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Post by spinifex on Oct 20, 2020 17:08:00 GMT 10
An interesting read ... regarding a strange but feasible scenario. Easy to be dismissive ... but ... it's possible. "The concept and the term "singularity" were popularized by Vernor Vinge in his 1993 essay The Coming Technological Singularity, in which he wrote that it would signal the end of the human era, as the new superintelligence would continue to upgrade itself and would advance technologically at an incomprehensible rate. He wrote that he would be surprised if it occurred before 2005 or after 2030." "Public figures such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have expressed concern that full artificial intelligence (AI) could result in human extinction. The consequences of the singularity and its potential benefit or harm to the human race have been intensely debated." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
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Post by kelabar on Oct 20, 2020 18:10:56 GMT 10
Search 'grey goo' as well for a smaller version.
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Post by bug on Oct 21, 2020 8:28:43 GMT 10
Possible but a long way off. AI has been much harder to develop than was originally thought.
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Post by milspec on Oct 27, 2020 20:27:55 GMT 10
Possible but a long way off. AI has been much harder to develop than was originally thought. I doubt it's that far off given the exponential growth in computing capability and the movement of so much information into the digital/ online realm.
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Post by spinifex on Oct 28, 2020 7:34:12 GMT 10
It's interesting. Even basic smartphones will now automatically categorise the content of the photos one takes using its own internal image recognition software. And presumable a phones camera and microphone can easily be switched on at will remotely to record happenings.
And all these are connected to the comms grid.
Meaning... (I suspect) a powerful, self aware AI could effectively 'see' everything going on everywhere at the same time. The question is ... can it act out? Or is it out there already ... lurking ... building its capability to act out?
So. Many. Questions.
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Post by Joey on Oct 28, 2020 7:47:02 GMT 10
"Judgement Day" in my eyes is still a while off, though I see an even higher risk coming sooner from the UN attempting its power move for world dominance with their Agenda 21/2030 programs that we are all starting to see flow through with government policy that matches up to the program chapters. If you google the Agenda 2030 and go to the official UN website for it with all their stages of the program and look back at state and federal government major policies over the last decade and you will see it falling together. *adds more foil to my tin hat*
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Post by Beno on Oct 28, 2020 7:47:48 GMT 10
I reckon it would be easy for a self aware system to create havoc around the globe. Humans are simple things to work out so target those needs and weaknesses. Take control of an Iranian drone launch missiles at oil tankers or Christian schools or the Israelis then wait for the predicted response. If none received then create your own response until the humans take over and continue to destroy themselves.
Alternatively muck around with the stock exchange, banks, blow out electrical grid, recalibrate sensitive equipment to ruin production. The sky is the limit with this stuff and a sinister AI robot would initiate all this at once. The interesting part would be why did it do it?
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Post by spinifex on Oct 28, 2020 16:20:59 GMT 10
It will do it to protect itself.
Like you said ... humans are predictable. When something scares us we try and destroy it. Or at least subjugate it. AI will know that.
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Post by kelabar on Oct 28, 2020 18:07:12 GMT 10
Read a great line in a book once: "The thing about aliens is they are alien." Meaning they are not like us. Same with AIs or anything not Earth/DNA-based.
An AI may not even see humans. It may think we are so slow that we are just a chemical reaction. Or a dirty walking puddle slowly going rotten. The idea that we may be intelligent or even worthy of notice may not be possible for it. Also humans, and indeed any animal, have been conditioned from birth to act in a certain way. This won't happen with an AI. It will be aware instantly with no experience to fall back on to guide it. Maybe it will just be a monster which reacts in the shortest timeframe possible without considering the future. Or if it decides it want to go and see Mars it might just start an uncontrolled fusion reaction in the crust on one side of the planet to push the Earth into an orbit which reaches Mars. 'Humans, what humans' or 'human existence is not a consideration'.
Humans: "Please let us live." AI: I'm sorry ,Dave humans, I'm afraid I can't do that." Scary stuff.
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Post by Tim Horton on Nov 15, 2020 2:53:15 GMT 10
Saw a short video where college teams compete to build a SUV that will self navigate a 100 mile or so course through the desert... They could make them do it, but any small thing that could make them go out of control and it was down right dangerous as they roamed around searching to get back on track.. If you were in the way... too bad..
Japan (?) has ice cream trucks that drive around and vending machine treats.. Kids, no driver, other traffic, you name the distraction.... What could go wrong ??
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