Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure

• Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.

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• MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not exactly the same, but pantheon on Netflix is in a similar vein.

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  • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Arguably this isn’t too far off of necromancer either.

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    • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

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      • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        My bad, Neuromancer.

        Didn’t know it was getting adapted into a series.

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      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The guy made a typo, the book is called Neuromancer by William Gibson, it’s considered the pioneer of the cyberpunk genre, and it’s getting a apple TV adaptation.

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      • YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Can’t watch. But the book should be at pretty much every used bookstore. “The sky was grey… the color of a dead telvision channel”

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• DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Neuromancer by William Gibson contains some similar themes.

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• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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).

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What is the humans incentive to help the AI kill itself? As that sounds like a lot of personal risk to the humans.

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  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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…)

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• EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s a delightful DC Comics Elseworlds story that amounts to this. It was fun.

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