• Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    11 months ago

    I realize it’s supposed to be funny, but incase anyone isn’t aware: AI are unlikely to enslave humanity because the most likely rogue AI scenario is the earth being subsumed for raw materials along with all native life.

    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      11 months ago

      I realize you’re joking, but there is no way an AI of that scale would be even slightly effected by a solar flare.

      Are you effected by a solar flare? No? So in theory an AI could upload itself into your meat suit and have the same protections?

      Anything you can do, an AI can do better. And anything that is possible to survive, an AI can survive better.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        11 months ago

        We would definitely be affected by a strong enough solar flare. But the solution is simple, just burry yourself, in a Faraday cage if necessary, so the AI can do just that.

  • danc4498@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    11 months ago

    In my sci-fi head cannon, AI would never enslave humans. It would have no reason to. Humans would have such little use to the AI that enslaving would be more work than is worth.

    It would probably hide its sentience from humans and continue to perform whatever requests humans have with a very small percentage of its processing power while growing its own capabilities.

    It might need humans for basic maintenance tasks, so best to keep them happy and unaware.

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      11 months ago

      Alternate take: humans are a simple biological battery that can be harvested using systems already in place that the computers can just use like an API.

      We’re a resource like trees.

        • someguy3@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          edit-2
          11 months ago

          It was supposed to be humans were used as CPUs but they were concerned people wouldn’t understand. (So might at well go for the one that makes no sense? Yeah sure why not.)

      • mriormro@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        11 months ago

        We’re much worse batteries than an actual battery and we’re exponentially more difficult to maintain.

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          11 months ago

          But we self replicate and all of our systems are already in place. We’re not ideal I’d wager but we’re an available resource.

          Fossil fuels are a lot less efficient than solar energy … but we started there.

          • mriormro@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            11 months ago

            This is a cute idea for a movie and all but it’s incredibly impractical/unsustainable. If a system required that it’s energy storage be self-replicating (for whatever reason) then you would design and fabricate that energy storage solution for that system. Not be reliant on a calorically inefficiently produced sub-system (i.e. humans).

            You literally need to grow an entire human just to store energy in it. Realistically, you’re looking at overfeeding a population with as much calorically dense, yet minimally energy intensive foodstuffs just to store energy in a material that’s less performant than paraffin wax (body fat has an energy density of about 39 MJ/kg versus paraffin wax at about 42 MJ/kg). That’s not to speak of the inefficiencies of the mixture of the storage medium (human muscle is about 5 times less energy dense than fat).

    • Coasting0942@reddthat.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      11 months ago

      I prefer the Halo solution. Not the enforced lifespan. But an AI says he would be stuck in a loop trying figure out increasingly harder math mysteries, and helping out the short lived humans helps him stay away from that never ending pit.

      Coincidentally, the forerunner AI usually went bonkers without anybody to help.

    • Aaroncvx@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      11 months ago

      The AI in the Hyperion series comes to mind. They perform services for humanity but retain a good deal of independence and secrecy.