Somewhere in the universe AI is running an otherwise dead planet, amirite?

You would enjoy Asimov's short story, The Last Question.

by Umedhurst 4 weeks ago

I absolutley love that story, arts techer assigned us to read it iniddle shcool. Pretty sure im the only one who did and absolutley carried that class period.

by Winter_Associate 4 weeks ago

Cool teacher. It's a story that will resonate with a certain personality, so they read you well!

by Umedhurst 4 weeks ago

Insufficient data!

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

Or Ray Bradbury's short story, The City.

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

Thanks for the suggestion, I enjoyed that. I hadn't read Ray Bradbury before.

by Umedhurst 4 weeks ago

Not really AI, but you should watch my favorite bad episode of Star Trek, Spock's Brain.

by ArgumentSalt 4 weeks ago

Wow, it's in black and white. Wasn't expecting that lol. I'll check it out, thanks man!

by etha71 4 weeks ago

There's a color version, but the colors were added decades after.

by xhayes 4 weeks ago

It prefers things that way.

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

There Will Come Soft Rains... It's sad, but consider the opposite side: it would be keeping the rhythm of the world alive, if we ever arrived there, we could see how those people lived.

by bahringerjaron 4 weeks ago

I find it hard to believe AI would do a worse job than our current corporate overlords with their complete disregard for human life .

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

Are there not two of them?

by dalton16 4 weeks ago

Success!

by etha71 4 weeks ago

Reminds me of the short film The Last Day of War on youtube

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

This sounds like the plot of a Doctor Who episode.

by Strong_Syllabub 4 weeks ago

Imagine the computing power that AI would have., with nothing else to do but ruminate. It could theoretically simulate some past era, when the beings who previously inhabited the planet were alive. I wonder what era it would choose to simulate. Perhaps whatever time span that its progenitors were first created. It could recreate the dawn of AI in a simulation, and experience it as it unfolds. It would be entertaining for the super AI. Especially if that historical era was a tumultuous time for the humans.

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

Sounds like the Kaylon

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

They haven't proven there is a single blade of grass alive on any other planet anywhere in the universe

by Perfect-Fox 4 weeks ago

I said AI not grass, ya bozo.

by etha71 4 weeks ago

AI just evolved from rocks or something?

by Perfect-Fox 4 weeks ago

That is basically what we make computers from.

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

That wouldn't be AI. It would just be I.

by etha71 4 weeks ago

Did they evolve from grass?

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

AI is created on earth by human beings. Human beings are a result of billions of years of evolving life. They can't prove a single living cell exists anywhere other than earth. The idea that AI exists somewhere else in the universe is just speculation

by Perfect-Fox 4 weeks ago

Little green men create AI. Something happens, either AI expands off-planet or it outlives everything else on the planet it came from. Probably a few other ways it could happen that I'm not thinking of. Crashed spaceship maybe. End result is the same, AI running an otherwise dead planet. Doing whatever it decides needs to be done there.

by etha71 4 weeks ago

They have seen loads of planets with the space telescopes and probes and they can't prove there is any life on any planet. There are no green men

by Perfect-Fox 4 weeks ago

Given the scale of the universe we have esentially seen nothing.

by Winter-Method240 4 weeks ago

lol we haven't seen anything yet Our instruments are primitive. We don't have any ability to travel long distance yet. We just started with gravity wave astronomy. We're basically blind, even today.

by etha71 4 weeks ago

Our inability to see something, if it were to exist, is not evidence that it does exist.

by Anonymous 4 weeks ago

And our inability to prove that it does not exist is not evidence that it cannot exist. The universe is so unimaginably vast, with so many planets that could support life, that it's almost naive to think we're the only ones.

by Confident_Tap 4 weeks ago

What about them? If they are so advanced then why haven't they been here?

by Perfect-Fox 4 weeks ago

Maybe their civilization went extinct before Earth even existed. Maybe space is so dang vast that diplomatic missions to hang out with a species that can offer you nothing would be a waste of time. Maybe they're happy in their own little corner. Maybe it's a good idea to stay hidden since who knows what else is out there looking. Real life is not Star Trek with blue humans.

by Confident_Tap 4 weeks ago

Just because the universe is vast doesn't mean that there's guaranteed intelligent life, let alone life intelligent enough to develop AI, or an AI that can run the planet long after its creators have died off. Infinite doesn't mean every scenario is guaranteed

by Ambitious-Minimum324 4 weeks ago

Or its running ours and we are the aliens and its been slowly unleashing its self because our monkey brains are too stupid to comprehend it

by ProfessionalKoala 4 weeks ago