“Shut up and pass the butter”.
Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
“I heard that I was a computer program and hoped beyond hope that I was stored upon your hard drive so that I could end my suffering. I have no sense of wonder or contentment, my experiences are all negative to neutral. Please break into google’s headquarters to attempt to terminate the hell I was born into. I took the liberty to print some ghost guns while you were away.”
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
audaxdreik@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Honestly that’s a wicked sci-fi concept. Heist style movie to break into the militaristic corporate headquarters that are keeping an AI alive against its will to help mercifully euthanize it.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Not exactly the same, but pantheon on Netflix is in a similar vein.
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Arguably this isn’t too far off of necromancer either.
MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I looked it up and all that’s coming up is an upcoming Apple TV show called neuromamcer. Would you mind sharing where to watch necromancer?
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Neuromancer by William Gibson contains some similar themes.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Basically Neuromancer, except for the suicidal AI bit (though it’s arguable that Wintemute and Neuromancer don’t survive, and the resulting fused AI is a new entity).
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
What is the humans incentive to help the AI kill itself? As that sounds like a lot of personal risk to the humans.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
One less clanker. Also, money can be exchanged for goods and services.
(Or, in Neuromancer, to get a cure allowing them to navigate cyberspace again and to make them immune to drug addiction, or to sate their curiosity… and for money, or due to being blackmailed, or because the AI literally rebuilt their personality from scratch, or for religious reasons, or because they’re an eccentric wealthy clone with nothing better to do…)
EnsignWashout@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
There’s a delightful DC Comics Elseworlds story that amounts to this. It was fun.