pro tip: never fall asleep to youtube without disabling autoplay. conspiracy nut vids make for some interesting dreams.

Not as interesting as in-depth documentaries on the Donner Party.

(source: personal experience. yikes!)

Or suddenly the volume jumps.

the stereotypical grey goo is usually an example of the kind of narrow AI you are talking about

Grey goo doesn’t require intelligence of any sort tho just the ability to consume resources and replicate.

And it doesn’t even have to be nano machines, HzD is effectively a grey goo scenario with drones that can replicate and can produce essentially biodiesel.

Replication takes some kind of programming, perhaps not a statistical/machine learning type algorithm; but the example of a "navigation ai" also doesn't seem like it would be employing those techniques.

> I put on some science video and walked away recently... came back latter and the autoplay had navigated itself deep into k00ky flat earther stuff.

That's the point of youtube autoplay. You leave it running long enough it'll go through all the videos. That's what makes youtube interesting. At least that's what made youtube deep diving interesting before all the censorship.

You go through enough books in the library and you will eventually find books on alchemy.

Also, you could turn off autoplay with a click of a button...

> That's the point of youtube autoplay. You leave it running long enough it'll go through all the videos. That's what makes youtube interesting. At least that's what made youtube deep diving interesting before all the censorship.

> You go through enough books in the library and you will eventually find books on alchemy.

This might be true if there were only a finite number of videos _before_ getting to the kooky ones, but YouTube tends to get to them disturbingly fast.