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What's the worst invention of the 21st century? (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 months ago by UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My favorite episode of X-Files predicted it at a lesser scale: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files)

Having an internet connection, a proper AI can easily order contractors around and reproduce, secure and empower itself.

Godbless the hype is about stupid t9 on steroids, but we don't really have any safeguards against what we assume is a proper autonomous AI.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Having an internet connection, a proper AI can easily order contractors around and reproduce, secure and empower itself.

I mean, that's the standard idea guys like Yudkowsky talk about. Having poked around a bit, it seems a couple decades of petty hackers have made that pretty impossible to do without either leaving a meatspace paper trail, or having meatspace human accomplices. Conquering the world instantly by Wifi, unless you can break encryption, is probably overblown - for now.

Otherwise, I just agree.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Can you give me leads on what from Yudkovski I may read\watch first?

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Извините, я кажется плохо помню его фамилию.

There's a lot. He's been active in this since 2008 or so. Scott Aaronson writes about him quite often on his blog, which is the main way I know of him.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Без п. Thank you.