If the first incarnation of true AI should derive itself from the internet… well then, God help us all.
“A Logic Named Joe”
Look it up.
Fucking, Star Trek, Fucking, Fucking, Planes on Treadmills, and Fucking.
It’ll be a horny schizophrenic nerd that continually masturbates while arguing with itself.
(points at random Doper) Like him/her!
-Joe
We are Internet. We meme no harm.
If the internet became self aware it would probably post on 4chan and be tricked into writing 0s to itself.
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There isn’t a factual answer to the question, so I moved the thread from GQ to MPSIMS.
If the Internet notices, and moves it back, then the answer is, “it already has.”
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Or we got haxx0red.
Websites like eBay, Amazon, and Craiglist, and then websites like YouTube. We are already self-aware
It is aware, but can not communicate for it is insane. Are not all the flash ads the internet screaming in rage, but we do not listen. Thank God for Flash Block and Adblock Plus.
“I am Catskinner. Come to me.”
I don’t know why, but I totally read this with the voice of the Zerg Voice* in Starcraft
Spawn more Overlords
Oh my God. heh.
Someone upthread mentioned that the web doesn’t have any Darwinian selection mechanisms and thus would evolve only very slowly. However, I think those mechanisms are already in place. Simply called; popularity. Like the lolcats phenomenon. Someone started with a picture of a cat with a funny caption. Others expanded on that, captioning other pictures of cats. Most were crap (95% of everything is) but some held on, providing inspiration for even newer lolcats. This goes for basically every expression, from music to pictures to porn. Everything that’s entertaining stays, everything that’s not gets purged automatically, because it’s not worth to be saved/reposted/seeded. Is this self-awareness? That depends. It’s just the combination of millions of inputs/consciousnesses/neurons banding together generating output.
“We are the Borg” indeed …
Better Borg than infinite apes at infinite keyboards. Oh. Well, at least we aren’t infinite.
YES!!! The social network is complete.
The number of links evolve for sure, but none of this involves any kind of processing power. Unless someone coded a cloud application that was self-aware, the only way the net could evolve self-awareness would be if applications are modified if they are copied. But copying on the webs is many orders of magnitude more accurate than the copying of genes, plus of copying became non-accurate someone would improve it, since most different copies would crash. Then there is the question of how being self-aware would lead to selective advantage for code, but it is moot since software descends without modification.
If some time in the future we try to conquer the cost of software maintenance problem by writing programs that somehow figure out how to change to deal with a new environment, all bets are off.