From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 02:33:51 MST
Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
> As to an spontaneously emerged (or deliberately seeded) AI in the
> global network, it is going to generate a lot of strange traffic
> between the infected nodes. People are going to notice, and start with
> countermeasures.
I read a paper somewhere on the net where some researchers had studied
exactly what kinds of traffic got to their network, and they found
beside the normal traffic, a few intrusion attempts, some chernobyl
packets and a lot of broken packets several odd packets they couldn't
identify. They suggested that there are more weirdness in the net than
is currently expected.
I don't think we will see the Net suddenly waking up to become a god,
I think we are already seeing the primordial soup where selfish
packets and computer-memes spread. It will take a few billion
internet-years for them to evolve into something smart.
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