With recent developments in neural networks, we're starting to see the beginnings of real Artificial Intelligence. Computers have started to learn on their own, they can "see" and understand what they're seeing, they can "listen" and understand what's being said. Not that these are entirely new developments, but they've become enormously more sophisticated in the past few years. That's why self-driving cars are now possible, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. All the kinds of repetitive, robotic tasks done by humans can now be done by robots instead. The dream of being free from menial labor is becoming a very real possibility, so long as society as a whole is proactive and intelligent about how all this plays out. If we're not, it's just going to be yet another way a privileged few exploit the masses.

Now there's this popular meme about how an AI goes "crazy" and decides to kill off the human race. I don't believe an AI is going to just do that on its own, the programmer would have to design it to kill people, but who would be crazy enough to want to develop that kind of technology? Why, the NSA, of course! And they named it SKYNET, they named it after the AI that tries to kill off the human race in the Terminator movies! How psychotic is that?

(Truthstream Media) The Daily Express is reporting today that scientists are using electromagnets to literally alter (and thus control) people’s thoughts and beliefs.

Before we start talking about how this technology isn’t new, here’s the gist:

A bizarre experiment claims to be able to make Christians no longer believe in God and make Britons open their arms to migrants in experiments some may find a threat to their values…

Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), researchers safely shut down certain groups of neurones in the brains of volunteers.

TMS, which is used to treat depression, involves placing a large electromagnetic coil against the scalp which creates electric currents that stimulate nerve cells in the region of the brain involved in mood control.

Researchers found the technique radically altered religious perceptions and prejudice… Belief in God was reduced almost by a third, while participants became 28.5 per cent less bothered by immigration numbers.