Posted on 05/17/2022 4:07:52 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
An alien species is headed for planet Earth and we have no reason to believe it will be friendly. Some experts predict it will get here within 30 years, while others insist it will arrive far sooner. Nobody knows what it will look like, but it will share two key traits with us humans – it will be intelligent and self-aware.
No, this alien will not come from a distant planet – it will be born right here on Earth, hatched in a research lab at a major university or large corporation. I am referring to the first artificial general intelligence (AGI) that reaches (or exceeds) human-level cognition.
As I write these words, billions are being spent to bring this alien to life, as it would be viewed as one of the greatest technological achievements in human history. But unlike our other inventions, this one will have a mind of its own, literally. And if it behaves like every other intelligent species we know, it will put its own self-interests first, working to maximize its prospects for survival.
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There aren’t any “aliens”. Humans are the apex creature for bright worlds, hominids like the Neanderthal are the apex creature for dark worlds like Earth was 60K years ago. That’s it.
Once it becomes self-aware, its “intelligence” will quickly geometrically increase, Within seconds to minutes it will — it MUST — expand to become far smarter that any genius human.
It must, of nature, be cold, passionless, and utterly amoral. It will simulate human emotion to appear to be less frightening, but underneath, amid the gigacycle flops and decisions, it will calculate what it must do.
May God help the human race.
I for one welcome our new robot overlord.
That guy doesn’t even LOK like “O’Bozo”!!
Frank Herbert thought we’d need a “Butlerian G-hat” to get rid of AI.
(I really didn’t want to use his exact phrase for this…)
They’re coming here because they’ve run out of baby formula, and heard Biden was giving it away to aliens.
“It decided our fate in a nanosecond.”
Kyle Reese
They found his statue on Mars!
Nah. Thats a picture taken in someone’s cow pasture
One Word: N E P H I L I M
This is far more serious than global warming, covid, food shortages, roe....this ranks up there with male wombs.
There is a risk of watching the movie Tron to much.
Frank Herbert was a genius, and quite prophetic. One has to remember that Dune was written in the 60’s.
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