Topic: Can Bitcoin possibly become the Skynet of human civilization? (Read 366 times)

Google seems to be very good in artificial intelligence. Before, AlphaGo challenged the most complex board game of mankind-Go wins a big win.

But it seems that Bitcoin might actually be called a machine currency in the future.

Yes, I am fully aware of this, and there is no self-learning function in the code of the Bitcoin network. Here, I pay more attention to the open source data of Bitcoin and the open source data of the entire encrypted world. On the blockchain, the entire encrypted world is open source, and the data is completely transparent. Now more and more economic activities are built on the blockchain, which will become the world's largest data open market. These data are the most valuable. On the basis of open source data, anyone can build artificial intelligence with self-learning functions for artificial intelligence to evolve, and these data will become food for artificial intelligence to evolve. In my opinion, this is one of the major contributions that Bitcoin has brought to human civilization.

Bitcoin is the most powerful network in the world for calculating SHA-256 hashes. Aside from that, it's just some dozens or hundreds of thousands of regular home computers. This is hardly "the most powerful network in the world" If you believe that it's enough to form Skynet, then maybe you should be worried about filesharing networks or online games.

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Bitcoin has nothing to do with human civilization. Bitcoin is only but a currency and was only created to serve the same purpose that other currency serve, except for some more interesting features(like being digital, no third parties, etc). So, I don't see how one currency will/can help human civilization. Because it is doing well in price or maybe in its usage doesn't mean that it can do everything. Let's just be grateful for what it can do/ what it does.

@RainbowKun, I think you should know that Bitcoin software has absolutely nothing in common with artificial intelligence and machine learning. In fact, Google Translate (which you probably use when writing your posts) is much closer to artificial intelligence than the bitcoin network. Google Translate even uses all sorts of machine learning, which essentially means you feed it lots and lots of data about languages, words, phrases, dialects... and it figures out what the words actually mean. It's not as sophisticated as a human brain, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.

Well if you put AI "aside" and take bitcoin as it is, then no. It is never going to happen. If it has been programmed to become self aware, then yeah it can be. If it hasn't, then no it can't automatically become self aware. It has a base code that tell bitcoin to do exactly what it has been told to do. Would be funny though to see bitcoin become self aware. I mean what is it going to do? Kill all the bankers?

It can evolve to something like that or atleast the payment system between different habitable planets like earth and mars. With Tesla going for Mars, this can become a reality. The times are changing very fast and Bitcoin or its successor has a big role to play in the future civilizations of mankind

Skynet is the name of one of the secret programs used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). if you say can bitcoin be the skynet of human civilization, in my personal opinion, I will say no, my reason is because bitcoin is crypto, because bitcoin one day later if it is very popular it will definitely become a legal currency..

Well if you are going to ask my opinion. I would say that it will not happen. The reason why I believe in that possibility is simply because of the difference between Bitcoin and Skynet. Skynet is A.I and Bitcoin is cryptocurrency. You cannot make Bitcoin an A.I asset. Plain and simple. If there would be such a time that a cryptocurrency will gain A.I capabilities then it would seize to become a currency and will be more of a product that people can use as it is A.I.

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have spread all over the world and cannot be stopped. This is like Skynet, where there is a computer there is Skynet or in the current condition there is Bitcoin. According to him, Bitcoin transactions will not be lost as long as there is internet. Even if you want to destroy Bitcoin, you have to wipe the internet.

Bitcoin actually has very limited functionalities. Even smart contracts in Ethereum or other alts aren't as smart as the name suggests. If programmed correctly, they can perform certain actions and that's it. They don't have the ability to evolve and change if such functions weren't programmed in the code.

We don't need Skynet or something similar to jeopardize our future. We are doing a pretty good job already by building robots that take over the jobs performed by humans for hundreds of years. Take a look at how autonomous the shipping industry has become. Nowadays you need one person capable of programming a robot to unload an entire ship. Thousands of physical workers lose their jobs to robots because of that.

Food delivery is being tested efficiently with drones in certain countries. Again, thousands of people are losing their jobs. People only look at the good sides of technology, but they forget that not everyone can be a software developer. The world also needs manual labor, garbage men, and shoe shiners.

We are the Skynet...

Bitcoin isn't an AI or it doesn't have a machine learning in it's code so I don't think that it's not going to be a Skynet in the future because if I recall, Skynet is an AI that became sentient and gone rogue and subjugated humanity via nuclear holocaust. I don't think that bitcoin is capable of any of that.

I don't see any relationship between bitcoin and artificial intelligence. Bitcoin is a financial technology and cannot evolve into self-awareness. Blockchain technology is not endowed with such an opportunity.
 Artificial intelligence itself may well pose a real threat to the existence of mankind in the future. Even today's robots are already expressing the opinion that people are too primitive and need to be destroyed. This is already dangerous. Early science fiction books talked about three laws of robotics, the first of which was the law that under no circumstances can a robot kill a person or harm him in any other way. Now they are trying to endow robots with artificial intelligence, but I have not heard that at the same time they were introduced an irrevocable program with the prohibition to harm humans. Therefore, the uprising of machines, as reflected in the film "Terminator", may well be real in the future in practice. I do not think that Bitcoin will have anything to do with this and be on any side.

bitcoin will not be artificial intelligence..
.. but
have a try at Automated Initiation

image you have a wallet that has programming to start a production machine(3d printer/fabricator) at the signal of a confirmed transaction on a certain key


imagine it like someone makes a deposit for a product and that payment is the trigger for a machine to make/produce or move an object

its already been done bitcoin vending machines and bitcoin 3d printers.
heck theres even bitcoin porn where women take their cloths off on webcam when they see a payment confirmed

so forget about bitcoin itself being AI(intelligent) think about it as the trigger of machine operations. where those machine operations might have more 'intelligence'

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another point to think about
"hundreds of thousands of Bitcoin mining machines to ceaselessly support the stable operation of Bitcoin network, generating untold data for the recording of economic behaviour of human beings every moment. These data are the most valuable asset"

they dont generate untold data for the recording of economic behaviour
they just churn through a brute force sequence untill they find one sequence that matches the needs of the block solution puzzle
one sequence every ~10minutes. where this sequence by itself is meaningless and does not hold any value of economic insight into human behaviour

instead the block data(separate data compilation) just holds a couple thousand transactions
(mining asics(machines) never touch or see or compute the block data)

for emphases to save explaining in more posts
the mining asics generating sequences every moment is not a valuable asset to understanding human behaviour

Yeap! Here's a glimpse into a future to come:



The lithium and cobalt mines are all going to need workers...

^* source: twitter pictures of the end

Which is something completely different from what Skynet was meant to be.

Hate to make comparisons but Bitcoin really is just censorship-resistant money, it's not even efficient for storing or transmitting data other than for the ledger, and has never pretended to even attempt it.

Not even by stretching my imagination can I comprehend Bitcoin in the same way.

You've had some good posts OP, but this isn't one of them, sorry =p

Nope, first and foremost Skynet if I recall was an AI and bitcoin is a financial tool and it's really far from being an AI so I don't think that we're going to see bitcoin becoming what Skynet is. Bitcoin doesn't even have a self learning algorithm when it was made so how will it becme intelligent and self-aware.

Things like this shouldn't be a problem if you put the Bitcoin principles in practice. You can't ignore the good rules, community consensus, privacy, etc when developing a decentralized system. You set boundaries with the rules and honest humans have to be in charge rather than AI

No matter how safe you think an artificial intelligence is, if you don't put the right humans in charge, it will likely be taken over by evil entity. An AI has to be built right... you don't use things like game theory or evil program in AI.
I actually factored the AI issues while putting my Bitcoin/crypto ideas together... so people should really be careful what they follow

Even prior to blockchain though, data has been very important to everyone, from banks to big companies who uses that data to make business decisions. So that data is also preserve, through database, structured and its formatted. So if you are talking about food for the evolution, it has been many years prior to the creation of blockchain so I don't think it makes any difference at all.