December 8, 2007 at 6:34 pm
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From news.com:
A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal information from its unsuspecting conversation partners is making the rounds in Russian chat forums, according to security software firm PC Tools.
Roughtype.com chips in as well:
Could it be that the Turing Test has finally been beaten – by a sex machine, no less – and that a true artificial intelligence is on the loose? Maybe so, but, as I indicate in the title to this post, this breakthrough will, like Barry Bonds’s homer record, have to carry an asterisk.
Ironic yet thought provoking…
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December 8, 2007 at 6:21 pm
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As Eric Drexler puts it:
I’m pleased to report that the Technology Roadmap for Productive Nanosystems has finally been released. This marks the completion of the first broad, multidisciplinary effort to explore how current laboratory techniques for atomically precise fabrication can be extended, step by step, toward increasingly advanced products and capabilities.
The roadmap specifies the time until macro scale atomically precise productive nanosystem (APPN) arrays will appear to be in the 15-30+ year time frame.
Some terms from the documents:
- APT = atomically precise technologies
- APM = atomically precise manufacturing
- APPN = atomically precise productive nanosystems
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