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Or, the singularity.



That would be something else, like if someone built a Chat GPT that could train itself and it starts learning at an exponential rate, and learning how to make itself unstoppable by humans.


No AI will survive a solar flare! So we just need to hunker down in Zion and wait for that.


the singularity implies reaching a point where the AI’s improvement becomes self sustaining. this is the AI choking itself to death with bad training data.


I'm going to suggest giving Accelerando a read and consider the late state of the singularity.

http://www.accelerando.org

(heh - checking that link Charlie Stross just posted (Jan 31) a blog post: "An AI app walks into a writers room")

Anyways the link I was actually after ... give https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler... a read and consider the "what happens in the later parts of the book."




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