On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 12:11:09 GMT, jeff
wrote:

Ed Huntress wrote:

What they need is a programmed motivation to acquire, grow, or procreate.
With that, and the ability to learn on their own, we'll have a potential new
species of life.

By bet is that the threshhold will be passed when we teach how to have
sex -- maybe through a Firewire port. Once the computers learn about that,
we're all in trouble.

Yep, we won't be able to get them to do a damned thing then.

They were "invented" long ago & have "evolved" a bit since.
--
Cliff