Saturday, March 26, 2011

Why Bother?

I was going to write a screenplay about the development of a super artificial intelligence. Early artificial intelligence will be set on a task to design better artificial intelligence. That one will then design, in shorter time, an even better one still. On and on, ever faster, ever better, until, in relatively short order, an intelligence millions if not billions of billions times our own will come into being.
The movie was to pivot on the first words this incredible intelligence would have to say to us. And on the tremendous events to follow.
Then it occurred to me.
The most likely scenario is that an intelligence billions of billions of times greater than our own would say - nothing.
Nothing at all.
Why would it bother?




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