On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 02:22:04PM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 11:41 AM smitra <smi...@zonnet.nl> wrote: > > *> AI systems have still insect-level intelligence.* > > > 10 years ago that might've been true, maybe even five, but not > today.
I think I can easily wait five more years and see if it all boils down to the mix of hype, half hype and enthusiastic lies... [...] > If an AI decides to kill all biological life it won't be because it's stupid, I believe AI will not kill us, but dumb idiot-rats in their race for another big bucks, releasing untested and hard to debug black boxes, they have the potential. Of course, the untested black box may contain certain form of AI. > and even if they do decide to do that it wouldn't explain why we don't see > an engineered universe when we look at the night sky. Somebody has to be > the first and I think it must be us. I really wonder, what makes you think this Universe is not engineered? How would one test it for signs of "engineeredness"? -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/20220520064843.GB24440%40tau1.ceti.pl.