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OpenAI's offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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OpenAI's offices were sent thousands of paper clips in an elaborate prank to warn about an AI apocalypse::The prank was a reference to the "paper clip maximizer" scenario – the idea that AI could destroy humanity if it were told to build as many paper clips as possible.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Presumably the same people who thought that the Large Hadron Collider was going to create a black hole that would destroy the world.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Nah, AI doing weird stuff is actually possible. Armageddon isn't likely, but it's more on the table than a black hole ever was.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Yeah and vaccines make you magnetic. Science bad.

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