They gave it command line access and told it to copy files into another directory. It still sounds quite trivial.
AI Can Now Replicate Itself
Submitted 2 months ago by cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/11/0137223/ai-can-now-replicate-itself
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regrub@lemmy.world 2 months ago
HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I was worried this meant it could program and/or train a copy of itself from scratch, but this is just the basic “copy/paste your own files” case.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Well it’s a computer program so of course it can clone itself (this isn’t a surprise). Computer viruses have been doing that for decades.
But for an AI to be able to clone itself in a way that it would be useful not only does it need to be connected to the internet but it would have to be some hardware capable of running the AI waiting for it. I can’t really see how that could happen accidentally.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
How much longer until we get cylons and we’re in a race through space for survival?
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This series of videos by a PhD mathmetician is a good resource for why this will not be an issue with current ai.
hexdream@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you waiting for the hot cylons or the space battles?
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
It would be a short war anyway. We already know where Earth is.
funkajunk@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Soon, I hope
Our species is fucked anyways
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
If only we could redirect that asteroid to land more usefully on the United States, the rest of the world would be fine.
hark@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like how any regular application can be instructed to copy itself i.e. a computer worm? Not exactly shocking for a computer program to do.