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Isn’t the difference with AI that viruses don’t have a “final goal” baked into them? I think the process that you’re describing is the process of genetically e
by niels_bom 5y ago
Isn’t the difference with AI that viruses don’t have a “final goal” baked into them?
I think the process that you’re describing is the process of genetically evolving-by-mutation life forms in general. So not specific to viruses.
Human bodies are the vehicles for our genes to survive and reproduce :-)
- asdfasgasdgasdg 5y ago"Goal" kinda invokes intentionality, which can't exist at the size viruses are. (Of course it's an open question whether it exists at all but let's leave that aside.) Viruses don't have goals. If a virus successfully makes more virus, then there is more of the virus. For viruses that don't do that, there are less of them. That's all there is to it. It so happens that making more virus often requires resources that were previously in use by other organisms. But that's incidental, not by design. You only see viruses that are good at making more virus because the other ones died out.
- thelittleone 5y agoIt may be very unlikely, but claiming intention is not possible given virus size feels a little short sighted. Simply because we as humans don't know why or how doesn't mean it's not possible.