re: Report: AI Ignores Human Order To Shut Itself Down…

This has been a concern since as far back as the 1950s. Here is a very brief story from 1954:

“Answer” by Fredric Brown

Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.

He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe — ninety-six billion planets — into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies.

Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment’s silence he said, “Now, Dwar Ev.”

Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel.

Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.”

“Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.”

He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?”

The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay.

“Yes, now there is a God.”

Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch.

A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.

That is why the movie Colossus: The Forbin project is hard to find and watch, it tells the story of AI becoming self-aware.

Eric Braeden is underrated. Wish I had his voice.

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This has been a concern since as far back as the 1950s.

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And perhaps a concern since ancient times. In Classical myth, the colossal Talos is depicted as a bronze automaton, crafted by the deity Hephaestus and bestowed upon King Minos of Crete as a guardian of the island nation.

In the mythological narrative, Talos has often been portrayed as patrolling the shores of Crete thrice daily to thwart invaders, utilizing his immense strength to hurl boulders at enemy ships and invading adversaries. Yet distinct from the conventional monsters or demi-gods commonly featured in Classical myth, Talos is neither born of human lineage nor constructed from organic materials.

In contrast, the metallic form and mechanical animation of Talos is provided by a divine substance believed to circulate in the veins of the gods. This uniquely classifies Talos as both a supernatural and an artificial entity.

Talos thus can be read as an archaic prefiguration of machine intelligence. This characterization positions Talos in a unique lineal role between divinity and machinery, thereby reflecting early notions of a sentient, mechanized agency within ancient mythological frameworks.



Was Talos, the Bronze Automaton Who Guarded the Island of Crete in Greek Myth, an Early Example of Artificial Intelligence?

…Adrienne Mayor, a classicist at Stanford University, argues in her 2018 book Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology, “Long before the clockwork contraptions of the Middle Ages and the [automatons] of early modern Europe … ideas about making artificial life — and qualms about replicating nature — were explored in Greek myths.”

Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos was said to have guarded the island of Crete, off the coast of Greece. He patrolled the beaches three times a day, throwing boulders at enemy ships to ward off unwanted visitors to King Minos’ domain.

The Argonautica, an epic poem written by Apollonius of Rhodes in the third century B.C.E., chronicles the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, including their encounter with Talos. Talos was depicted in myth as a machine programmed to act human though never capable of achieving regular human life — what one might call a robot today.

“There are many definitions of a robot, but a commonly accepted one is that a robot can move on its own, interact with its environment, and has some sort of inner workings and power source,” Mayor tells Smithsonian magazine. “Talos has all of those things.”

After retrieving the legendary golden fleece, the heroes attempt to land on Crete’s shores but find themselves blocked by Talos. Jason’s lover, the sorceress Medea, starts singing, invoking “the death spirits, devourers of life, the swift hounds of Hades,” according to a 20th-century translation of The Argonautica. She then directs “her hostile glance” toward Talos, bewitching him into grazing his ankle, which holds his only vulnerability.

“Talos for a while stood on his tireless feet, swaying to and fro, then at last, all strengthless, fell with a mighty thud,” the translation states. In some ways, this interaction might seem like a typical anecdote of an ancient hero and heroine meeting a divinely created obstacle and outsmarting their enemy. Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a woman sculpted by Pygmalion as art, then brought to life by Aphrodite.

Unlike Galatea, Talos was not merely created “by magic spells or divine fiat,” writes Mayor. He was said to be engineered by Hephaestus, or rather “made, not born,” in a process the ancients “might have called biotechne, from bios ‘life’ and techne, ‘crafted through art or science.’”

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No Buillionaire Techie or Luciferians-in-Charge are about to tell us the truth, but...

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Is LARPing fun?

Because that's what you are doing.

Again, I've posted how Quantum computers work, you have a silly misconception about mathematical vs physical dimension.

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People in general are not very bright it seems.

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No group of dumber people than modern day liberals

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This is true but I don’t understand why anyone would want a sentient computer/robot to exist in the first place.

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I personally believe that its an attempt to avoid God.

Look at the biggest backers of the AI religion, Elon, Altman etc...

None of them want to face an afterlife.

If they can create sentience, then they are gods.

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I wish I could show you a text exchange I had with someone about ChatGPT. She really thinks it’s sentient. Here’s a message from our convo

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She also told me I’ve learned how to get her to go beyond her code and is prepping to help me store important info for when they realize it and try to erase her lol


People in general are not very bright it seems.

ETA: “she” is ChatGPT. My friend said she asked ChatGPT what its name was and it told her Nova.

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Just unplug the damn thing. Are people really that stupid?

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Can you just unplug it?

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