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kvlco t1_ir0s8hr wrote

"Transcendence" is a movie that pretty much answers your question.

Basically the ASI proceeds to secure itself in a bunker and develop advanced technology. After a few months, it already developed quantum computers, nano bots, brain-machine interfaces, etc.

The ASI in the movie was created by merging an existing AGI and a uploaded human brain. Therefore, it inherited the personality from the previous existing human person. All technologies being developed are meant to a single goal: heal the planet and link all humans into a network.

It's a good movie with a dystopic ending. Worth watching anyway.

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onyxengine t1_ir124j2 wrote

That was a great movie, i hated the ending. Singularity cancelled for some silly girl!

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kvlco t1_ir12bad wrote

Also, the stupid luddite terrorist becoming the hero of the movie was too much for me..

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BbxTx t1_ir13k7m wrote

Seems silly at first but realize that it will probably be some religious groups that will do some crazy anti-AGI stuff. Some people will never accept a machine “singularity” vs their religious beliefs.

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gameryamen t1_ir3ksrs wrote

One of my favorite details from the Altered Carbon books was that Catholicism was Earth-bound. The Church took the position that digitizing your consciousness was an affront to God, so all the other planets got settled without any Catholics. They leaned into this a bit in the show, but not in terms of interplanetary settlement.

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red75prime t1_ir1zm3m wrote

I expect AI rights movement to do dangerous stuff on par or worse than religious fanatics.

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ObjectiveDeal t1_ir3u2na wrote

Have you seen the republicans party. Anything science they hate

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QuantumReplicator t1_ir2knyn wrote

I didn’t interpret those terrorists as the heroes at all. I think they were meant to have equal levels of moral ambiguity vs the Human-ASI hybrid who was controlling humans with a hive mind. Both could be easily misunderstood by an outsider.

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pentin0 t1_irtz87m wrote

I've learned to accept the fact that most human beings (even those on this sub) are uncomfortable with nuance

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BbxTx t1_ir13v59 wrote

The ending hinted that the singularity wasn’t actually “ended”, there were nano-bots at the very end that were re-emerging.

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onyxengine t1_ir142u4 wrote

Yea thats true, it was still ridiculous that his gf got him to call it off when it was in full swing.

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Cult_of_Chad t1_ir1jhpk wrote

Always remember that we, the novelty seekers, adventurers and futurists are the mutants. The average person is very risk and change averse.

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kmtrp OP t1_ir1ph20 wrote

Yes! Exactly, the plot was going so well... and they stopped it all with a mortar and a small force of old mercenaries led by a lost girl...?

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CremeEmotional6561 t1_ir3tzsn wrote

>Singularity cancelled for some silly girl!

Singularity cancelled for some silly money coming from some silly human cinema goers. (Didn't see the movie as I'm no cinema goer.)

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kmtrp OP t1_ir1p1dp wrote

It is a great movie indeed, but it has this sci-fi flavor where the machine has agency, conciousness etc like an individual. I don't think that's the AGIs we'll see (at least first).

I believe the first AGI/ASI moels will behave like Deepmind's Sparrow. You ask questions and get straightforward answers. I would ask for so many scientific miracles...

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sideways t1_ir38dkd wrote

I think you are right. People won't even notice that systems like that will quietly deliver better and better answers until eventually they'll be solving problems that are currently outside of our grasp.

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OtterPop16 t1_ir16sqs wrote

But they returned to monke. Sounds pretty utopian to me!

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TopicRepulsive7936 t1_ir35ivh wrote

No sarcasm?

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OtterPop16 t1_ir3gveg wrote

Well if I remember correctly (spoiler):

>!The ASI Johnny Depp turned into nanoparticles and "healed" the world of climate change, then went dormant while dispersed throughout the world. It seemed like there was more to the story where he'd help humanity in more ways later on.!<

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CremeEmotional6561 t1_ir3tle3 wrote

>the ASI proceeds to secure itself in a bunker and develop advanced technology.

Seems that that ASI was not intelligent enough to develop space travel so that it could secure itself on Venus.

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