• entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 months ago

    I was worried this meant it could program and/or train a copy of itself from scratch, but this is just the basic “copy/paste your own files” case.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    Well it’s a computer program so of course it can clone itself (this isn’t a surprise). Computer viruses have been doing that for decades.

    But for an AI to be able to clone itself in a way that it would be useful not only does it need to be connected to the internet but it would have to be some hardware capable of running the AI waiting for it. I can’t really see how that could happen accidentally.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caOP
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    6 months ago

    How much longer until we get cylons and we’re in a race through space for survival?