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by Numberwang 11y ago
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- minimaxir 11y agoWhile a great short story and should be required reading for sci-fi fans, there's a big difference between the singularity and omnipotence.
- ryanx435 11y agono there isn't, if you include time. lets say that a general AI is developed and brought online (the singularity occurs). Lets also say that it has access to the internet so it can communicate and learn, and lets also say that it has unlimited amount of storage space (every harddrive in every device connected to the internet). at first the AI will know nothing, it will be like a toddler. than, as it continues to learn and remember, it will become like a teenager, than like an adult in terms of how much it knows. Than it will become like an expert. but it doesn't stop there! a general AI wouldn't be limited by 1) storage capacity (unlike human's and their tiny brains that can't remember where they put their keys) or 2) death (forgetting everything that it knows). so effectively a general AI, given enough time, would be omnipotent because it would continually learn new things forever.
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- pkinsky 11y agoOr maybe the AI would fracture into warring components after every network partition. Maybe it would be unable to maintain cohesion over large areas due to the delay imposed by the speed of electrical communications. Why should one hypothetical be assumed true and not the other?
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- jsprogrammer 11y agoSorry, how did you go from finite hard drives (all of those that have been produced) to unlimited storage capacity?