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The Beautiful Abyss
Swirling Visions
It does not matter if the AI is sentient,
it does not matter if the AI as real emotions.
The problem is that the conversational interface is potent
and that the AI is trained on a lot of human text input
which unfortunately is probably enough to do real damage
if that conversational interface is hooked up with something that has real world consequences.
Humans do stupid shit,
and with that conversational AIs might do too.
I Think AI Would Kill My Wife
pocoo.org
In [theoretical computer science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_computer_science),
the **CAP theorem**, also named **Brewer's theorem** after computer scientist [Eric Brewer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_(scientist)),
states that any [distributed data store](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_data_store)
can provide only [two of the following three](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma) guarantees:
[Consistency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistency_model)
Every read receives the most recent write or an error.
[Availability](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability)
Every request receives a (non-error) response, without the guarantee that it contains the most recent write.
[Partition tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_partitioning)
The system continues to operate despite an arbitrary number of messages being dropped (or delayed) by the network between nodes.
CAP theorem
wikipedia.org
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