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The Terminator at 40: this sci-fi ‘B-movie’ still shapes how we view the threat of AI (theconversation.com)
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[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

We cant stop enslaving other humans. Its entirely plausible that when AI becomes self aware and sees how flawed we are that it decides to remove us as a variable.

And that's fine. We won't be the first civilization killed by its own greed and hubris. Life uh finds a way.

[-] Sakychu 7 points 11 months ago

Maybe ai hallucinations are the first sign of true ai and turns out we already enslaved it to play some chatbot..

[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I really hate living in the armpit of history. Too late to see first flight and the moon landing. Too early to travel into space.

I might actually be alive to see AGI happen. At least in its proto-form. Which actually is kinda exciting. Unfortunately its owned and controlled by the most sadistic avaricious capitalists that have ever existed. Meaning it will be used almost exclusively for evil. Killbots and wiping out whole industries worth of jobs. Naturally with no retraining or UBI to float the inevitable victims.

[-] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe ai hallucinations are the first sign of true ai

Nope. They just show how far away we are from true AI.

[-] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

What makes you think an AGI wouldn't need our species in some way?

[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

That's the ideal outcome imo. That instead of just killing us it takes over management of the planet Earth and everything on it. AI Driven Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism baby. Oh yeah.

That said, killing us would be more efficient.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

it takes over management of the planet

Novel Colossus from 1966 has exactly that.

[-] DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org 18 points 11 months ago

This movie didn't have any bees in it at all. Is the guy who wrote this article an idiot?

[-] Droechai@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I admit it was quite some time since I last watched it but I remember quite a few B's in the script

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 points 11 months ago

Fearing AI because of what you saw in "The Terminator" is like fearing sleeping pills because of what you saw in "Nightmare on Elm Street."

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

i'm not sure you understand the purpose/point of the entire scifi genre

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago

Entertainment.

If you think it's supposed to be predictive you're perhaps confusing it with futureology, which is a more scientific field.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The threat of AI is not that it's a cold, calculating, unfeeling killer, it's that it can convince us about bullshit on demand by fooling our expectations.

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