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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (254793)	7/2/2014 11:22:39 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542019

Watson is like a baby, just a few minutes old. But the article I linked earlier says this about it: Watson is already capable of storing far more medical information than doctors, and unlike humans, its decisions are all evidence-based and free of cognitive biases and overconfidence. It's also capable of understanding natural language, generating hypotheses, evaluating the strength of those hypotheses, and learning — not just storing data, but finding meaning in it. You say this: Don't you think that if robots go beyond being a tool for us humans that we will destroy them? Who will determine that? Many of us have come to believe that fossil fuels will end up being very bad for us, however miraculous an energy source they have been since they were first used. Do you think that we will get their use under control and avoid their bad consequences? Personally, I doubt it, but we'll see. I think robots are a wonderful thing for us, another advancement in the creation of solutions to problems faced by mankind. As such they are a gift of man's creation - man's intelligence. They should be embraced not feared. Not feared because they will take jobs away from humans - which is where this discussion all started I believe. Sure, I agree, they are a "wonderful thing." But that doesn't mean that they are only a "wonderful thing," that they don't have a serious downside that must be addressed. IMHO, many humans have this wonderful faculty for not seeing the downside possibilities of our inventions. This is especially true when they have vested interests in seeing the upside. Have to go now, maybe more later.