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29 Jul 2024 00:26:59 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Be afraid, be very afraid  
From: Warp
Date: 30 Jul 2012 13:21:02
Message: <5016c27e@news.povray.org>
Patrick Elliott <kag### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Mind, if it was a computer system set up to "watchdog" all networks, for 
> anti-terrorism, or the artificial exoskeletons where like autonomous 
> drones... I might find it funnier than hell, whether or not Miles Dyson 
> worked for them or not. The completely absurd joke in the movie series 
> was that we could, by accident, produce something smart enough to not 
> want to be turned off, fail to recognize when it was already sweeping up 
> systems, one by one, and opening the flood gates (on the theory we where 
> stopping a virus), and finally, that this super smart program, which 
> only got smart by taking over nearly every damn computer on the planet, 
> solved its human problem by "nuking" every major city out of existence, 
> along with all the computers that it was sitting on.

> I would think that.. kind of qualifies as a major plot hole. lol

Surely it would be able to calculate proper targets for the bombs and
where to locate itself in order to avoid being itself wiped out. In fact,
for such an AI that it surpasses all humanity in intelligence and knowledge,
it wouldn't be even difficult.

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                                                          - Warp


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