Augustis Kanadas Metsaülikoolis viibiv Skype ja Kazaa üks asutajatest Jaan Tallinn on praegu Austraalias, kus ta andis intervjuu 'The Age' ajalehele.

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Jaan Tallinn argues that human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future.

Jaan Tallinn argues that human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future.

One of the founding engineers of Skype and Kazaa is in Australia to sound a warning to the human race: fasten your seatbelts, as machines are becoming so intelligent that they could pose an existential threat.

Jaan Tallinn argues human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future. Machines are becoming smarter than we are, but Tallinn warns that if we are not careful this could lead to a "sudden global ecological catastrophe".

It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas, they will go extinct.

This sounds like science fiction stuff, but consider the breadth of domains where computers have already caught up to - and then dominated - humans.

http://www.theage.com.au/techn...