![]() But they would scare the hell out of epidemiologists who understand that parasites don’t need to be smart to be dangerous. We walk through a gauntlet of bot-controlled sensors every time we step into a public space and the sensors are proliferating.īots are at best narrow AI, nothing that would make a cleric remotely nervous. Next time you are on a downtown street, contemplate the bot-controlled video cameras watching you, or the bots tracking your cellphone and sniffing at your Bluetooth-enabled gizmos. We are visible to bots even when we are not at our computers. At current growth rates, bots will be the majority users of the Net by 2010. ![]() Businesses rely on them to automate essential processes, and of course bots running on zombie computers are responsible for the tsunami of spam and malware plaguing Internet users worldwide. Highway-bots collect your tolls, read your license plate and report you if you have an outstanding violation.īots are proliferating because they are so very useful. Call 411? A bot gave you the number and connected the call. ![]() Apply for a mortgage lately? A bot determined your FICA score and thus whether you got the loan. ![]() The agents of this unwelcome revolution aren’t strong AIs, but “bots”– autonomous programs that have insinuated themselves into the Internet and thus into every corner of our lives. Forget about HAL-like robots enslaving humankind a few decades from now, the takeover is already underway. ![]()
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