[fuzzylogic]

The race to dominate AI is similar to the race to the ‘Bomb’. Everyone knows there’s huge possibilities and no regulation is going to stop it.

There’s a certain inevitability here. Distributed systems, quantum computing, networks, etc. - with nation states funding ‘anything possible’. If ‘it’ can be done, whatever ‘it’ is, and ‘it’ has the resources, motivation, and means of developing ‘it’ - then ‘it’ will emerge.

There’s certainly a genie trying to escape the bottle - we just have no idea yet what it looks like.

[higgmeister]

This got me thinking way back when.

The adolescence of P-1 by Ryan, Thomas J. (Thomas Joseph),

That's a link from the waybackmachine by the way.