[Elecraft] The future of AI

[Dave New, N8SBE]

I read a book series by William Hertling some number of years ago, about 
Avogadro Corp., a company that reminds me of Google, that had created a 
massive email database so large that it started to think for itself.  It 
started to 'protect' itself by sending false emails to corporate heads, 
acting as other heads, asking for off-shore protected locations for its 
hardware, and eventually creating armed robotic entities to guard those 
sites.

It was a fascinating read, and ended up with a four-book series that I 
found quite interesting.

Do a Google search for "Avogadro science fiction book series"

73,

-- Dave, N8SBE, Hamshack Hotline RIP, HamsOverIP 101018, AmateurWire 
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On 2025-10-18 23:52, Dave (NK7Z) via Elecraft wrote:
> Don't forget the movie...
> 
> 
> 73, and thanks,
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> On 10/18/25 17:23, Art Peters via Elecraft wrote:
>> Colossus, now that is a series of books from the past…
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Oct 18, 2025, at 7:07 PM, KJ7SOY via Elecraft 
>>> <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> D.F. Jones wrote at length about a religion predicated on an AI as 
>>> God in the “Colossus” trilogy in the 1960’s, as have many other 
>>> authors. Mrs. Davis is nothing new. Just the latest in a long line.
>>> 
>>> 73, Adrian
>>> K7RJS
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 18, 2025, at 3:39 PM, David Gilbert via Elecraft 
>>>> <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "It’s not taking over, we’ve invited it."
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> That's already happening too.  I recently saw the results of a poll 
>>>> that said roughly 30% ... of those polled ... believe that the AI 
>>>> Chatbots are an appropriate partner for a relationship, and some 
>>>> take that as far as the relationship being romantic.  I don't think 
>>>> it is too far away that somebody tries to build a religion around 
>>>> AI, and in fact the series "Mrs. Davis" (which is actually a really 
>>>> fun show to watch ... streaming on Peacock) already uses that as its 
>>>> major premise.
>>>> 
>>>> I'm a big supporter of AI, but the problem with AI is humans, not AI 
>>>> itself ... at least not so far since AI is yet to become sentient. 
>>>> By the way, my own "Turing" criteria for when AI becomes sentient to 
>>>> the level of humans is when it intentionally causes harm on its own 
>>>> just because it can.
>>>> 
>>>> Dave   AB7E
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/18/2025 3:06 PM, Jeff KQ4CMA wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Oct 18, 2025, at 4:17 PM, David Gilbert via Elecraft 
>>>>>>>> <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> I think I could argue that there is some evidence of that already 
>>>>>>> ... AI notwithstanding.
>>>>> Exactly. It fits the trend so cleanly that it’s a natural, even 
>>>>> invisible transition. It’s not taking over, we’ve invited it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jeff KQ4CMA
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 10/18/2025 12:39 PM, Michael Carter via Elecraft wrote:
>>>>>>> This article describing studies of the influence of AI tools on 
>>>>>>> human learning begs the question: if humans rein in their 
>>>>>>> independent, creative thought processes for the expedience/speed 
>>>>>>> of AI, and future AI models are trained on the corpus of 
>>>>>>> collective human wisdom, is there a death spiral of societal 
>>>>>>> knowledge into whirlpools of utter ignorance?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 73,