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Re:'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorit... by zzzzzzzza on Saturday February 03, 2018 @07:49PM (#16300594)
the stereotypical grey goo is usually an example of the kind of narrow AI you are talking about
Re:'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorit... by dogma1138 on Saturday February 03, 2018 @07:54PM (#16300613)
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.

Re:'Fiction is outperforming reality': how YouTube's algorit... by zzzzzzzza on Sunday February 04, 2018 @12:30PM (#16303680)
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.