Exponential Change and Robotics

The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence hosted the Singularity Summit 2007. One such guest speaker. Dr. Rodney Brooks, Robotics Professor from MIT talks about Singularity: A Period Not An Event. He points out that we over estimate the future in the short term and we under estimate the future in the long term. For example in 1783 the first hot air balloon was launched in France. Do you think anyone was saying, 'hey, do you think will be able to travel around the world in 24 hours'? He points out that Moores Law will lead to iPods in your pocket will hold 40,000,000 gigabytes by 2025. He also points out that a chip with 64 cores was just released each running independently on Linux. The U.S. Military had zero robots in action in 2001. By 2002 over 5,000 were being thrown through windows and dropping off roofs in the Middle East. What if we build an intelligence that doesn't know we are here and we won't know it's there? Rut-Roh?!