Comment by falcor84
2 years ago
It's been more than a decade now since we first saw botnets based on stealing AWS credentials and running arbitrary code on them (e.g. for crypto mining) - once an actual AI starts duplicating itself in this manner, where's the big red button that turns off every single cloud instance in the world?
This is making a lot of assumptions like…a super intelligence can easily clone itself…maybe such an entity would require specific hardware to run ?
Is that really "a lot of assumptions" that a piece of software can clone itself? We've been cloning and porting software from system to system for over 70 years (ENIAC was released in 1946 and some of its programs were adapted for use in EDVAC in 1951) - why would it be a problem for a "super intelligence"?
And even if it was originally designed to run on some really unique ASIC hardware, by the Church–Turing thesis it can be emulated on any other hardware. And again, if it's a "super intelligence", it should be at least as good at porting itself as human engineers have been for the three generations.
Am I introducing even one novel assumption here?
My point was that we don't have super intelligent AGI so there is little to suggest it will just be software.
Even the state of the art systems we have today need to be running on some pretty significant hardware to be performant right?
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