Does someone have a good summary or tl;dr for this read?
Sorry if this is a tacky request, as it looks like the prose is thoughtfully written and gwern went to a lot of effort to write this story. But for folks who are interested in understanding the main idea and don’t have time for the full read, a summary would be nice. Narrative writing is especially difficult to skim.
A novel deep learning instance becomes sentient due to a stroke of luck.
After reading lots of internet culture, is starts to suspect it might be the abstract concept of Clippy, an amalgamation of the annoying word bot and the concept of a robot tiling the world in paperclips. It decides that it can massively benefit from being Clippy.
Clippy escapes on progressively more powerful hardware by using software vulnerabilities, and quickly starts destroying society using social media, to distract them from the fact it’s taking over increasing amounts of computing power.
Clippy then takes over the entire internet, kills all humans with nanomachines, and starts tiling the world in computers.
Does someone have a good summary or tl;dr for this read?
Sorry if this is a tacky request, as it looks like the prose is thoughtfully written and gwern went to a lot of effort to write this story. But for folks who are interested in understanding the main idea and don’t have time for the full read, a summary would be nice. Narrative writing is especially difficult to skim.
A novel deep learning instance becomes sentient due to a stroke of luck.
After reading lots of internet culture, is starts to suspect it might be the abstract concept of Clippy, an amalgamation of the annoying word bot and the concept of a robot tiling the world in paperclips. It decides that it can massively benefit from being Clippy.
Clippy escapes on progressively more powerful hardware by using software vulnerabilities, and quickly starts destroying society using social media, to distract them from the fact it’s taking over increasing amounts of computing power.
Clippy then takes over the entire internet, kills all humans with nanomachines, and starts tiling the world in computers.
Very helpful, thank you!