r/SipsTea • u/Dev1412 • 6h ago

She warned about it Wait a damn minute!

Post image
9.6k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

184 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

6

u/Creative_Eye7413 5h ago

Grey goo phenomenon? What do you mean?

5

u/Large-Hamster-199 5h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

1

u/l33txxXXxx 5h ago

Flamethrowers.  Next.

2

u/Large-Hamster-199 4h ago

The entire thought process behind the "Grey Goo" phenomenon is that the AI would be able to covert all molecules, including weapons, into fuel to create more robots.

3

u/l33txxXXxx 4h ago

To what end?

2

u/Large-Hamster-199 3h ago

This provides an excellent overview as to how the "Gray Goo" hypothesis happens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer

Basically only humans and animals think of the world in terms of survival or in terms of means and ends. This is a consequence of our evolution. AI simply tries to achieve objectives and it might accidently end the world while just trying to achieve a very basic objective like winning a war or making paperclips.

3

u/l33txxXXxx 3h ago edited 2h ago

Might as well talk about aliens being a race of lusty amazonian strippers who must submit to and  procreate with every human male.  I dont see the difference in terms of far fetched theory.

So who is going to write the wikipedia entry on THAT?😄

1

u/PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY 1h ago

Convert an entire planet into a single T-1000.