Who knew the gray goo was actually going to be a flood of meaningless text?
ofjcihen · 49m ago
Honestly that would make a good sci fi short story. What appears to be a well of knowledge created by an advanced but missing species that turns out to be nothing but well ordered gibberish.
Maybe it spreads to other civilizations that find it and accidentally incorporate it into their technology.
Or maybe they go to war over it and destroy themselves leaving whoever is left to find out that’s its cyber trash.
davesmylie · 12m ago
Not AI related, but the (hard sci-fi) book Blind Sight by Peter Watts explores this from a different angle. He posits that consciousness is expensive and some species may evolve to just "fake it".
Also, space vampires.
saltcured · 32m ago
Tentative title: The Machine Slops
cyanydeez · 1h ago
Imaging generating haystacks at an accelerated rate and calling it progress.
Maybe it spreads to other civilizations that find it and accidentally incorporate it into their technology.
Or maybe they go to war over it and destroy themselves leaving whoever is left to find out that’s its cyber trash.
Also, space vampires.