Aizip's breakthrough starts with sneakers and then...who knows

Researchers build AI that can replicate and alter itself and I’m pretty sure that’s an opening line from the original Terminator script::Aizip’s breakthrough starts with sneakers and then…who knows

  • zoostation@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    The sooner an AI article references Terminator the sooner you know not to take it seriously.

    • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Exactly … Terminator AI won’t build a humanoid robot with a machine gun, red eyes and rides a motorcycle …

      … it’ll build a mosquito sized flying nanobot that delivers a nerve toxin that instantly kills … and it will build billions of them that can survive extreme heat and extreme cold weather … then build varieties that will crawl everywhere and other types that will infest the water.

      But we’ll be given a choice … obey or die.

      • Roman0@lemmy.shtuf.euEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        So, “flies” from The Invincible? Microbots that pretty much conquered a planet, making it impossible for all life to exist on the planet’s surface. There was no “obeying” them, only dying or leaving.

        Dude that wrote that (in 1964 no less) must’ve been a time traveler. Computers back then barely started being miniaturized, there were no home PCs, no smartphones or actual nano tech to speak of. Only recently we’ve started building microbots and nano scale mechanisms.

      • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I feel like that’s humanizing it too much. Why would it want us to obey it, and to what end? Wanting power like that is a very human motivation, but an AI could have completely different goals that wouldn’t make sense for a naturally evolved intelligence to have, since presumably they’re created to do some purpose or another.

  • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    We’ve had self learning neural networks for awhile. Still waiting to see how any of this can turn terminator.

  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    The core concept of the AI singularity is an AI that can make a slightly better version of itself. At the rate software runs, that can turn into a super intelligence very quickly by human terms. Iterated incremental improvement generally increases exponentially.