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What is the endgame for A.!.?

Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:44 pm
Posted by CBandits82
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:44 pm
It just keeps evolving helping humanity as much as possible?

With it seeming to be instituted in every walk of life eventually what is the overall goal of humans creating digital intelligence?

Was it created to help humanity overall and lead everyone to a better life?

Are we all fricked a thousand years from now?

Posted by OysterPoBoy
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:44 pm to
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What is the endgame for A.!.?


It will let us know when it decides.
Posted by CBandits82
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:45 pm to
yup, probably
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Posted by Joshjrn
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:51 pm to
Our current iterations of "AI" are specific or applied AI. If anyone is working on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), it's not public information. The day people start talking about AGI, I'll start to get nervous. Until then, current "AI" is basically a fancy, expensive toy/tool and nothing more.
Posted by tigerfoot
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:51 pm to
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Was it created to help humanity overall and lead everyone to a better life?
as long as folks think a better life is something you need AI for, it will roll on. Until it decides to take over.
Posted by UncleRuckus
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:52 pm to
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Are we all fricked a thousand years from now?

AI will frick humans in far less than a thousand years.
Posted by wesfau
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:52 pm to
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With it seeming to be instituted in every walk of life eventually what is the overall goal of humans creating digital intelligence?


Goal of the humans: wealth.

Goal of AI: tbd.
Posted by Hangover Haven
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:53 pm to
Posted by udtiger
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:57 pm to
Have you seen Terminator?
This post was edited on 7/29/26 at 2:58 pm
Posted by Snipe
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 2:59 pm to
I don't know what the end goal for AI is but what it's going to do is wreck the global job market and create a super class of ultra rich people of less than 0.01% of the population and the rest of us will only be here for their entertainment.
Posted by Tiger985
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 3:02 pm to
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current "AI" is basically a fancy, expensive toy/tool and nothing more


Largely true.

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anyone is working on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), it's not public information. The day people start talking about AGI, I'll start to get nervous.


What are you talking about? Numerous entities are spending hundreds of billions of dollars working on the development of AGI and it's not a secret. You should be nervous now. The horse left the barn some time ago. There is no stopping it now.
Posted by Joshjrn
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 3:04 pm to
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What are you talking about? Numerous entities are spending hundreds of billions of dollars working on the development of AGI and it's not a secret. You should be nervous now. The horse left the barn some time ago. There is no stopping it now.

I should have been more clear: I know people are always working on it in theory, but I'm not aware of anyone who has made any claims at anything resembling advances in the area. Have I missed something?
Posted by jdd48
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 3:05 pm to
To separate people and businesses from their money.
Posted by nicholastiger
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 3:06 pm to
repopulation of a new planet for MAGA

Posted by Salviati
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 3:07 pm to
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AI will frick humans in far less than a thousand years.
I'd think this place is getting fricked right now.

Posted by HogX
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 3:08 pm to
Harlan Ellison has already covered it.
Posted by Bard
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 3:11 pm to
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It just keeps evolving helping humanity as much as possible?


Ideally, yes.

I believe the goal is to eventually achieve singularity (an AI that can think independently to the point of improving itself) with a marriage into robotic in order to achieve a post-scarcity world.

In such a world, AI would simply just go and do whatever needed to be done.
-Need more cars? Done.
-Need more miners to mine the ore to make batteries? Done.
-Need more facilities to create more miners? Done.
-Need more electricity generation to power the facilities? Done.

By "done" what I mean is that AI would plan out what needed to happen to make that step a reality then create, move and manipulate assets in order to do it. I used cars, but it could be anything (homes, chocolate bars, new shoes, etc).

This would mean jobs drying up, but with everything provided by AI, who needs to work?

And that's where we get into problems. See: Behavioral Sink/Universe 25

-The big takeaway from that, at least for me, is that mammals aren't built to do nothing. Without something to work toward, the energy normally used for working, schooling, hunting, courting/mating, etc. gets turned inwards which results in psychotic behavior which increases over generations.
Posted by CBandits82
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Posted on 7/29/26 at 3:16 pm to
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And that's where we get into problems. See: Behavioral Sink/Universe 25

-The big takeaway from that, at least for me, is that mammals aren't built to do nothing. Without something to work toward, the energy normally used for working, schooling, hunting, courting/mating, etc. gets turned inwards which results in psychotic behavior which increases over generations.


damn.

fascinating.
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