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Can Artificial Intelligences Be Stopped?
I ran into an interesting tweet on the futility of trying to unplug super-intelligent AIs; my response references the electromagnetic shotgun devised by William Gibson in Neuromancer (1984):
AIs should be isolated. Sure, software is now designed to spread across machines, but I still like this idea, from William Gibson's "Neuromancer", written almost forty years ago: pic.twitter.com/ECuAY3UyAO
— Bill Christensen (@Technovelgy) April 9, 2023
Arthur C. Clarke described something similar in his beautifully done 1982 novel 2010: Odyssey Two:
"What is it?" asked Curnow with mild distaste, hefting the little mechanism in his hand. "A guillotine for mice?""Not a bad description - but I'm after bigger game." Floyd pointed to a flashing arrow on the display screen, which was now showing a complicated circuit diagram.
(Read more about the AI cutoff switch)
Also, Google has supposedly been working on a way to Google Working On A 'Cutoff Switch' For AI; I wonder how that's going?
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