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newbie
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August 20, 2018, 06:32:50 AM
#8
the global warming will most prolly kill us dumb humans before skynet even learns to cook tea .

but i like this new sales pitch of yours ! t - shirt worthy for sure !

Bitcoin is the start of skynet and the end of humanity!!


copper member
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August 20, 2018, 03:34:24 AM
#7

Any program that can make a decision based on data is an AI.  Bitcoin fits that definition.  


That's a very loose definition of AI, and a far cry from the multi-layered convolutional neural networks that are used these days to do real machine learning. Bitcoin does make decisions based on data, but it cannot learn anything or change it's 'mind' in anyway because it's just a dumb algorithm.

I read a very interesting book a while back by Dr Roger Penrose called "The Emperors New Mind" in which he presented the evidence for his opinion that computers can never actually become conscious no matter how clever the algorithms they are running. I won't pretend I understood much of the mathematics or physics presented, but I believe I did grasp the main thrust of the argument that consciousness itself is not algorithmic in nature and computers can only ever be completely algorithmic.

Good read I recommend it.
newbie
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August 20, 2018, 03:28:54 AM
#6
Yep, and Satoshi Nakamoto's real name is John Conor, the person who coined the "easy money" meme back in 1990s  Grin
newbie
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August 20, 2018, 03:12:45 AM
#5
Bitcoin transactions will not be lost while there is an internet. Even if you want to destroy Bitcoin it means you have to delete the internet.
Vod
legendary
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Licking my boob since 1970
August 20, 2018, 03:11:07 AM
#4
But after all, bitcoin is not an artificial intelligence, so it can not be similar to skynet ...

Any program that can make a decision based on data is an AI.  Bitcoin fits that definition.  

Just like comparing a fruitfly to a human - they both think - one just does it a billion times better.   Smiley
jr. member
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August 20, 2018, 03:08:35 AM
#3
But after all, bitcoin is not an artificial intelligence, so it can not be similar to skynet ...
copper member
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August 20, 2018, 02:53:38 AM
#2
No chance at all, Bitcoin has nothing to do with AI
hero member
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June 10, 2017, 10:43:06 AM
#1
Has anyone else thought about how bitcoin will eventually lead to skynet. In the terminator movies it was eventually stated (in T3, though i think they essentially removed that movie from the canon later on) that skynet couldn't be shutdown because it was just software running on servers all around the world. Decentralized.

More specifically, bitcoin lead to ethereum, ethereum leads to skynet.

Bitcoin is the start of skynet and the end of humanity!!




But in the meantime we'll make a boatload of cash before the end of the world
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