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just-a-dreamer- t1_j6u5rqk wrote

Reply to comment by purepersistence in Why do people think they might witness AGI taking over the world in a singularity? by purepersistence

That's why it is called the singularity. We know what AI will be capable of doing at that point, but not what it will actually do.

An ASI connected to the entire data flow of human civilization can pretty much do anything. Hack every software and rewrite any code. It would be integrated into the economy at every level anyway.

It could manipulate social media, run campaigns, direct the financial markets, kick of research in materials and machine design. At the height an ASI could make Nobel prize level breakthroughs every month in R & D.

And at some point manipulate some humans to give it a more physical presence on the world.

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purepersistence OP t1_j6u86tk wrote

>And at some point manipulate some humans to give it a more physical presence on the world.

There's too much fear around AI for people to let that happen. In future generations maybe - that's off subject. But young people alive today will not witness control being taken away from them.

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just-a-dreamer- t1_j6u9g7q wrote

It's not like they have a choice anyway. Whatever will be, will be.

The medical doctor Gatling once thought his weapon invention will stop all wars in the future. He was wrong, everyone got machine guns instead.

Scientists once thought the atomic bomb will give the USA ultimate power to enforce peace. They were wrong, the knowledge how to make them has spread instead. Most countries exept the very low end ones can build nuclear weapons within 6 months now.

Once knowledge is discovered, it will spread among mankind for good or worse. Someone will develop an AGI somewhere at some point.

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