Artificial Intelligence, No, not robots and that sort Options

[Simba]

So I just finished reading some of the book Flowers for Algernon for school. It's about a mentally retarded man volunteering to be part of a surgery/experiment that will try to make his IQ three times higher than what it was.

I've heard that some scientists today are trying to accomplish this.

What do you guys think about artificially raising a person's IQ? What do you think would happen if everybody, or most people received that sort of surgery?

Just wondering what some of you guys think about this sort of thing.

[lovescream]

Talk about irony. I just finished reading part of that book too.

Well, in the book, in says that his intelligence go down (sorry if this is a spoiler :P) rapidly after a few months of gaining it. I'm not sure if that book was written based on scientific research yet, but after I googled it, it said nothing about the kind with surgery, only involving computional intelligence.

But despite that, I think it'll just be cool to be able to have artificial intelligence, just a feeling. I just think that if they ever do come up with a success in this, that many people will take advantage of it, especially people with money. And I think that people who are mentally disabled like that should stay that way, even as cruel as I may sound.