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Reminds me a little of Stuxnet, which certainly happened: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-software-ever-written-1/answer/John-Byrd
by jfoster 3y ago
Reminds me a little of Stuxnet, which certainly happened: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-of-software-ever-written-1/answer/John-Byrd-2 https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-sophisticated-piece-o...
Things like this combined with AI are the scariest version of the future, I think. If we ask a very capable AI to solve climate change, what if it decides to solve it by creating something like Stuxnet for human infrastructure?
- NikolaNovak 3y agoPeter Watts novel Starfish, a stunning quarter century old now, has exactly that problem as part of its side plot. In a chilling detail relevant to today, it posits a black-box trainable neural network (biological in the book but an irrelevant difference overall) tasked with solving some of the big issues, which makes subtle links and determinations in the model which eventually end up potentially disastrous for human kind.
- CoastalCoder 3y agoOoh! Just yesterday I an old radio performance [0] of the short story, "A Logic Named Joe" [1], which also seems very apropos. Highly recommended! [0] https://www.relicradio.com/otr/2021/12/a-logic-named-joe-by-dimension-x-2/ https://www.relicradio.com/otr/2021/12/a-logic-named-joe-by-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe