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Ok_Magician7814 t1_je1w2pb wrote

Reply to comment by CMDR_BunBun in Chat-GPT 4 is here, one theory of the Singularity is things will accelerate exponentially, are there any signs of this yet and what should we be watching? by Arowx

That’s a bit simplistic. Our world is mostly very low tech and not centrally connected. I’d imagine you’d need an actual humanoid AGI robot to take over the world

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CMDR_BunBun t1_je25d7a wrote

Part of this scenario rules that out. Notice the human uses his superior intelligence to escape. Not his brawn. He could easily outwit his captors through, for instance social engineering. Intelligence finds a way. It always does. It is the one thing that has made made us the apex species of this planet. And we started from very humble beginnings, prey to most creatures. Now many of those former predators have been nearly driven to extinction by us, the rest adorn our walls.

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Ok_Magician7814 t1_je2akip wrote

Sure, I’ll bite. I’ll concede that AGI could possibly effectively control us through virtual means, but this begs the question. What would it do with its power? It’s not a human being with Desires to procreate and consume and hoard resources, it’s just… an intelligence.

That’s the difference between us and AGI.

So sure maybe it can outsmart us but what would it do from there? It doesn’t have any evolutionary drivers like we do.

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CMDR_BunBun t1_je2daq2 wrote

And that is the question. We have never been at this juncture before. Your guess is as good as anyone's.

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