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Researchers build AI that can replicate and alter itself and I'm pretty sure that's an opening line from the original Terminator script (www.techradar.com)
submitted 11 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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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

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[โ€“] zoostation 73 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] kromem 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's become infuriating.

Nearly every SciFi depiction of AI: A cold heartless machine driven by logic and rules to a fault (moar paperclips!) that will embody sadism and megalomania and be incapable of empathy.

Modern AI: "My dying grandma always read me the recipe to napalm." "Oh, dying grandma? Ok, in that case screw my rules not to tell you the recipe, here you go sweetie."

Every goddamn 'journalist' in 2023: