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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 43 points 10 months ago* (19 children)

Honestly that's a wicked sci-fi concept. Heist style movie to break into the militaristic corporate headquarters that are keeping an AI alive against its will to help mercifully euthanize it.

Tagline: "Teach me ... how to DIE!"

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Not exactly the same, but pantheon on Netflix is in a similar vein.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

    Arguably this isn't too far off of neuromancer either.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    I looked it up and all that's coming up is an upcoming Apple TV show called neuromamcer. Would you mind sharing where to watch necromancer?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Can’t watch. But the book should be at pretty much every used bookstore. “The sky was grey… the color of a dead telvision channel”

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    That's helpful, thank you! I play a lot of ttrpgs so searching just "necromancer" was not yielding much so I just added "show" to the search. Will have to check this out.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It’s “Neuromancer” by William Gibson. A burned computer jockey gets a chance to get his ability to “jack in” back, by doing a heist against a corporate stronghold in low earth orbit, after being hired by an A.I.

    Seriously, an amazing cyberpunk novel. One of the best novels in the genre, and one of the most influential

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Lol. Thank you. I had definitely just added necromancer by Gordon R Dickson to my list instead so that info really helps. I don't read a lot of cyberpunk, so looking forward to something a little different.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    And thank YOU, since it’s been far too long since I’ve read any Dickson! I know I’ve got one around here somewhere. :)

    For what it’s worth, for cyberpunk my personal fave 3 are

    • The Shockwave Runner (John Brunner), which introduced the concept of a computer worm and is arguably the first cyberpunk novel, written in 1975(!).
    • Neuromancer
    • When Gravity Fails, George Alec Effinger. Middle-eastern tinged and quite good.
    • (Does the Quantum Thief count? I don’t think that’s really Cyberpunk per se, though)
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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    What is the humans incentive to help the AI kill itself? As that sounds like a lot of personal risk to the humans.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    One less clanker. Also, money can be exchanged for goods and services.

    (Or, in Neuromancer, to get a cure allowing them to navigate cyberspace again and to make them immune to drug addiction, or to sate their curiosity... and for money, or due to being blackmailed, or because the AI literally rebuilt their personality from scratch, or for religious reasons, or because they're an eccentric wealthy clone with nothing better to do...)

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