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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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Exactly .... Terminator AI won't build a humanoid robot with a machine gun, red eyes and rides a motorcycle ...

... it'll build a mosquito sized flying nanobot that delivers a nerve toxin that instantly kills .... and it will build billions of them that can survive extreme heat and extreme cold weather .... then build varieties that will crawl everywhere and other types that will infest the water.

But we'll be given a choice .... obey or die.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So, "flies" from The Invincible? Microbots that pretty much conquered a planet, making it impossible for all life to exist on the planet's surface. There was no "obeying" them, only dying or leaving.

Dude that wrote that (in 1964 no less) must've been a time traveler. Computers back then barely started being miniaturized, there were no home PCs, no smartphones or actual nano tech to speak of. Only recently we've started building microbots and nano scale mechanisms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Wow .. never heard of the book or the writer ... amazing it was 1964! ... now I have to read up on his work and find the book - thanks for that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible

He might have originated it ... or was one of the first to write about it ... but the idea has been suggested in several places since then .. notably in 'The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)' where micro bots swarms start consuming everything ... or in the hypothetical apocalypse of 'Gray Goo'

The idea always fascinated me and seems more plausible for robotic evolution that in our human bipedal mentality of AI recreating an autonomous machine in the shape and form of a the human body.

[–] Astarii_Tyler 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

John Von Neumann died in 1956 and I believe he came up with the original "von neumann probe" that he called the "universal constructor"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_constructor

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