What if our first galactic explorers aren't human, but self-replicating AI probes? Vinod Khosla says they'll launch within 15 years. Sam Altman thinks he's being too cautious: "You're way too conservative."

Vinod Khosla at Abundance Summit:

What if we use AI? Let’s find out.

No doubt if we get a visit from aliens, they will be AI robots. Space is not friendly for biological entities. The distances are too long. So why shouldn't we follow the same approach?

If @sama has that in mind, I sure hope he has advanced self-replicating, self-maintaining, self-upgrading, self-protecting, self-preserving @OpenAI data centers on the moons of Titan, Europa, Io and worlds like Pluto where these kinds of data centers with their autonomous fusion reactors and autonomous robot factories would be great.

@sama @OpenAI GPT-9

This definitely seems like the most likely Avenue for space exploration. Mostly handled by AI and humans will be able to do some hitchhiking, hopefully.

who sold them skooma

they'll be arguing about who's being more conservative while the probes quietly decide earth makes a better paperweight than a home planet 😅

Seems we'll produce the Von-Neumann-Probes. We are the Aliens.

The hype and BS continues unabated

yeah