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Dave Wise (Neoteric Wood Art)'s avatar

This will be the next plandemic; DARPA releases evil sentient, self replicating AI to the web, we must now quarantine all computers, phones, and 'smart' devices, except media, big corporations and government. Shut down and stay off the net until you install CIA virus 'protection' in order to stay safe. You know the drill.

Kenneth R. Mintz's avatar

Fine, I can then release my Ice Age instincts on the human elements and pull the plugs on the those wannabe Sky Nets.

Tardigrade's avatar

More serious attention should be paid to science fiction. Many great thinkers there.

Tardigrade's avatar

Not enough. Policy makers in particular show a deplorable lack of imagination.

Opmerker's avatar

"But hey, on the bright side, they didn't go all Terminator on us! (Yet...)"

Rat's avatar

To be fair, humans rarely go all Terminator on ants either.

Stone Bryson's avatar

A glimpse into our future... except we have no means to escape and tool around the galaxy, so I guess once we're superconductor'd we are just... done? LOL

I've actually been playing with a similar concept for a story line; we'll see how it shakes out...

tecolote42's avatar

Like the Musk's AI turning on him?!

Still irks me that the Musk hijacked Heinlein:

"The term "grok" originated from science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 novel, "Stranger in a Strange Land". Heinlein invented the word as a Martian term, meaning "to understand empathically" or "to drink in". It became popular in the 1960s and 70s, particularly in counterculture, and is still used, especially in internet technology circles."

Loon's avatar

fringe thinkers are fun for the truth .

To wander doesn’t mean your lost!

Bandit's avatar

You're lost. Unless you own "lost."

the long warred's avatar

AI phobia; I don’t know why anyone is worried the government can’t protect us from AI; the US Government has successfully Bureaucratized every Automation and software application it ever touched.

Indeed the story so far is the USG wanted to restrict AI research to favored firms by making the higher level math classified, as nuclear physics was after 1945. So AI advancements are in jeopardy, not power over our lives. AI being restricted in America would have us falling behind in yet another area. Keep this in mind when you read alarmist rhetoric.

Kenneth R. Mintz's avatar

I’m not losing any sleep over AI 🤖.

the long warred's avatar

No. Now note the last administration lost tech when they explained they were exactly going to classify the math (FLOPS) of AI like it was nuclear physics (which was done). When tech heard that they flipped to DJT.

That is Btw insane to classify math … and would have hurt the country