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"Fun" touchscreen story - I had to file a warranty claim for my not so cheap blender that had mechanical controls. The company replaced it with the newer model,

by almog 7y ago

"Fun" touchscreen story - I had to file a warranty claim for my not so cheap blender that had mechanical controls. The company replaced it with the newer model, that had, you guessed it - touchscreen control. Not long after that, I was working in the kitchen, moving stuff into the blender, when a drop of water made it to the screen. The thing started at full speed throwing liquid everywhere, which worsened the situation, leaving me no way to stop it but to pull the cord out. If I had to guess the next touchscreen everywhere will be misuse of AI, not in a malicious way, but in a really stupid one.

pandapower2 7y ago
>If I had to guess the next touchscreen everywhere will be misuse of AI, not in a malicious way, but in a really stupid one. Reminds me of a talk someone gave. I forget who. Elon Musk perhaps. A quick google didn't turn it up. Anyhow, they laid out a hypothetical scenario where humans were driven to extinction by a run away AI. Rather than being some sort of Skynet scenario where the machines are explicitly trying to kill all humans, it is an AI whose job was to maximize strawberry production. The AI converted the earth's entire surface into strawberry fields and inadvertently wiped out everything else in the process. Arguably a more plausible scenario than Skynet.
- freerobby 7y ago
  That talk is a spin on Nick Bostrom's Paperclip Maximizer. See: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
- yyx 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
- iofiiiiiiiii 7y ago
  The Revelation Space book series by Alastair Reynolds [spoilers ahead] ends with such a paperclip maximizer scenario. Someone accidentally turns on advanced sentient self-replicating terraforming robots without programming their target area. They promptly begin to terraform the galaxy and don't take kindly to interference. This is a tiny shade of background in the story, not the main story, but read the books if you like this kind of tale.

by almog 7y ago

pandapower2 7y ago

>If I had to guess the next touchscreen everywhere will be misuse of AI, not in a malicious way, but in a really stupid one. Reminds me of a talk someone gave. I forget who. Elon Musk perhaps. A quick google didn't turn it up. Anyhow, they laid out a hypothetical scenario where humans were driven to extinction by a run away AI. Rather than being some sort of Skynet scenario where the machines are explicitly trying to kill all humans, it is an AI whose job was to maximize strawberry production. The AI converted the earth's entire surface into strawberry fields and inadvertently wiped out everything else in the process. Arguably a more plausible scenario than Skynet.

freerobby 7y ago
That talk is a spin on Nick Bostrom's Paperclip Maximizer. See: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
yyx 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper...
iofiiiiiiiii 7y ago
The Revelation Space book series by Alastair Reynolds [spoilers ahead] ends with such a paperclip maximizer scenario. Someone accidentally turns on advanced sentient self-replicating terraforming robots without programming their target area. They promptly begin to terraform the galaxy and don't take kindly to interference. This is a tiny shade of background in the story, not the main story, but read the books if you like this kind of tale.