And I don't get the opposed mindset, that AI is suddenly going to "become a real boy, and murder us all". Isn't it a funny coincidence how the popular opinion

And I don't get the opposed mindset, that AI is suddenly going to "become a real boy, and murder us all". Isn't it a funny coincidence how the popular opinion of AIs aligns perfectly with blockbusters and popular media ONLY? People are specifically wanting to prevent Skynet. The kicker (and irony to a degree) is that I really want sapient AI to exist. People being so influenced by fiction is something I see as a menace to that happening in my lifetime. I live in a world where the majority is apparently Don Quixote. - Point one: If the sentient AI can launch nukes, so can your neighbor. - Point zwei: Redistributing itself online to have unlimited compute resources is a fun scenario but if networks were that good then Stadia wouldn't have been a huge failure. - Point trois: A distributed-to-all-computers AI must have figured out universal executables. Once we deal with the nuclear winter, we can plagiarize it for ourselves. No more appimage/snap/flatpak discussions! Works for any hardware! No more dependency issues! Works on CentOS and Windows from 1.0 to 11! (it's also on AUR, of course.) - Point cuatro: The rogue AI is clearly born as a master hacker capable of finding your open ports, figure out any exploits or create 0-day exploits to get in, and hope there's enough resources to get the payload injected, then pray no competent admin is looking at the thing. - Point go: All of this rides on the assumption that the "cold, calculating" AI has the emotional maturity of a teenager. Wait, but that's not what "cold, calculating" means, that's "hothead and emotional". Which is it? - Point six: Skynet lost, that's the point of the first movie's plot. If everyone is going to base their beliefs after a movie, at least get all the details. Everything Skynet did after the first attack was full of boneheaded decisions that only made the situation worse for it, to the point the writers cannot figure ways to bring Skynet back anymore because it doomed itself in the very first movie. You should be worrying about Legion now, I think. It shuts down our electronics instead of nuking. Considering it won't have the advantage of triggering a nuclear attack because that's not how nukes work, the evil sentient AI is so doomed to fail it's ridiculous to think otherwise. But, companies know this is how the public works. They'll milk it for all it's worth so only a few companies can run or develop AIs, maybe making it illegal otherwise, or liable for DMCAs. Smart business move, but it affects my ability to research and use them. I cannot cure people's ability to separate reality and fiction though, and that's unfortunate.