squalyl (./12077) :
le développement de skynet a commencé

http://www.slate.fr/lien/34165/robots-futur-internet-machines

Ah ben tiens, voici justement une autre news (moins d’une semaine) sur la même thématique (qui n’est que vaguement esquissée dans l’article Slate) : la Singularité.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138-1,00.html (attention, 5 pages !)
TL;DR:

Kurzweil puts the date of the Singularity […] at 2045. In that year, he estimates, given the vast increases in computing power and the vast reductions in the cost of same, the quantity of artificial intelligence created will be about a billion times the sum of all the human intelligence that exists today.
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Once hyper-intelligent artificial intelligences arise, armed with advanced nanotechnology, they'll really be able to wrestle with the vastly complex, systemic problems associated with aging in humans. Alternatively, by then we'll be able to transfer our minds to sturdier vessels such as computers and robots. He and many other Singularitarians take seriously the proposition that many people who are alive today will wind up being functionally immortal.
[…]In Kurzweil's future, biotechnology and nanotechnology give us the power to manipulate our bodies and the world around us at will, at the molecular level. Progress hyperaccelerates, and every hour brings a century's worth of scientific breakthroughs. We ditch Darwin and take charge of our own evolution. The human genome becomes just so much code to be bug-tested and optimized and, if necessary, rewritten. Indefinite life extension becomes a reality; people die only if they choose to. Death loses its sting once and for all.