A provocative paper from 2013 proposed that complex intelligent behaviour may emerge from a fundamentally simple physical process. The theory offers novel prescriptions for how to build an AI — but it also explains how a world-dominating superintelligence might come about, such as the Terminator franchise’s Skynet system. And on this day, 25 years on from the release of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, we thought it appropriate to revisit this novel, slightly unsettling thesis.
How Skynet Might Emerge From Simple Physics was originally published on iSeeTech