Then again, nobody knows how skynet will get started. If it does happen, you can be sure it'll be done by someone who is sure that things just don't work that way, right up to the moment they are crushed by a giant metal boot.
Let's hope that Skynet is not able to feed off of spam. There's so much of it's food already. We'd never be able to stop it.
I expect that 'Skynet' will be descended from spambots.
That's true, but my argument is that we can basically guarantee that a simple neural net won't become self-aware, in the same way that we know that a linear regression library won't become self-aware. The complexity is bounded, just like it is in the experiments described in this paper.