Al Qaeda and other Luddite fascists don't understand what's happening. They don't have a chance. It's like the opening scene of 2001 A Space Odyssey with Chimpoids versus Hal. They don't have a chance. Nature has passed them by. Ted Kaczynski understood what's happening, but the chimpoids put him in gaol.
No, Mq., nature will win over machines for the next few centuries; machines may never process better than humans. DenBeste, a former QCOM engineer, says it well but, for crying out loud, he defines prolix:
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....no amount of digital hardware, no matter how fast, parallel or well connected, can ever really be intelligent in the way that we are, with the degree of capability and versatility we have. I cannot say for certain that's the case, but I have a strong suspicion that it is. There will eventually be a computer system which can beat any human at chess. It could be built now, except that no one cares to spend the money. But that system won't also be able to drive a car, write poetry, laugh at a joke, watch a movie and then summarize it later, or do all the other kinds of things that human chess grandmasters can do in addition to playing chess.
Our brains are parallel computers; machines are not yet parallel in any significant sense, and they must be if they are to reach beyond several immutable physical constants towards artificial intelligence.
A scary thought.
Ergo, unsophisticated terrorists can learn how to do terror much like a baby learns how to talk, etc. Motivation and commitment not to mention zeal are the keys, in my view.
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