AI Can Now Replicate Itself (slashdot.org)
from cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 05:14
https://lemmy.ca/post/38980535

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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca on 12 Feb 05:14 next collapse

How much longer until we get cylons and we’re in a race through space for survival?

hexdream@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 06:28 next collapse

Are you waiting for the hot cylons or the space battles?

echodot@feddit.uk on 12 Feb 11:53 collapse

It would be a short war anyway. We already know where Earth is.

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 06:29 next collapse

how ai works

This series of videos by a mathmetician is a good resource for why this will not be an issue with current ai.

funkajunk@lemm.ee on 12 Feb 06:30 collapse

Soon, I hope

Our species is fucked anyways

echodot@feddit.uk on 12 Feb 11:54 collapse

If only we could redirect that asteroid to land more usefully on the United States, the rest of the world would be fine.

regrub@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 05:41 next collapse

They gave it command line access and told it to copy files into another directory. It still sounds quite trivial.

hark@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 05:43 next collapse

In the first, the AI model was programmed to detect whether it was about to be shut down and to replicate itself before it could be terminated. In the other, the AI was instructed to clone itself and then program its replica to do the same – setting up a cycle that could continue indefinitely.

Like how any regular application can be instructed to copy itself i.e. a computer worm? Not exactly shocking for a computer program to do.

HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world on 12 Feb 05:49 next collapse

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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org on 12 Feb 06:04 next collapse

I was worried this meant it could program and/or train a copy of itself from scratch, but this is just the basic “copy/paste your own files” case.

echodot@feddit.uk on 12 Feb 11:52 collapse

Well it’s a computer program so of course it can clone itself (this isn’t a surprise). Computer viruses have been doing that for decades.

But for an AI to be able to clone itself in a way that it would be useful not only does it need to be connected to the internet but it would have to be some hardware capable of running the AI waiting for it. I can’t really see how that could happen accidentally.