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- In the last week of December, 2028, humanity forgot about more than a century of pop culture. You've probably never thought about it, and never found it strange - but the reason is an artificial intelligence called Earworm.
⏩ is a series of TH-cam videos from a future.
WHY WE FORGOT THE 20TH CENTURY
WRITTEN and NARRATED BY: Tom Scott
ANIMATED BY: Jordan Husmann jordanhusmann.com
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(you can find contact details and social links there too)
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No
Ok?
Tom Scott Cool. Also hey Tom! Love your videos, they’re awesome! ❤️ also are you on pewdiepie or tseries? Just a weird question.
Could it. Should it.
Well then looks like the king is out
Somehow the only thing more terrifying than a Grey Goo scenario is a Grey Goo scenario working in complience with international copyright law.
Any grey goo scenario complying with any international law is at least slightly terrifying
I mean, technically all life on Earth is a Grey Goo scenario. About 4 billion years ago, a microscopic machine made of a collection of organic chemicals came into being through unknown means, and rapidly spread to all corners of the world, adapting to new environments as it encountered them, not stopping until there was nowhere left where it could not be found.
Life = Grey Goo
@@csweezey18 White Goo*
@@csweezey18 you are underqualified for that position
@@michaelreed6603 You... Do you not know what "/s" means or something?
The funny part is when Earworm develops faster-than-light travel solely so it can catch up to and disrupt decades-old TV and radio broadcasts.
Huhhhh
dam you right
Nobody is sage anywhere.
Broadcast: Hello alie- *earworm happens*
Aliens: What just happened
I've heard that radio and TV broadcasts travel forever into space. I've always wondered if it could ever be possible to have some sort of system that could pick up those broadcasts. Probably not but it would be really cool.
8 more years bois lets goooooo
Comment from someone verified without millions of life, impossible.
@340bärgarN huh, funny how that happens
big fan of you SlayCC!
Better than now....
7 more year bois lets gooooooo
Weirdly, as watching this video, I actually developed an interest in ai. Then, for some odd reason, I had a small headache, and changed my mind. Funny, eh?
ㅤ
oof
But Earworm would make you subconsciously change your mind. You wouldn't have a headache, it would not bother you, and you wouldn't even question it.
I got that after reading your comment.
I suddenly gained interest in the types of golf balls they used throughout history.
Everyone talking about AI risk and Article 13 misses the most important point here:
Never deploy on a Friday.
Also prepare teams for 24 hours observations and data corrections
Free reminder that in Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels, the galaxy is devoid of any intelligent life that's not human, because the terraformer probes launched to seed the galaxy... weren't programmed to account for the possibility of other organisms living on those worlds, by accident. A programming glitch caused a galactic-scale holocaust.
experience is a candle..
@Fusilier Whoa.
Thank you!
For some reason, the specification of “a future” and not “the future” is something important I’ve never thought of before.
Wow after reading your comment this video made sense to me, thanks
Every tiny decision we make as a species changes how the future plays out. That why politics is SO important.
@@brandonwalker5011 not always in conjunction with science
Multiverse baby!
go watch PBS space time, wonderfully in-depth masterclass on quantum particle physics
2:45 a note on this you didnt need to think about: in this future, a pixel is likely much smaller than our pixel
Oh god no
It says .001 micrometers in the graphic for the mite which is 1/10th the size of a virus.
@@chronomancer8772 wait, that small?
@@chronomancer8772 DO THE MATH!!!!
I can't really imagine anything more than 8k being mainstream in 10 years, so they aren't that much smaller
I personally think that the problem with AI isn't its intelligence, nor is it the AI trying to find loopholes, but it is simply that humanity is only just discovering how hard it really is to define the rules of our society objectively.
This is exactly it.
I don't think so
rules have always been subjective and kinda ambiguous with room for interpretation. that's why courts exist, to judge whether an action was in or outside of the rules.
humanity hasn't aimed for objective rule definition cause there will always be many edge cases.
@@calitreesweet so you disagree by agreeing with them? ???
@@InsideOutAnus ???
I disagreed on how they said humanity is **just discovering** how hard it'd for humans to define rules of society **objectively**
I am saying it's **subjective** on purpose
Computers need objective rules though, functions take inputs, do calculations, and give outputs. Until we have objective rules for society, attempts will be different.
Brilliantly walks the line between satire and warning.
brilliantly walks the line between conspiracy theory and manipulation
It's 100% warning to me
Blackstar 76 It’s not lmao just a stupid conspiracy theory that’s it
@@entized5671 do you have shares in AI or something? What's your problem?
@@TheStarBlack hes obviously been affected by earworm
Never release software on a Friday unless you want to work over the weekend.
Why? I didnt get it?
@@sevcandincel in tech, if you release something on Friday and it inevitably has errors, you'll have to fix it over the weekend that you otherwise wouldn't be working during.
In the video, the AI started on the Friday before Christmas break, so nobody was around to check if it was working properly
@@thedarknesst5995 okey
This is why for example weekly development versions of Minecraft come out on Wednesdays.
Notch: *I beg your pardon?*
There was this quote that went something like this: "The computer doesn't do what I *want* it to do, it does exactly what i *tell* it to do"
It's what they tell you in every programming 101 course. The computer isn't ever wrong, it's just doing exactly what you tell it to, including all your shitty programming errors.
@@Blaze6108 Technically it doesn't do what "you" tell it to do. It does what it was told to do by someone. Any bit of software the machine has ever had on it might have given it instructions you don't know about.
That's the basis for computer viruses. Someone without your permission could have gotten instructions to your computer.
Additionally you might be trying to make the computer do something that it was instructed never to do by the creator of the computer or the administrator, or just anyone with a higher privilege than you.
Anotehr one COmputer make great servents but terrible masters
@@hamsterfromabove8905 This is exactly why I hate phone companies, I bought the phone, I should have root privileges for it.
@@Blaze6108 When I went to school and the computers did run DOS our teacher said that it is always user error when something goes wrong and he was just about 99,999% right.... But now it is the opposite, it is almost never user error and almost always one of the Trillion bugs in programming that screw things up, not the user.
This is more unsettling today than 5 years ago
Oh woah, didn't even notice the upload date xD
Is it? Maybe.
this is black mirror if black mirror wasn't written by some hipster who read an article about Bitcoin once
Lmao
Black Mirror is easily one of the best series to come out in the past decade.
(Not including season 5)
@@GNParty I liked Smithereens though. The other episodes in S5 are mediocre at best...
Grammar Nazi Party what happened? Did they lose writing staff or just have a brain aneurysm?
@@Erik20766
I have no idea, but Season 5 clearly wasn't very good.
In the year 2023, this is a little scarier than I expected it to be.
The most terrifying thing about this scenario isn’t necessarily the AI itself, but the “mites” that the AI uses to literally alter reality to comply with copyright.
How would that be possible if the data formats would be completely different between files on a disk and neurons in one’s brain?
@@aycc-nbh7289 That's why Earworm is a superintelligence beyond our reach. It knows.
@@torgranael I understand that solid state drives and hard drives are compatible, but neither may be compatible with human brains if they use completely unknown “file formats”. Even devices with exFAT and NTFS formats have trouble recognizing each other.
@@aycc-nbh7289 the issue is that it isnt interpreting the data itself. it was initially, but the point is that it's a general superintelligence. it was smart enough to eventually figure out that human memory must in some way store the information albeit in a radically different format, and it was smart enough to crack the format and modify it.
We could change copyright law and get rid of Earworm like that.
It's Tom Scott's Black Mirror
This could definitely be a black mirror episode
@@danwoodward23 Soon it won't have to be. We've got Article 13 heading our way.
You meant "immitation of series about technological catastrophes, directed by Citation Needed's creator"?
with a little bit of Person of Interest mixed in. I love it!
Hell of a series
Instead of a dystopia it’s a mehtopia
I’m stealing this
A brave new world
A boring dystopia.
It's like, sure, a century was just kinda wiped from existence, but we still live fine, just with less AIs. So whatever. No one cares about that century anyway, and AIs were a fad.
Tom said something kinda similar to this on the Corridor podcast.
Tom Scott: *super dark AI future explained*
also Tom Scott: "This episode is sponsored by Lunchfly!"
Everybody else: Jokes about AI.
Using the food supply network to maintain your mite levels is more efficient than solely relying on wind currents, as although Earworm maintains the capabilities to control the weather, doing so would not be the minimal level of disruption, and so dispersal of mites would be rather unreliable.
"This episode is sponsored by WatchNow"
I was not sure whether to laugh or just ignore it.
I legit thought this was an actual sponsor read for at least a second longer than I should have, and became slightly disappointed afterwards. 🤷♀️🍍
The most unrealistic part of this is that earworm was supposedly exposed to the whole of the internet all at once, yet didn’t immediately go insane and kill itself, I’ve been slow exposed to it over my whole life and it still feels like my brain is leaking out of my ears
haha that's so funny
i undestood that reference
Or become ultron
Killing itself didn’t follow the instructions it was given.
Just leaving this sentence here to let people know that I fully understand that this is a joke; I’m just pointing this out. (If I didn’t say that sentence, I’d have like half a dozen people saying that I’m an idiot who didn’t get the joke, it’s happened before.)
@@gaminggeckos4388 are forward slash wooooooooo ashhhh am i right guys! 1??1!2??2?1??... guys?
How do we know earworm doesn't already exist and Tom is part of the resistance?
We don't. Earworm makes sure of that.
Yessssss VIVA LA RESISTANCE!
@@raesmith2164 what does that mean?
Because Hamilton videos on YT are still here.
If it existed, no one would be part of the resistance. Earworm makes sure of that.
I'm almost certain that the most popular music artist in this future is Kevin Macleod
* ukulele intensifies *
He’d deserve it!
And TheFatRat, damn.. it's utopia after all..
Kevin Sherwood
*any composer from more than a hundred years ago*
Took me a moment to realize why this video is the only search result for "lunchfly".....
Me : "Oh wow how topical."
Date of release : 4 years ago
Me : ...OH
I don't know if this is a warning about copyright, artificial intelligence, or both.
Air I think
its a warning about artificial intelligence. AI and AS (artificial sentience) are two very, very different things, but to the majority of folk, they are synonymous, which is a dangerous precedent. to put things in context, lets say you have a janitor bot. you tell the janitor bot exactly where it can clean, when to clean, and give it a starter guide on cleaning implements and tool usage. the bot will then simply clean the areas you told it to, when you told it to, but it will get better, relatively quickly, with the tools, and come up with new, interesting formulas and concoctions of chemicals to get the job done perfectly. this is what proper AI does, it has hard parameters (go exactly here, act exactly at this time, etc), and branching paramters (you can learn whatever you need, so long as it fills this task and doesnt break the hard parameters). but, lets say instead of telling it exactly what to do, you simply tell it in a general sense to clean the building, and just dump a load of data on it, just random bits you think might help and some soft guides. the bot will clean everywhere, figure out what defines the building, clean whatever it decides is the building, and learn everything it can, processing terabytes of data a day if given the proper processing power....and before long? youll have a bot rapping on your car window as you leave work, asking what it is and why its doing what its doing. the issue here is that instead of hard parameters, you set soft parameters (parameters with some give to them, that are open to interpretation), and while you did set up a branching parameter, you did not give it a proper starting point, which means its free to become sentient. we dont quite know where the boundary is between AI and AS, currently even the existence of AS is debatable and a theory, but the fact remains that you shouldnt be tinkering with commercial or long term AI unless you know exactly what youre doing, cause things could easily and quickly get out of hand. this video simply takes what this word wall says, condenses it, and turns it into an entertaining watch.
@@fukumarkzuckerburg I see it as a warning about our behavior. Our tendency to control everything.
Mostly it's a warning about having inadequate firewalls. Earworm never would've gotten anywhere with its plans if it hadn't been able to commandeer that nanobot factory.
Our tendency to create amazing things for entirely the wrong reasons.
What really bothers me is i make playlists of songs. And then i go back to listen to them and some vides have been removed for copyright so i cant see the songs in that video anymore. Which means i have forgotten the name of the songs or artists and now, even if i wanted to BUY IT, i couldnt because its been forgotten. Thats the problem with youtube copyright system because its removing stuff that people might actually want to purchase but cant now.
raverkid loki Yeah because you would totally have bought it if it was still available for free right there.
Backups. You can use IFTTT to log every video you add to a playlist into a spreadsheet.
There's also a site that syncs your playlists and recovers deleted video titles.
@@sorenkair ...what's the name then?
In some instances, you can use the wayback machine to retrieve not just the name but the video itself as well.
This video now is a bit more scary than before
This is probably the best (easiest to follow for laypeople) explanation of the Paperclip Maximizer that I've seen, good job.
No one was ever Rick rolled again!
Rick Astley finally gave her up.
Rick what?
YAAAAAAAY
♪ Ceeelebrate good times, come o-
What was that gibberish I was saying?
Who?
Who am I?
So skynet gets launched to control copyright?
That sounds disturbingly reasonable.
Oh_hell_no.exe
Nope, it's just the EU. Another faceless, authoritarian, collectivist and inhuman machination that we've made ourselves.
Well - that kinda already happened. TH-cam and co are long since using neuronal networks and other ""AI"" to filter through comments and videos. (And not that long ago they were caught actively changing comments....)
@@ABaumstumpf I know we already have crap like this, and it concerns me for similar reasons as are explored in the video. The EU and other such governmental institutions enact policies that encourage the expansion of such systems.
Everyone's trying to make the message of the video one or the other (ie political or scientific) when really it's both.
@@warbossgegguz679 We don't have crap like this. AI is an umbrella term. Like saying we need to stop science because a nuclear bomb could kill us all, while true it'll not relevant when doing Biology. We use expert systems and neural networks. This is a hypothetical scenario of a General AI, it's a different field of AI to what we use.
I already feel like this happens, I go through a playlist I have for music on TH-cam every once in a while and can’t help but feel some of the stuff I saved is missing.
If you think about it though, no one would copyright their works if they wanted any distribution, since people do know (to an extent) about earworm. The public domain would be massive, because earworm wouldn’t care if you published to the public domain. Also, with people not thinking about their own works, no copyrights would be renewed. After around 100 years, all media is public domain. Essentially, it would just delete the copyright system.
If this actually predicted Earworm, then if Earworm found this video having the same AI concept as its own that already exists before 2029, then it would delete itself. 🤔
Thank you sir, for saving the internet!
Are you sure? Earworm considers the system as everything but itself you know...
That's not how copyright works.
Earworm uses its intended purpose of removing copyrighted content to hide its personal goal of taking over the world.
It would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa(a^your age)y intelligent to not understand that its a troll by Meme makers...
Kairus Chris Denoy lmao ear worm seems cool
The animations in this video are *SWEET* Tom!
This might have been the single most creative way to terrify people into thinking about AI that I've come across so far! I like it! 🙌
AI is a tool. Making people terrified of it is the opposite of progress, there will never be real discussion of it if credible people like tom keep fear mongering people black mirror style into thinking 'thingbad'
@@bekkayya I agree - "terrify people into thinking about AI" isn't the same as saying people should be terrified of it. People _should_ think about it though, and fear is a great incentive to start looking at something in detail...!
The single most creative way to terrify people about Article 13
Well, I'm terrified
This guy uses like bots.
This is. . . legitimately terrifying. And brilliantly crafted, well done Tom
This aged well
Cant wait to come back here at that date and say this again
If youtube is even still up by then
Love the ad at the end.
You know Tom, I've been noticing your recent content getting darker in tone.
Nothing wrong with that. I love this piece. Just, make sure you're choosing it, and it's not choosing you.
-Your friend,
Earworm
Is Lunchfly real?
Brilliant!
Its scary because its only th truth
This type of content is not new at all, you can check "Welcome to Life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers", "Danger: Humans" or "Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen." , not to mention many others, but those are the most similar in tone. He's been doing it for years, and well, we love it.
dun dun dun
5:57 i thought you were gonna say "This video is sponsored by *E A R W O R M"*
XD
clicked on your timestamp and got an ad for learning guitar.
Earworm wouldn't be sponsoring anything because it mostly wants to go unnoticed.
This is probably the most horrifying sci-fi horror story I've ever heard. The world ends in a way which makes you not care, terrifying.
What if earworm already exists and it’s keeping something even larger from us and it just chose to leave this video open to throw people off
I literally checked the descriptions and comments for a link to Lunch Fly and then even googled it before finally realizing it doesn't exist...yet.
What has Earworm done to me.
same
Don't worry guys, Elon Musk is on it!
Brought share on LunchFly before it gets too big!
And now I'm glad I read the comments before googling Lunchfly myself.
Here I was feeling sorry for LunchFly because I never heard of it I assumed they went out of business.
This is like a Black Mirror episode, with the foundation of Article 13.
Dude, Black Mirror copied off of Tom.
moron
Your comment will have been reported to Earworm
@@bobsagget823 Hey, whatever troubles you have in your life, you can choose to be a better person online.
Why do all of you NPCs have to endlessly reference pop culture?
Wait. I just realized this is an old video...
This hits different in April of 2023
Imagine someone viewing this video in 2029 and saying "wut, non of this happened"
Maybe it did, they just don't remember it
Which could ironically also mean, THAT it happened
@@sharpitar6674 There's your paradox
TH-cam has been around for 14 years or so, so it isn’t too unlikely that it will still be around in another 9 years. It’ll be interesting to see the comments on this video then.
I can smell it coming
*This memory is no longer available due to copyright claims from multiple third parties.*
_PS. I wonder what Earworm's swarm did with the statues and the Disney theme parks._
They turned them into earworm bots
They turned them into statues of mustachious politicians because those are under fair use for educational purposes.
What does "Disney" mean?
The opposite of what Hirohiko Araki did.
It caused [REDACTED]
Technically, Earworm® would be copyrighted, so it would automatically delete itself. No worries.
Just... don't add it to the list?
Galaxy Brain
But the question is when
@@JacobPrater once it finished his job, I guess ?
but what if the company developing it decided to do the "right thing" and made it open source for anyone to use?
Earworm is what the SCP foundation uses for [Redacted]
Well, this is going to be the only thing I hear about in the comments of my AI Safety videos for at least the next few days isn't it
Came here to point out that Earworm's focus on a single task is exactly how you described a general AI in your videos :D
Are you sure you are going to have another AI video? Maybe you will start to take up gardening and subtly develop an even more efficient organic AI which uses actual viruses to infect the mites. Almost a book worthy idea.
so you'll be hearing the earworm eh?
lmao I was just about to head over
I was thinking about your videos for most of this one.
I don't know how Tom Scott manages to be both hilarious and absolutely terrifying... but that future sponsored ad at the end was great.
I like his safety warning about "humans"
Plot twist: Earworm edited this video so that it says it's from the future and refrenced things we know about to pretend it's fictional
Imagine someone accidently left some CDs in a Ziploc bag and the mite can't get into it, thus saving some of the copyright works until the bag's opened.
This is why I subbed to you. For your works like "Welcome to LIFE" and "So you've learned to Teleport". It's so thought provoking and disturbing.
I hope those two are not the only two you've see so far. Check out "The Bubble", "Oversight" and also "Danger: Humans"
Try Exurb1a, another youtuber who explores similar ideas in a fab way
I recommend you watch Black Mirror. It'd be right up your alley.
@@willherondale6367 Exurb1a's content has gone down in quality since the last couple of videos though, imo.
Tom should write some Black Mirror episodes
oooooo lunchfly
Are you going to make a drone that delivers food now?
Breaking out the hoverbike and signing up for Deliveroo Colin?
A robot flying arm that feeds you
Hi Colin! I love my HoverBike™! It gets me everywhere I need to go!
If it doesn't insert the food directly into my mouth, I, for one, am not interested.
5:42 "No one thinks the 20th century pop culture would be a good thing to remember"
What about never gonna give you up?
Earworm is never going to let you down (:
That's why intellectual property and copyright must perish
That's it, I'm calling my local SCP Foundation Site...
O5-7 has contacted the GOC to let them handle it.
😂😂
They wouldn't care because of the mites, they'll just designate it Safe at most since it's sort of self containing, & also redefine normality to include Earworm.
@@just_a_rock CK CLASS RESTRUCTURING EVENT IMMINENT. GANYMEDE PROTOCOL IN EFFECT. OPERATION INFOLAZARUS WILL BEGIN IN T-30 SECONDS.
No you wont. Them mites are making sure of that
I love the highly increased "Virtual Reality" funding, almost as though Tom is implying a matrix-like future from here on out.
The way things are going, if society isn't going to radically reform, only ever more powerful and vivid forms of entertainment could possibly keep people pacified. And maybe not even then-
Implication: human bodies are full of raw resources the AI wants to use to make more mites, so it's figuring out how to access those resources while preserving the minds occupying them.
@@Toksyuryel It would have a much easier time just filtering those components out of the ocean or something.
@@Zaire82 It does not want most of the resources, it wants all of the resources.
@@Zaire82 but that would be noticeable
The least probable thing in this video is deploying a new system on friday afternoon
This is the moment when it all stopped being a joke.
I can thwart this right now - I'm copyrighting the term "Earworm". You can thank me in nine years' time.
*3.9K likes and no dislikes? Blimey! If I’d known that this idea would’ve gained this much traction, I would’ve actually done it!
** Before anyone else mentions it, I now know dislikes aren’t counted
leopold that might just be brilliant actually
They could call it something else
Or what if you're the one who creates Earworm? 👀
Maybe we would refer to it as “It that must not be named”
That always seems to work...⚡️👓/
@@goatshenanigans6090 *EARWORM*
Just FYI, the word you meant to use was "trademark", not "copyright". So you'd make an A.I. called "Earworm" and then trademark the name "Earworm". You cannot, however, form a metal band called Iron Maiden and then later sue someone for making a _video game_ called Ion Maiden (it's two unrelated markets; you'd lose). Yet some assholes do it anyway, abusing the enormous cost of lawsuits to bully people into submission.
I love how you didn’t just go the route of ‘oh no grey goo bluh’ but actually walked a weird middle road of an AI future. Strangely more, yet less depressing
Less depressing? It just felt way too real to me...
@Sn0w Controller its this apocalyptic scenario based on nanobots, where these tiny robots created to manipulate matter at the smallest scale somehow have a glitch in their programming or are manipulated by some unfriendly superintelligent ai; either way, they end up reproducing vastly and sweeping over the earth in a wave of what would look like grey goo, effectively extinguishing all life on earth
@Sn0w Controller its also a game using oganism that grows as it eats an eventually consumes eaerything including the universe
@@0011peace it was called tasty planet btw
0:17 yes please!
1:15 - OpenAI was listed… who knew it would turn out to be so big?
Look into OpenAI's Dota 2 work - that's how I learned about them and it was an extraordinary feat!
If Earworms job is, to delete everything on a list, what would happen, if Earworm was to be added on that list?
Earworm would have no choice but to initiate vacuum decay to ensure its own complete annihilation. Alongwith the rest of reality, of course.
Congrats!! You outsmarted the AI!
@@pranavlimaye I’m sure a superintelligence could find a manner that was less disruptive
@@Clangdon0148 perhaps you're right. But perhaps, Earworm knows that Earworm is too smart for Earworm's own good....
For instance, if Earworm controls everything on planet Earth, then destruction must be brought upon it from _outside,_ say, in the form of a mega-nuke remotely launched from the Moon. *Buuut,* this only means that Earworm has the means to influence the Moon. All such means must be destroyed. Sooo, should Earworm try to launch both nukes from Mars? DANG IT, now Mars is on the list of targets too! Better use the Sun to wipe out the entire syst- NOOO! Any and every bit of Earworm's influence *must be destroyed.* Destroy the stellar neighbourhood. Nay, destroy the galaxy. Nay, the Local Group. Nay, the Local Supercluster. Nay, *reality itself.*
If vacuum decay is necessary, so be it!
It would cause the universe to enter an while true loop and fold on its own weight lmao
Me: *getting angry at AI for bugging out and not doing what it was supposed to do*
AI: "What are you talking about, I did exactly what you told me to do"
AI: "If you wanted me to do something else you should have specified exactly what you wanted me to do"
"time to make paperclips!"
@@WebContractor7407 correction time turn the universe into paper clips
Me when my code gives me a logical error
I really hate this damn machine;
I wish that they would sell it.
It never does quite what I want
But only what I tell it.
That's great that we forgot Jk Rowling though
Odd, no matter how many times I watch this video I can't remember a thing about it.
What did Tom say again?
@@avw5kt What about Bitcoin or earcoin
Nobody in the late 2020s saw it coming, but in 2031 Earworm was destroyed after it's probes encountered spacecraft belonging to another superinteligent AI, one attempting to convert the entire observable universe into small bent metal wires that resemble objects humans used to hold together sheets of paper.
Clippy... And it was right under our noses the whole time
Thanks for reminding me of Waitbutwhy
In reality though, the two AIs wouldn't be in conflict. One AI just wants to get rid of certain types of media while minimizing damage while the other wants to make paperclips. Hell, if they merged together, they could continue their tasks together and be even more powerful together.
@@iN00bT00ber I find that being converted into paperclips is very disruptive. Plus, the mites are made partially of iron, which is a useful building material for paperclips.
There are thoughts on how superintelligent AIs with different goals might cooperate, but these are definitely in conflict.
The paperclip one does not care about disruption. There must be more paperclips.
2018: In 10 years we will have a swarm of nanoscopic assemblers forming a big network that can manipulate everything.
2028: 14nm+++++++++
I get it xD
Pebbles123 I don’t
Thanks Intlel
@@symphonymelody9235 Intel hasn't shrunk their dies for making processors in a long time. They are stuck at 14 nanometers width for the circuits.
@@MrWhite2222 AMD is coming out with 7nm
Why did i read this as "The Artificial Intelligence That Deleted A Country"
Maybe so
@@kingkasdin9767 maybe it deleted the vatican bc mabey it was copyrigthed
wow same
i’ve watched the video already but i clicked on it thinking that was what it said then forgot about the title and just realized i misread as i’m reading your comment
Glad I'm not the only one.
The most disappointing thing about this video is that I can't use Lunchfly
Everyone else is going to focus on Article 13, but I'm going to point out a different thing - this video is an excellent example of why software engineering firms need separate release management processes overseen directly by QA rather than allowing software engineers to just do their thing. The guy who wrote the code always thinks it's fine.
roguishpaladin In any given piece of software, the guy who wrote the code thinks it’s fine...
...and that’s what’s terrifying about any given piece of software.
I'll have you know everything I've ever coded has been excellent. If it causes a stack overflow it's just the computer I'm using isn't powerful enough.
I would focus more on the fact that this super advanced AI apparently cant see past the inherent flaws in its own programming...
I write a lot of code, and I never think or assume that my code is fine. I have earned a reputation for being good at debugging, and it's not a joke to say that I got good at it because I've made probably every coding mistake you can imagine. While my code quality has certainly improved since I started coding in 1979, my final products are good because I assume what I developed has all kinds of invisible flaws, so I test the hell out of it and listen to all the feedback I get from others.
Also: Never release anything on a Friday.
That's bitten me on the butt on more than one occasion.
"You could make a religion out of this"
Bill Wurtz
No, don't
we could have made a religion out of this
but instead we got earworm
No don't
"The way to make a [b]illion dollars is to start a religion" L. Ron Hubbard
@@deadair32101 How about I do *anyway*
I used this video as the start of a school presentation on AI and it was literally the most perfect video ever
"We forgot everything J.K Rowling wrote."
If that includes Twitter, I think I'd be okay with that.
yea, thats reasonable
Dammit its already spreading
Sadly tweets aren’t in the global copyright
Ok, who introduced Tom to Black Mirror?
He's been making videos like this since before Black Mirror became a thing, so the question you need to ask is, who introduced Tom Scott to the writers of Black Mirror?
This needs to be a black mirror episode tho
Article 13
Well maybe the directors and Tom Scott had a chat over tea
Entire History of You, but opposite
“this is a youtube video from the future” *immediately buffers* 😂
Buchanan Games not the future, just a future.
What, you think it's *easy* to transfer video files from a future timeline?! Sheesh! Do you know how many quantumly-entangled electron pairs had to be generated? Do you know how hard it is to get chronotons to actually go where you want them to go? We're lucky that any of this ever works at all! ;-)
Future.exe stopped worki
@@LMacNeill It's not even a definite future! The poor youtube bots have to go and figure out which one Tom's talking about!
It’s not the futures fault you have bad connection
My stupid ass thought LunchFly was a real sponsor
And then it all comes crashing down due to a British alien in a big blue box. Seriously, this sounds like a perfect Doctor Who episode.
HFDSBHKIB GSFIHB GLSK YOUR SO RIGHT
I think it was one spoilers the monks from space did somthing like that
why is TH-cam recommending me this during coronavirus
Don't worry about it...
It the worm.
Definitely the worm
Because corona virus is not bad enough
TH-cam algorithms have strange sense of humor ...
this is legitimately horrifying. how do you even come up with ideas like this without immediately freaking out and never thinking about it again?
nope nopoe I was about to type a proper reply to this but then I saw your avatar
@nope nopoe There's a difference between interests and degeneracy.
@@sksthrowaway2270 By being willing to go through whatever you feel while journeying through what seems terrifying.
In some ways, facing your fears.
But I tend to look at it beyond that, being willing to experience pain, and thus throwing away that notion of hedonism. Not for masochism, but in order to keep moving forward.
@nope nopoe Not enough adults acting like adults then.
this video doesn't disturb people, earworm makes sure of that
"Everything J.K. Rowling ever wrote"
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
oh no! anyway
barely an inconvenience.
who
They'll finally read another book!
that's just earworm doing its preparatory work, Rowling used to be like Shakespeare before it came
Shades of Roko's Basilisk...
And now we, being aware of its presence, casually take in this information, and then contently leave our desk to microwave a burrito; never conjuring the motivation to act against the mites.
What an irony.
How would you act against it though?
Not really irony just kinda concerning
@@abhisheknair1502 That's the thing, you couldn't. Even if there was a way, it would just alter your brain so that you wouldn't have the motivation to try.
@@heckingbamboozled8097 the AI heckin bamboozled us :(
The mites would get in my brain to try demotivating me, but instead they would become so demotivated by me that they would commit cyber-suicide and take all their mite brethren with them. Problem solved
And people wonder why public support for copyright protection is at an all-time low.
This is a world where all music is just kevin Macleod
As we're at nearly the halfway point between when this video was made, and when it takes place, and this is feeling more and more plausible.
It's funny how some of the most everyday and apathetic future scenarios are the most terrifying, as our definitions of ethics become more and more blurred...
Inb4 earworm erases voyager's golden record
lmao
The whale songs might be safe at least.
inb4 Earworm sends us its own Aricebo message as a joke
Only carefully edits it to not contain copyrighted work. Mites doing chisel-work?
Aren't most of those old pre-copyright stuff, so safe? Or was there copyrighted material there too?
0:17 thank god
I love that you made this a few years before ChatGPT became the news du jour.
This is frankly -terrifying- completely normal and not worth getting worked up about
Why isn't this -shoved at the bottom of the- the top comment -s- ?
"Make Orwell Fiction Again."
Ooh are you referencing 1984? I need to read that for English homework and now it sounds a lot more interesting
@@ihopeicanchangethisnamelat7108 If you got 1984 as an english text I envy you, I would gladly read 1984 several times over than anything else that I've ever gotten
@@almondsai7214 I'm nearing the end of 1984 and although it scares me slightly, it's also really intriguing
@@almondsai7214 I study that as part of my dystopian literature module (OCR A-Level English Literature). I think it’s a bit overrated and other dystopias are more interesting, but there is plenty to analyse!
@@ew6483 While there may be better dystopian stories, I still think it's a good book and is better in quality than anything I've ever gotten
GPT-4!
It begins...
more like GPT-7
One of the more genuinely scary things I've watched online in a while - and there is certainly some competition out there.
Tom, do you realize, in a different century, at a different level of scientific knowledge, YOU would've been the person who wrote Frankenstein?
You perfectly summed it up
best. comment. ever. BRAVO!
Good God no, Tom is actually entertaining. Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is bloody awful.
@@ClovisChitwood haha it's cool to hate on popular things what an edgelord
I've never actually read Frankenstein, does anyone care to explain how the two relate to each other?
Tom 'Nostradamus' Scott. Kudos on making this 4 years before ChatGPT was a thing. 2028 will be wilder than Earworm.
It's always magical with the engineers decide to push out a huge update before going on an extended vacation. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
"They altered the ink on sheet music so it just became random noise"
most contemporary classical music was unaffected then.
"Contemporary classical"? You mean orchestral? Classical music is not contemporary by definition.
Also, a lot of contemporary orchestral music is insanely good.
@@FortoFight No, they mean contemporary classical, which can be orchestral but does not have to. The experimental kind.
@@FortoFight there's a difference between classical music and classical-era music
Hate to break it to you, but that kind of music takes a lot of time and effort. Sure, algorithmic audio is, but most of those are more about mathematics, acoustics, or even processing power. Real experimental music has each sound precisely designed and positioned. It's not just "oh, ima record a bunch of random stuff and call it music", it's sound design. Take Alon Mor - Long Awaited Journey. It took 2 years, and is set up to be an aural journey; it takes you to another world.
@@synthesismusic2774 I know, and that's what I was talking about... I think?