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Singularity - Are we working ourselves into slaves, or pets?

Singularity? You must have heard. Otherwise you wouldn't be here. Cats videos are more fun to watch. Something that are more intelligent than human will show up one day. Artificial intelligent might be it. It may not that impressive today, but I have no doubt about this. It will be surpassing human. Of cause in an ideal condition that we are not going to nuke ourselves back to stone age, or create a supper bug that kills most of us that we have to start all over again. What is intelligent? Here is an interesting definition:     F = T ∇ Sτ - a Force that Maximises the Future Freedom of Action       You can hear Alex Wissner-Gross TED talk - A new equation for intelligencel . A quote from the speech: "...we've had the whole concept of cybernetic revolt in reverse. It's not that machines first become intelligent and then megalomania-cal and try to take over the world. It's quite the opposite, that the urge to take control of all possible futures is a more