Submitted by overlydelicioustea t3_11zfv6i in singularity

Ignore legalities for now, just think about purely technical side of this.

Imagine this example.

some random buisness, they have a lab. Some old computers control the heating and plumbing systems, some other old computers control lab equipemnt, meybe theres even some old Windows AD holding it all together.

Now, a few years from now: In comes a 19" box. It has AI in it, specifically trained to do "computing"..

You plug it in, feed it all your network maybe give it all your credentials (or maybe not and let the thing just pentest your shit and fix it). The box takes some time to check out these systems, see the inputs see the outputs, decompiles the logic of the particular system (or gains insight in other ways) and then replaces it alltogether?

Not just taking it over and control it, but straight up emulating what it does. Think of it like when straight after chatgpt release where people asked it to emulate a unix box and they could create files and write stuff and so on. Think that to the extreme. There is no actual linux, just a super fast, super acurate brain that holds all the high level info that we need and does away with all the underlying shit that enables these high level things.

Noone really needs authentification in their IT. Its just a crutch so that we can instruct our IT to behave like we want it to.

But when you just can tell the computer that Randy from acoouinting should be able to to do thing x AND IT UNDERSTANDS IT LIKE WE DO, you dont need all that overhead crap anymore.

All this stuff, AD, Auth, all the underlying OS, every piece of circumstantial software. ALL THAT GOES IN THE TRASH.

because when you have a computer that understands high level concepts or why all this underlying shit is just there to enable these, it should be able to emulate all that, with the same results.

Think further: imagine GIS user (employee that creates maps of all various sorts). He needs a computer with the OS, with the GIS Software. The infrastructure needs a server to hold all the GIS Data that he uses to create maps. You need a printer, maybe a print server, maybe even more peripheral systems. Also Authetication and all that.

But when you tell a multimodal AI that understands, that Chrisi from the map departemtn should be able to create GIS Style maps and print them out, all you need is the AI Box and a perinter, maybe a display. Chrisi just tells the AI, I need a map of that location with these data in it and it syntesizes how that map qwould look like in the actuial product, refromts that data into a printerstream and prints it out directly.

Think further: you have a socket in the wall, out comes internet. You plug the box straight into that and that is it. You want a webshop for your products? you just tell it, vial natural language "hey, i need a webshop" and it starts to accept incoming http and creates a shop behind it. you dont need to tell it where the data is that descibes the products. You just show it the product and tells it what it can do. Maybe, maybe depending on information available to it, it might just straight up NOT have an actual webshop behind it, but synthesizes an impression of one, tailored exactly towrds that indicidual customer in that very moment.

Im sure im still thinking to small here.

Am I on the right path of thinking? I mean there surely are some caveats and hiccups along the road, but

How feasible is this?

Is traditional IT done for good in a few years?

I realise this, of course, is some kind of bubble and self reinforcing community, but honestly, realistically, is this feasible or a pipe dream?

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SkyeandJett t1_jdcvuq0 wrote

You're thinking too small. By the time AI can do that you're in the self-improvement ASI loop and predicting what that looks like might make your brain melt.

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turnip_burrito t1_jdc6or7 wrote

Sounds good to me at first glance.

And of course it's for a community of unaugmented humans with ASI from the sounds of it.

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Scriptod t1_jdg659w wrote

I'm sure it's feasible, there's just no point to it. The system you've described is not only inefficient, it's insecure, limited, and most importantly — a black box. We already solved millions of problems with software, and AI just enabled us to solve more.

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Nukemouse t1_jdcezsc wrote

I suspect there would be initial teething problems, but any new system would have those be it traditional updates or this AI thing. Even if it didnt "replace" the underlying code it could also just operate the old systems. Like in your heating example you tell it to make the temperature X and it can tweak the settings in the old program for you, acting as a natural language intermediary. This has the advantage of probably being easier maybe with old equipment.

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overlydelicioustea OP t1_jdch9oy wrote

imagine a specifically trained AI, trainign data is all the technical documanetation on this entire world that one can get its hands on. it knows every protocol, every standard, every syntax. it can distill the functionality of every product down to its core feature and emulate that, just by descriptions of what the software supposedly does. It can absorb these tools into itself, get rid of the clutter and be straight to the point. A holistic technical mind, no fatigue, no pause, no error. someday it may improve on these absorbed algorithms and invent entirely new ones since it, as the only entity so far, has an integrated understanding of the whole IT world (or - why stop there - the whole technical world, the whole scientifc world - rappidly taking about agi here...) and just knows whats possible becasue it has the entireity of computing mapped and linked as its state of mind permanently.

obviously im an amateur and enthusiast, optimist or just straight up lunatic, but man, it feels real what is coming.

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