Tweet of the Day, Why Must It Always Be Skynet? edition.

Now, this story is pretty awesome:

https://twitter.com/ghostwritingcow/status/739358834431381505

Short version is, a update bug for the space game Eite Dangerous got exploited… by the AI, which then proceeded to go hunt PCs (which it was supposed to do) after creating insanely powerful, cobbled-together weapons (which it was not). They’re fixing the problem now – expect a couple of the fun cobbled-together weapons to be made available to PCs later, by the way – but it occurs to me that slapping down the “Here comes Skynet!” observation every time something like this happens is counter-productive. I mean, what if AI ever does spontaneously erupt? Do we really want to be rude to it like that?

9 thoughts on “Tweet of the Day, Why Must It Always Be Skynet? edition.”

  1. Also, the “boy who cried ‘wolf'” effect…if it DOES show up, we’ll all be doing Skynet jokes instead of organizing resistance cells…

  2. “I mean, what if AI ever does spontaneously erupt? Do we really want to be rude to it like that?”
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    Yes Moe, we do. Because we would want to kill it in the crib and then have lunch five minutes afterward.

      1. Stop it, Moe. You beclown yourself on your own website.
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        If you want to debate AI, call me up Skype and turn on the recording device.

    1. You won’t have the chance. Any AI is likely to process data thousands of times faster than humans at the start. It would be 5000 steps ahead of you before you could reach the power switch. Seriously.

      1. Whoopsie, I just realized our host may not want me debating AI either. Mr. Lane, please feel free to delete both these posts. My apologies.

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