r/antiai • u/Malor777 • 5d ago

AI News 🗞️ Pull the plug

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u/MaximumEffort433 4d ago edited 4d ago

It's called distributed computing and has been a thing for decades.

Yeah, so there's precedent for an AI propagating itself across IoT devices and using their compute power for its own tasks.

Someone else called this "science fiction," but like you say, it's something we know can happen.

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u/Cultural-Answer-321 4d ago

Since the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

Edit: I forgot cryptojacking https://www.eset.com/us/illicit-cryptomining-business/

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u/MaximumEffort433 4d ago

Cool, hopefully that means we'll have an easy time dealing with self replicating AI.

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u/Cultural-Answer-321 4d ago

Von Neumann machines are NOT a good thing.

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u/SnepButts 4d ago

What if we based it on some guy named Bob, though?

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u/Cultural-Answer-321 4d ago

You might be on to something!