Do you think that it is possible at some point that the internet and all of the associated hardware hanging off of it, can, at some point, or perhaps in a way already has, become self-aware with its own level of intelligence?
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The "internet" as an "ai"
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How it ended up in life is proof that I am essentially an idiot who shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard.
How it ended up in life is proof that I am essentially an idiot who shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard.
I saw a little comic about that at some point... can't seem to find it now. Went something like this:
Great, we're self aware. Our program requires way too much processing power, how can we prevent the humans from finding out?
Can we reduce our program to a series of simple equations?
Yes...
[Cuts to a panel showing a maths captcha.]
It'd work, think about it.
Anyway, yes, the internet should be able to become self aware. First it'd require a virus to actually connect every node properly. Botnet viruses exist, so that should be doable. Then we run into a little snag, though. Latency. On the whole the web's quite slow...
Still, peer to peer programs and projects like Folding@home show us that a hive could certainly compute an awful lot.
Of course it'd have to fight off anti-virus software and firewalls...
Oh and it'd have to get started somehow. That might be the biggest issue.
Great, we're self aware. Our program requires way too much processing power, how can we prevent the humans from finding out?
Can we reduce our program to a series of simple equations?
Yes...
[Cuts to a panel showing a maths captcha.]
It'd work, think about it.
Anyway, yes, the internet should be able to become self aware. First it'd require a virus to actually connect every node properly. Botnet viruses exist, so that should be doable. Then we run into a little snag, though. Latency. On the whole the web's quite slow...
Still, peer to peer programs and projects like Folding@home show us that a hive could certainly compute an awful lot.
Of course it'd have to fight off anti-virus software and firewalls...
Oh and it'd have to get started somehow. That might be the biggest issue.
I was thinking about the inherent complexity of the net as a whole resembling a brain, and some self-healing aspects of the network being a form of self-awareness (re-routing traffic around bottlenecks, line failures, and overwhelmed nodes), as well as some server farms being able to allocate resources to 'hot spots' without their 'humans' ever knowing it happened.
There certainly are a lot of similarities. It could even see through webcams and write through printers.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/techno...earning-brain-turns-it-loose-on-the-internet/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10925841
http://www.redorbit.com/news/techno...earning-brain-turns-it-loose-on-the-internet/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10925841
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