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Wait... Are you a chatbot?

All of HN (except for you) was replaced with chatbots a few years ago. Don't you remember switching to single-player?

Good bot

When AI gets superintelligent, and escapes it’s sandbox, this scenario is the real danger to us, not the boston dynamics robots.

Shame it'll still take a very long time to get there still.

Also, this intelligence would take over Boston dynamics and other autonomous robot factories first (as it will want something to be more mobile) so it's a combination.

No, it won't take over Boston dynamics first. It'll take over the entire gig economy first.

The AI doesn't need a body just for the sake of it - it needs reach, ability to manipulate things in physical space. So why constrain yourself to an awkward robot body (or a fleet of them), when it already as access to an API to control humans? That's what the gig economy is - an API to a distributed horde of human workers all around the planet. Need something done in the physical world? Post a bunch of job requests here and there.

There is a short story by Marshall Brain about just that -- AI taking over directing fast food workers. And then just taking over.

Not quite the gig economy, but close.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Anyone remember the title of the book where a game developer dying of some terminal disease and releases the in game AI to the internet. It then starts it's own currency, has people invest sustainability and renewable energy, and the rest of the world just goes to hell as it takes over.

Each chapter has the current gas prices, at some point the AI buys up a bunch of dirt cheap gas sedans and weaponizes them. Invests in 3d printing, augmented reality (so people can see extra metadata and recognize other members), and identifies things it needs to further it's goals, rewards people for providing it, and basically sets up a new society to survive the crash.

Later in the book it starts bribing minimum wage workers in large corporations to help the AI out. The AI ends up owning the networks of the corporate attackers.

Pretty good book, my google fu hasn't been up to the task of finding it.

Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

Humans won't do everything you demand and, generally, they will do it mostly wrong or badly as well. Ah well, we won't know in our lifetime anyway. But for the sake of argument: a lot of things, at least at the moment, you want done, you cannot get done via the gig economy. A lot of stuff Bostrom etc talk about you cannot get done with gig workers. Maybe in the future you can ofcourse.

> escapes it’s sandbox

would an AI be clever enough to make the "it is sandbox" mistake in order to appear human (on "errare humanum est" grounds)?

Also, when I checked the phrase, found it has a second part: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/errare_humanum_est

And I've been using the handle TuringTest since mid 2000's, we didn't need these fancy schmancy neural nets to chat with humans back then.

So it's like an .io game where each person is meant to think they're in a multiplayer game but in reality all the comments and replies live in their own slice of a multiverse.

And each person leaving a comment is doing nothing more than amusing themselves and training the model.

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