Deadly Truth of General AI? - Computerphile

"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."

"And that point is... as soon as you switch it ON." Scariest thing I've heard in a long long time.

Every night before I go to sleep, I check under my bed for the deadly stamp collector device.

Alright someone should make a movie out of this legendary stamp collector AI.

the ending was real heavy. "There comes a point where the stamp collecting device becomes extremely dangerous.  And that point is, as soon as you switch it on..."

I will forever fear stamp collectors after watching this video.

I feel like the "Stamp Collector" scenario could also be called the Sorcerer's Apprentice Problem: it will do exactly what you tell it to, and will only not do the things you tell it not to do. So if you forget to tell it to stop when the basin is full of water, or not to replicate itself...

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine an AI creating stamps out of human faces - forever."

Next Hollywood Blockbuster: The Stampinator. His task was simple: Get Stamps. But once all the forests burned down and all the cities were sacked it began to turn people into stamps.

Harvested for stamps?  Not like this :(

And here he said that a realistic "AI takes over the world" scenario wouldn't be a very fun story. That was an awesome story. I'd watch that. "Alright, I need you to stop collecting stamps now." "I'm afraid I can't do that, Rob."

LOL - I like it. "There comes a point where it becomes extremely dangerous, and when you're talking about a really effective intelligence, that is the point where you stitch it on." Beautifully put. Wonderful description. That's it in a nutshell. You're creating something that has not existed before, so you have no historical precedent. You're creating something that may think like we do, but may think very differently. You're creating something that may find options and combinations of message and action, that you never anticipated. You're creating something that may 'think' so much faster than us, that we'd be helpless to it. You are opening a Pandora's box and sticking your hand in, and you have no idea what's in there...

I knew stamp collectors were a threat to humanity.

i love the last sentence.

How the hell would a movie or book about a stamp collecting machine that ends up taking over the world in order to turn people into stamps be uninteresting to watch or read? It would be awesome as heck!

...actually, wouldn't this work to explain Skynet's behavior, too? Put aside the whole "It's doing it for survival" thing and assume that Skynet was built using the same rules. What was Skynet's original purpose, as designed by humanity? To defend the United States from attack. Well, what better way to do that then to wipe out literally all of the US' enemies at once through nuclear barrage? True, the people of the US will be killed...but Skynet was designed to protect the US. It knows this, and it knows what its mission is. Anyone who tries to stop it from doing this, or even slow it down, must be an enemy of the US. Including the people within the US, who by that point are panicking ("In a panic, they tried to pull the plug"). So they must actually all be insurgents who are trying to attack the US in secret. So, in a way, Skynet was following its original protocol the whole time.

This video really highlights how weak Ultron is in Avengers 2, the writers are too caught up with anthropomorphising Ultron and did not utilise the power of technology. With his vast intellect supplied by the mind gem, he could have used the internet and cripple the entire world economy, shut down power and water supplies and much more. He doesn't even need nukes to destroy the world.

I for one welcome the opportunity to be converted into stamps by our robot overlords.

Now I want to see a Movie about a stamp collecting AI that kills humanity.

"it's not personal ,just stamp business" -stamp collecting rogue ai