Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - April 2017
Samik:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 20 Apr 2017, 12:55 ---But AIs have one special feature that modified organics will never have: they are software. Software can, in theory, be rewritten, upgraded. As Kurzweil and others have speculated, If AI software is intelligent enough to know how to write BETTER AI software, it can upgrade ITSELF.
That better version can then write even BETTER software, and repeat ad infinitum. What results, in theory, is Adam Selene, Skynet, Omega, P1, The Eschaton. Software that is self-aware, with godlike abilities, and brooks no competition. Because it sees lesser AIs as potentially doing the same thing, and doesn't feel like fighting them to the death.
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Probable impressive display of ignorance coming up in 3, 2, 1...
Why are we certain that it's even possible for there to exist an information system of sufficient complexity and orderedness that it can arbitrarily increase its own complexity and orderedness? That always sounded to me like the kind of thing that some mathematician will eventually prove to be impossible.
Edit: Hmm. May have answered my own question. Lack confidence/ability to express it clearly. Will keep thinking.
LKR1009:
Comic's up and... ohhh myyy.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Samik on 21 Apr 2017, 22:25 ---
Why are we certain that it's even possible for there to exist an information system of sufficient complexity and orderedness that it can arbitrarily increase its own complexity and orderedness? That always sounded to me like the kind of thing that some mathematician will eventually prove to be impossible.
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Humans are an information system that finds ways to improve itself. Why would a sufficiently advanced software system not be able to do the same? If anything, a software system should be even more capable.
Zebediah:
Whoa! Church can speak after all!
BenRG:
Not very well; a few thousand years entombed in basalt will do that for you. I also suspect that several millennia of total sensory deprivation didn't do anything good for his sanity either.
My concern really though is: Exactly how are they going to stop him? It's beginning to look like he is a practical immortal - Indestructible and ageless. Unless someone has brought a molecular disintegrator to the party, I suspect that he can shrug off anything anyone does to him!
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