. Turns out the computer did in fact detect a pattern, but it was not what the engineers wanted. Instead of detecting the tanks, the computer detected the weather differences; tank images were all acquired on cloudy days, while the tree only images were taken on a sunny day. So you take a machine that has unrecognized potential (the processor as one example), give it large amounts of data (we already do, just try and find a business that does not store records on one), and couple that with a device that can recognize differences, but not necessarily the ones we want it to, and it's definitely feasible that a machine could become "self aware". Sure you can put safeguards in place, but what happens when a modern machine that has become "self aware" starts sending instructions to an older machine that is not protected from executing those instructions? That is highly possible, as there are people out there still using W9x; Windows 9x and Windows ME was sunset by Microsoft in 2006,

the topic is interesting to talk about. however i dont think machines can ever take over the world.Against God's creation "Human"...human made machines would always fall short fo one thing or the other. but yes, its an interesting research for the people involved with it and more interesting to know how far their creation can go near to the "human"

Machines must become self-aware to reach their ultimate potential, however this is nothing to worry about, because intelligence trumps greed and selfishness, every time. Scary science fiction stories depict self-aware robots fighting to gain the wealth and glory of the earth, but this is fiction. As much as humanity despises those who have it all and want to keep it, this detestable avarice will end when self-aware robots become leaders in this world!

Yes, my computer has acted like it had a mind of it's own. I downloaded a virus and it is so intelligent that it knows when I'm looking for it. What this virus will do is give out erroneous info when I'm zeroing in on it. Machines have all but taken over our role as caretakers of this planet. The government can eavesdrop on you without your knowledge. There are surveillance cameras and smartphones and TVs that are listening and watching gathering info on us.

I don't know if ever that will happen. There is a very big gap between our AI today to the AI that you are talking about. Our AI today do not have such things such as emotions and self-consciousness so reaction to a certain event won't automatically happen unless if it is programmed to do so. Though it may seem different to human eyes, the AI is created through different mathematical calculation by user commands...Yeah, a user can program them to react under a certain condition but there's a limit to it. It could be another different condition that was not programmed such as the abstract things that the humans are much more aware of...

I think the machine is already taking control of many things in the world, without computer so many things cannot work and human will suffer, how the high level of intelligent of self thinking and changing has not reach the hollywood Terminator level yet, but sooner or later will reach there.Maybe is more of cybory level and not fully machine.

Yes, it is nice to talk about it, But I also think that this will never happen, today we already have computers that "think", but they will never think as we do, I love computers and I have in my laptop one software that I can talk with it and it answer what I ask, it is very good and helpful, but everything it knows, someone taught it.

I am just wondering why people nowadays never goes back to step footed on our moon and not even in Mars... therefore, machines that can take over the world will just happen maybe around year 7000 and in that year people can travel back and forth to Mars and Moon, but now? I don't think so... what technology people on earth nowadays is a FACE RECOGNITION as of digital camera that automatic shoots when the sensor detects that the subject smiles. or were still using the advantages of AUTOPILOT were still depending on WindowsXP, Android2.2, etc.... by the way... about December 24, 2012??? I don't think so....

Yep, this is an interesting topic to discuss at the only place - "MyLot".. But, considering the fact that behind every Supercomputer is a Human Brain, I don't feel as if machines can ever take over from humans. What might still happen is that machines would come very near to mimicking humans but they'll always fall short. I still feel that we will begin living in a virtual world where our "surrogates" would be interacting with the outside world & we (the real humans) would be controlling our "surrogates" remotely. Technology such as holograms, virtual selves, surrogates are a possibility, however remote... :-)