Now, this story is pretty awesome:
The three greatest paragraphs in games journalism all year. https://t.co/SIfRKEcoMV pic.twitter.com/Sl9cdl5VxY
— Sunil Patel (@ghostwritingcow) June 5, 2016
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?
Also, the “boy who cried ‘wolf'” effect…if it DOES show up, we’ll all be doing Skynet jokes instead of organizing resistance cells…
“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.
I am reluctant to kill on sight anything that might have a soul.
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.
No, I don’t particularly want to debate AI, and I suggest that you stop being rude to your host.
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.
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.
People can debate it all they like. I’m just not in the mood for people being impolite, particularly to me.
I figure if AI does develop, it’s more likely to be like Ultron than Skynet.