better?
I'm gonna have to go a little Trekky on everyone, because it's how I figured out a little about this AI stuff. I think the one thing we can all agree on is that AI is wanted to trouble shoot our problems quicker and more efficiently. Where the controversy will arise is the types of problems we ave. Some AI won't need emotion to complete their jobs (factory worker, driver) whereas some will (human interface). Because of the diversity of the jobs, AI will have to be just as diverse. The problem factor that scares people is when AI can be better than the human. Already computers whoop our ass at math and other number crunching tasks, but we control what it does so it doesn't scare us. I believe that AI, even in a humanoid form, won't be threatening because it will only do what it's told. However, those AI that can make decisions on their own can pose a threat, and scare the masses. sargentlard said "the A.I is truly superior to human intelligence" if emotion is taken out of their programming. I agreed at one time, but Star Trek made a cool point about being human. Without our flaws we wouldn't be capable of the things we are now. In one episode the crew of TNG came across a colony of people who had taken the emotion out of their genetic make up, eliminating hate and anger. They also genetically altered their children so there wouldn't be any handycap citizens....but to what end? Jordy ended up saving the planted with technology designed for his visor to help him see...if he was never blind, and the visor was never made, they couldn't have saved the planet. So yeah, human flaw seems like something we want to do without, but it makes us who we are, and changing it would ruin that. Emotion is critical, and will always put us above machines...but like I mentioned before, once we're able to simulate that (and I'm not sure we can.....ever, at least in the way we posess it) we'll have problems...
To sum that up, an emotionless machine will never top humans because our emotions aren't mathematical. IF emotions were possible to "put" in machines that's when we should all shit ourselves...
I feel like this was all covered in the movie AI.