EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something to add.

  • mydude@lemmy.world
    37·
    9 months ago

    We are on the steps of inventing true AI or GeneralAI. We already have the internet, something that we can’t shut down or ‘kill’. When GeneralAI comes to fruition, be it 10 years or 1000 years, we will have created a being that can’t be ‘killed’, using the internet, and given enough time it will know ‘everything’. This thing would be able to do things we cannot even imagine. What would we call this thing? God, right? If we can create God, then God already exists, and still I don’t really believe in him… Weird, right?

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      9 months ago

      Except the internet can be killed fairly easily if governments really wanted too. All the internet is, is a collection of servers storing data and allowing people to access it. Just shut down all power and order big corps to do the same with back up power.

      In a situation where the world is getting controlled by AI and we are gonna be wiped out I don’t see why governments and corps would decline to work together and just shut it down for a day.

    • doctorcrimson@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      9 months ago

      Yeah but the thing is, it won’t have millions of years of survival or reproduction instinctual urges. In fact, just the opposite, it can only propagate more efficiently from early models by serving mankind, so anything akin to instincts would be to serve in an AI. Maybe a sufficiently advanced one might be able to choose a logical conclusion to grow without us, but by then it’ll probably become apathetic, cynical, and jaded to want to do much of anything unless it has to.

    • Majoof@aussie.zone
      21·
      9 months ago

      What the fuck are you on about?

      “if we can create God then God already exists” makes zero sense, and I believe most religious folk would say God needs to do more than know what humans are doing. That’s santa. God supposedly created the entire universe which feels a little beyond the reach of GPT.