
I not only welcome our future robot overlords, I work with teams to build them.
Of course this line is a little tongue in cheek, but many people talk about automation systems as if the people who build them are unwittingly (or perhaps in full knowledge) building the future skynet that will bring about humanity’s last days. I’ve always fallen into the star-trek camp of automation, where computers help to reveal the vastness of what lies beyond our current limitations in a world ironically abundant with scarcity, rather than the 2001 vision of the future where HAL attempts to murder his crew because of a programming conflict.
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