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Is the most likely doom scenario of an AI apocalypse another version of the very hungry caterpillar story, where instead of having an insatiable amount of hunger for food, it's knowledge? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by folaht@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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So that at the end of the doom scenario, the whole world turns into a giant computer just so the AI can solve a difficult puzzle?

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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

https://ai-2027.com/

They’ve already answered this for you. The summary is that as the earth’s surface area steadily is taken up by more and more AI and AI supporting infrastructure, they just sort of run out of space. So they kill us all with a virus so they can use more space and eventually go to the stars.