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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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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:

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    1 year ago

    We’ve had self learning neural networks for awhile. Still waiting to see how any of this can turn terminator.