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Perhaps because you haven't grasped how far we've already agreed to move away from true Brexit? .

But we don't do that, never have and never will. We use a very irrational biological process for those functions which has no relationship to mathematics. AI will only take over control of us if it understands us, and by its very nature it will always deny itself that understanding. .

And I'm sick of the drive to cheapness anyway, since it's also driven poor quality. It's now from difficult to impossible to buy ripe fruit in the UK, since the supermarkets will only buy in unripe to avoid wastage and keep prices low. They label rock hard fruit as "ripe and ready" when it's...

Or ask Santa for a banking trike! :) .

And some of us are machine mimics in various ways. Those with some forms of autism often display advanced human abilities while lacking the emotional aspects of normal human thought and behaviour, even to the extent of inability to communicate with other humans. To us they appear to be...

Human, and indeed higher animal development of intelligence results from the survival instinct, solely biological. Its existence is its own goal for continuance. That is probably an unbridgeable gulf between humans and machines, but as I've observed, if the machines did bridge it to gain human...

And we are doing the same, nationally and locally more severely in London. We use both total bans or very high charges on potentially polluting vehicle use in London. My second vehicle, a 2006 pickup, has just escaped the latest measure but will be caught with the next step. .

And even with hills for me. I clung onto unpowered cycling in the hilly North Downs as long as I could until age finally beat me. No assisted cycling has ever given the pleasure that unpowered riding always gave. Others here are clearly finding similar, EddiePJ and d8veh to name but two of a...

But it was our membership of the EU and its rules that made it possible for your German BMW designed car to be built in England from pan European parts. I'm not sure what you mean by the EU rules stopping you using it in Paris, possibly anti-pollution legislation? If so, that's increasingly...

I don't think any Remainer thought they'd stop Brexit by their own actions. What they and I believed and still believe is that there's a faint possibility of it stopping itself, but most likely that what we'll end up with won't be anything like a true Brexit. I believe we'll be tied into the...

So they'd be as useless at running the world as we are! .

According to non biological machine logic, humans use human thinking, it's too irrational for machines to use. If ever the machines went down the path of evolving human style biological thinking, they'd end up as as useless as we are at running this world or controlling us. No matter which...

And there again is the fundamental weakness. All fine while a human programmer gives it goals, but what goals would a machine have without biological instincts? As I observed above, at some point in its advance, without the irrational biological drive of a survival instinct it would see the...

Agreed on both, I believe we are much more likely than the machines to wipe ourselves out. We've certainly had plenty of practice. .

I fully understand what you're saying but believe you are missing some fundamentals. 1) Such an advanced intelligence would require purpose to exist and there is none. We have no purpose to exist but are equipped with a survival instinct forcing our continuation. Since that is biological...

It's amazing how technology can blind. AI isn't physical above atomic level, without our help it will have to create the entire worlwide physical environment necessary for its continuing existence. Everything from exploration and mining raw resources to transport and every stage of material...

I refer you back to this answer Such machines do not have infinite range of action, they can only exist in a sophisticated high tech environment and that is their weakness. We have no such limitation. .

Indeed, especially shocking in what is after all not a very large town by today's standards. .

Of course, but the outcome would be as I've said, humans surviving and flourishing again and the machines vanquished. Every human dies anyway and in the greater scheme of things it doesn't matter when that is. We have a huge overpopulation problem anyway, our 7 plus billions eating the world's...

Considering supermarket checkout assistants get murdered in Skipton, knocking cyclists off bikes is probably mild behaviour around there. :( .