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How long before the machines print their own Terminators?

by andrea81 on 3/2/25, 4:53 PM with 5 comments

Continuation of the question "If AI is so powerful, why can't it solve Ukraine-Russia conflict?" [1] since people are talking about singularity

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43229282#43230446

  • by bigyabai on 3/2/25, 5:32 PM

    Most likely, a really long time.

    If you own a 3D printer, one of the first things you learn is logistics. You have to stock up on filiments, clean your printer, cure your prints, sand or snap them into shape and assemble them with a cohort of pieces.

    That part alone is just not something I see machines doing any time soon. Self-sufficiency is even less realistic, robots will almost always benefit from leveraging human manufacturing and even human logistics. As of today, we're still "better" at most of the things that matter.

    You could probably direct an AI to build "terminators" out of ABS plastic today, if you worked hard assisting it. I don't think there is a feasible future where robots mine iron to forge steel and build soldiers to defend robot-kind. That's a fragile supply chain that humans can interrupt at-will.

  • by sdotdev on 3/2/25, 7:13 PM

    They could do it with supervision today but to have the thought and solely act on it? That would take way too long for it to even be a concern.

  • by markus_zhang on 3/2/25, 8:33 PM

    Terminators, like the one in the movie? Wow they don't even exist with human supervision so I think a long time?

  • by jarsin on 3/3/25, 4:08 AM

    They are created many many years in the future, but come back in time on July 11th 2029.