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Re:The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the media by red75prime on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:59AM (#14910136)
> I can hardly imagine anything worse than us.

Universe full of computronium, solving Collatz conjecture?

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Re:The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the media by lemondrops on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:16AM (#14910262)
Would it implode if the conjecture was disproved?
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Re:The 'creepy Facebook AI' story that captivated the media by red75prime on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:33AM (#14910385)
Maybe, but it's worst case scenario. AI can't prove, nor disprove, nor prove improvability of the conjecture, because shortest proof requires 10^200 terabytes.
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