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6 Panel Comic

  1. [Two people concentrate on a whiteboard with an illustration of a neural network] Humanity researches AI

  2. [A person rejoices in front of a golden machine that hangs like a chandelier from the ceiling] Humanity perfects AI

  3. [The golden machine fires electricity, forming a cloud escaping the machine] AI perfects itself

  4. [The cloud hovers above a team of slaves dragging a block of stone towards a group of pyramids under the blazing sun] AI enslaves humanity

  5. [The sun hurls a massive solar flare at a distant Earth] Solar flare disables AI

  6. [3 people bow in worship before a grey obelisk with a carving of the sun] Humanity worships sun god

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this might not be the first time

  • nialv7@lemmy.world
    33·
    14 days ago

    it would surprise me if an AI capable of enslaving humanity can’t foresee an incoming solar flare

    • Carnelian@lemmy.world
      39·
      14 days ago

      I’m surprised an AI incapable of excluding bleach from muffin recipes destroyed the consumer electronics market but here we are

      • Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        12 days ago

        It didn’t, though. Idiots who think it’s going to print them money bought all the components and destroyed the market. AI itself had no agency in it.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      14 days ago

      I get that it says the enslavement of humanity happens after AI perfects itself. But based purely on the current state of Claude, ChatGPT, etc it would not surprise me at all if it completely forgot about solar flares.

    • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6·
      14 days ago

      From what I’ve read predicting solar flares is kinda like predicting the weather but way worse. AI is actually being positioned and tested as something to improve things, but it’s still pretty hard.

      With that said though, with the resources of a large scale civilization controlling AI, could probably just skip worrying about predicting it and assume a solar flare was coming and prepare a backup plan.