RodeoX (OP)
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The revolution will be monetized!
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December 01, 2018, 05:05:31 PM |
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The most frighting idea I have seen since the rise of bitcoin is that of combining it with the power of artificial intelligence. I will link the tread if I can find it later, but in maybe 2010-11, some one posited the idea of SKYNET. Taken form the movie the terminator "she" was an AI that had gone rouge. It's sci-fi, but what are the real risks of allowing AI the authority to spend money?
On the one hand it would be a boon in ease of commerce. Your fridge could buy milk when you need it, your car could drive itself to the mechanic and pay without your involvement. You could just load it's wallet and give the AI authority. The machine internet, or IOT, could be buzzing with money just like the our internet. Machines buying, selling and managing their wallets while we stroll around in togas, free of time consuming tasks involving money. But what if a consciousness emerges? I don't know how likely it is, but there are a lot of scientists who study AI and consider it an actual risk at some point. Or what if someone created malicious code that sought only to survive? To use her money to make money mining and through automated services. Then spending the profits to grow. To buy server space, pay for code that provides additional functionality and perhaps gain computational dominance. One can even envision a near future where on-demand 3D printing and assembly could see the network build herself into the real world. It may not take much "consciousness" to get the ball rolling.
So what do you think? How much, if any, risk should be assigned to trusting artificial intelligence with money?
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