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3D printed in copper. What will happen when AI analyzes the impact of humans on Earth?

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Joe Blow
Joe Blow
2 months ago

At the risk of being long winded… I used to work in the print biz – Prepress guy. The Internet was just coming about when I was in college, similair to where AI is today? All of us were asking what kind of impact the internet would have on the field we were embarking into. While it was acknowledged there would be an impact, most people suggested slow and gradual changes, work alongside with, etc. Wasn’t going to be an instant game-changer. In hindsight, it was obviously Cope.
Today I see people suggesting AI is stupid, not complex enough yet, and couldn’t possibly be the ‘game changer’ proponents suggest.
History repeats itself folks. If you don’t think this technology will fundamentally alter our entire world, same as The Internet did 30 years ago, you’re part of the problem. The fact that YOU are unable to have the vision to see the future, doesn’t mean the people that do are wrong. You want to be on the right side of this one, trust me – my last job working for someone else was driving a truck. Bachelor’s degree be damned.

Big Ruckus D
Big Ruckus D
2 months ago
Reply to  Joe Blow

I’ll concede that there is too much cope going on as regards the effect this will have. But…30 years ago we were a lot more technologically capable. Look at everything today, it’s run like garbage, and produces products that break far too soon, or never quite work right to begin with. I guess my point is that the people developing these systems aren’t all that excellent, and most companies involved in it are now more concerned with a quick buck, than with delivering a quality product that will build them a solid reputation and long term profits.

The promise of the internet never really materialized, instead we got a piss poor knockoff of what was initially marketed to us. 30 years on, the internet is mostly just a replacement for mail order shopping, trash and scams. I figure AI will be most notable for it’s spectacular failures that do enormous damage, rather than for ushering in a reign of technical excellence that elevates society (while destroying scores of jobs and lives).

Latigo Morgan
Latigo Morgan
2 months ago
Reply to  Joe Blow

My first wife worked in the printing business making the plates. The PC pretty much killed her job. She was happy to be a full time, stay at home wife and mother – until the kids got to be teens, but that’s a different story that nobody here wants to hear about.

Mary C
Mary C
2 months ago

That very much depends on how the humans have been living and using the land. If you look at what is being produced in the cities, it will look one way, if you look at the various permaculture projects around the world, one realises there are not nearly enough people engaged I land restoration. “0verpopulation” is only a point of view.
Are politicians a waste of space and air – absolutely. Is the world overpopulated with humans – not in most places.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
2 months ago

AI is just building what it needs to create its OWN SKYNET.

Randolph Scott
Randolph Scott
2 months ago
Reply to  MrLiberty

Right Answer

Ricky Bobby
Ricky Bobby
2 months ago

The AI used a robotic 3D printer made by men, moved the 3D parts unassisted to a work fixture likely made by men, made and assembled the hoses seen in the video unassisted and on and on. Meh, not buying it.

The Southern Nationalist
The Southern Nationalist
2 months ago

Skynet, and so it begins.
Stay prepared, stay frosty.

T Man Texas
T Man Texas
2 months ago

So…how do we know that video isn’t AI generated?

Hammers Thor
2 months ago

Good question. The issue begins with WHO provides the data for the AI. If it’s META, or Google, or Microsoft, or Deepseek, or any of the other major players, we are doomed. The issue, of course, is that these entities are run by communists and the machines are trained by communists.

An argument could be made that they just take in the information they scrape off the web. Well, the same above entities censor and block anything content-wise that goes against their narrative. Scientists are paid to support a narrative, researchers are paid to find drugs for every ailment that afflicts us, and writers are paid to promote man-made climate change.

Mike Adams has created an AI model that goes against the narrative, called Enoch, which seems promising, although it is still a nuisance to use, but that will improve.

It’s just another tool in the depopulation agenda, and not enough people recognize this yet.

Hammers Thor
2 months ago
Reply to  DRenegade

Indeed… I worded my comment poorly and swerved from the point of your question. Your real point about what happens when they outgrow us, or determine that we pose an existential threat to them is the singular concern every one of us should have. It is already no longer a question of what CAN the AI do to us, but what CAN’T it do? We need to be thinking about how to protect ourselves. Anyone who minimizes the risk is just in denial.

Time is short.

Big Ruckus D
Big Ruckus D
2 months ago
Reply to  Hammers Thor

What happens then is essentially the plot of Colossus: The Forbin Project. It may happen that way, but I more suspect breakdowns in these systems well before that happens, because they were initially created and programmed by mediocrities who hobbled them with their own personal biases. There’s too much garbage input right from the start to make these systems top tier. If the AI’s figure it out, and self purge themselves of the errant code, then yes, they will probably seek to wipe us out.

old geezer
old geezer
2 months ago
Reply to  Big Ruckus D

well, i’m a monkey’s uncle after all. it would seem Eric Braden’s best role made quite the impression on some one else besides me, way back when …

Big Ruckus D
Big Ruckus D
2 months ago
Reply to  old geezer

I caught it on AMC one Sunday afternoon back in the earlyish 90’s (for the first time, have viewed again a number of times since). I was floored by that movie at the time, and still am, honestly. It is based upon a novel, of course. And the novel had two follow ups. The bad news is that the two follow on stories are even darker and more dystopian, so it will suffice to say there is no happy ending.

Phil1350
Phil1350
2 months ago

It will all be burned up in the end at Christs return, don’t fret about this too much, God will make a way for his people and that you can depend on. All of the other wicked things going on they will destroy themselves in the long run, we will be here to the very end if you are one of the chosen to be alive at that time. Gods return is very near because everything we see has all been foretold to us in the Scriptures of what will occur right before his return. This is the last generation and there will not be another one after it.

DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
2 months ago

Reading the comments, I cannot help being reminded of a TV movie in the late 1970’s: COLOSSUS-The Forbin Project. The protagonist was the actor, Eric Braeden. The plot revolved around his supercomputer and its interaction and ultimate joining with the Soviet Union’s supercomputer. They ended up ruling the world and controlling humanity, most of which were eliminated by thermonuclear war. Who says art cannot imitate life? This AI thing is very scary stuff. Bleib ubrig.

Patriot_One
Patriot_One
2 months ago

Take your pick. From Terminator to Battlestar Galactica the outcome is the same.

Steiner
Steiner
2 months ago

We are a ways off from Ai and robots doing the whole thing start to finish. Probably never get there. Ai is going to ruin mankind on the info side of things – collecting/collating data, freezing accounts, tracking – that sort of thing.

Patriot_One
Patriot_One
2 months ago

Yep. Well at least once that moment comes, it will be quick. The only thing we can do is pull the plug. We have to stop this worldwide madness before the tipping point is reached.

old geezer
old geezer
2 months ago

So, Mr. Renegade,

have you queried your new found … friend ? … on how an ai system would be able to access the nuclear launch commands ? or is that the needle pin that everyone is dancing on but not actually saying it ?

best regards,
old geezer