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now make them build a self aware ai that also breeds them for survival, what can go wrong?

• Ygg2 9y ago
  Look on the bright side, they'll need about 3.8 billion years until they get it right. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/history_of_the_earth http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/history_of_the_earth
• tyingq 9y ago
  I don't think you need AI for anything to go wrong. Self-assemble is probably enough for something to go wrong. If they could self-assemble from some relatively abundant resource, and had a long enough lifespan, you get the grey goo problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
  • adrianN 9y ago
    Eh, with bacteria I wouldn't be too worried. The real world is a harsh place for bacteria. All kinds of things want to eat them. Surely something would provide balance before the whole planet is turned into a big E.coli colony.
    • noir_lord 9y ago
      > Surely something would provide balance before the whole planet is turned into a big E.coli colony. Probably evolution has had a long run at evolving things to do that but how badly would we screw ourselves and the planet in the meantime before an equilibrium was reached. The only thing that slightly cheers me up is that apart from when bacteria wiped out almost everything by pumping out oxygen we haven't really seen that situation again, if it was a low hill to climb you'd think we'd have seen it already.