Futuristic Movie Scenarios Already Disproven By Science. In real life, though, if we're leaving ourselves susceptible to any "AI attacks," they're not gonna come in the form of genius supercomputers with the brainpower of 5,0. Stephen Hawkings - - not in the immediate future, anyway. ![]() Nope, it would be a whole lot dumber than that. Like, "Facebook ad trying to sell you an e. Bay/Amazon product you just bought" dumb. Take the stock market, for example. Hey, why can't I vote on comments? Cracked only offers comment voting to subscribing members. Subscribers also have access to loads of hidden content. · Some dealers say the celebrity-photo-trading industry died on the afternoon of Labor Day 2014. An anonymous pornography collector, "OriginalGuy," did the. More and more, stock trading is being left to algorithms which can automatically author strategies and instantly buy and sell stocks, leaving human traders more free time to snort coke and talk about Phil Collins. These algorithms are equipped with the ability to "evolve" on their own, reshaping themselves based on their performance and results. Checked out your chequing account lately? They’re now called ‘banking accounts’, which means no interest on balances. Actually, you have to pay to use them. At. Pretty smart, right? Yes, so smart that whenever Anne Hathaway is in the news, AI traders have been known to get confused and bump up the stock of Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire- Hathaway. We've told you about the random British dude who was messing with automated traders and caused a ripple effect which crashed the stock market for a few minutes. In 2. 01. 2, an American firm lost $4. In all those cases, an initial error was quickly amplified by the algorithms "learning" from each other. So what if these rapidly evolving programs get so far up their robo- asses that they begin acting under some destructive logic only they understand, wrecking our economy? Not because they're "self- aware" or because they've determined that humanity is TOO SICK TO SURVIVE, but out of pure digital stupidity? Now consider the fact that algorithms like that are popping up everywhere. They determine you'll probably have Arby's tonight. They figure out where you live without you telling them. They decided your paranoid uncle really, really needed to see this on his Facebook feed: via Twipe"But hey, what's the worst that could come out of this?" - someone in a coma since last November. As the world becomes increasingly automated and machines become more capable of going beyond their initial programming, we're gonna grow more and more vulnerable to these robot "revolutions" that are really nothing but software algorithms so impossibly complicated, making decisions at such mind- boggling speed, that no human will fully understand. If this results in the machines stumbling ass- backwards into a future populated by mechanical Arnolds marching down the streets .. For more ways movies let us down big time, check out The 8 Most Common Sci- Fi Visions of the Future (And Why They'll Never Happen) and 6 Pieces of Sci- Fi Technology That Make No Sense. Subscribe to our You. Tube channel, and check out Why The Scariest Sci- Fi Robot Uprising Has Already Begun, and other videos you won't see on the site! Follow us on Facebook, and we'll follow you everywhere. Get intimate with our new podcast Cracked Gets Personal . Subscribe for great episodes like The Most Insane Things We Saw In Embergency Medicine and 3 Wild Stories from Inside the Opiate Epidemic, available wherever you get your podcasts. Get the latest international news and world events from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and more. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews.com.
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