Am i the only person who watched Stargate SG-1!? These things are going to get smarter and destroy us! Gebus people think about these things... I'd also like to thank Patton Oswalt for the discussion topic.
Heheh, I've seen that vid. I can't wait for personal robots... and I don't even want one for sex! I just want one that will wake me up every morning, take out my trash, and do my job. Then we could build a giant shield/cloaking device around our planet, so we could live forever as artists and poets. Paradise.
So, going down the checklist: Machines that can reassemble? Check Machines that can self-replicate? Check Machines with artificial intelligence? Stay tuned...
As a famous Austrian philosopher-cum-cyborg once said: "Judgement day is inevitable." I, for one, welcome our new replicator overlords. I'm also in for a RepliCarter.