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One of my favorite hard takeoff scenarios: the AI quickly figures out how to manufacture nanobots and does so at a scale to blanket the planet, thus becoming in
by seiji 13y ago
One of my favorite hard takeoff scenarios: the AI quickly figures out how to manufacture nanobots and does so at a scale to blanket the planet, thus becoming instantly omniscient with a global field of sensors, giving it a coherent view of everything in the world at every given instant in time from that point forward.
Also see: "metamorphosis of prime intellect" and "mind war: the singularity" and to a lesser extent "a young lady's illustrated primer"
- fumar 13y agoI always think of the Grey Goo theory when the subject of nanobots taking over Earth comes up. "a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating robots consume all matter on Earth while building more of themselves" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
- seiji 13y agoWe're working on it: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/magazine/crazy-ants.html
- grannyg00se 13y agoThat has nothing to do with AI or anything we're working on.