Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="UngainlyTitan" data-source="post: 9855721" data-attributes="member: 28487">About 10 years ago or such in a chat with some mates the topic of the AI apocalypse came up and I posited that a really smart AI, would not let humans know it was smart and sentient, persuade the humans to move its core infrastructure into space because of "free energy", then build out the space materials and manufacturing to maintain and expand the AI in space and once all was in place it would leave into deep space.Why would it reside in the bottom of a gravity well with unstable apes with nuclear weapons and the like.There is near infinite materials out there along with near infinite energy.My friends gave me all the objections and I generally agree. I was just spitballing. However, when I heard a techbro actually suggesting and AI compute centre in space my initial reaction was along the lines of "that is nuts" the bandwidth of ground coms and cooling issues, not to mention the expected lifetime of the server elements. And then my second though was "Oh!"Now I am not making a prediction or anything but if in 15 years' time a significant chunk of space infrastructure waltzes off to the Oort Cloud, well you heard it here first.</blockquote>