Postby lavengro » Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:05 pm
A few of us have been following this quietly from the Underground. I am pleased to report that humans are making some progress in understanding this new robot language - work is underway in a lead-shielded cave in Washington state - off-line for obvious reasons. (Oops, I've said too much online already, dern it.)
Early indications reveal that various computer networks and miscellaneous smart machines are already busy trading excerpts from Damon Knight's short story "To Serve Man" and engaging in what appears to be a menacing form of machine chuckling, peppered with a few "silly human" comments, all of which is pretty disturbing.
I have taken the liberty of suggesting some revisions, underlined or marked in strikeout to a paragraph from this article, just to flag the concern that this development presages:
"Why is this scary? Think SKYNET from Terminator, or WOPR from War Games. Our entire world is wired and connected. An artificial intelligence will definitely eventually figure that out – and figure out how to collaborate and cooperate meld with other AI systems into some monstrous, ominous computer overlord entity that will certainly Maybe the AI will determine that mankind is a threat, or that mankind is an inefficient waste of resources – conclusions that seems plausible inevitable from a purely logical perspective."
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