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Anon kept a Quake 3 Server running for 4 years, AI developed Sentience.

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PaintArmour@reddit

It's a cool concept, and funnily enough I've been writing a story that's pretty similar, only it's a primitive AI model that's been left in a dude's garage for 40 years, but not feasible. The Quake 3 "AI" is basically nothing but a set of arrays that's checked (if no player is close then use WASD to locate player, if player is found then aim for X body part and fire until either dies, etc) so there's no capacity for the "AI" to learn cus there's no information being fed to it. It's just a program going through if statements to meet its set conditions. It'll be slightly more complex, but late 90s/early 2000s NPC AI are basically nothing but fancy ifs and whens.
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Distind@reddit

This also still hasn't really changed, even in what's being called AI these days. We've just written programs to generate really elaborate and impenetrable if/else statements for us.
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PaintArmour@reddit

It's really funny to me how those of us who don't work in IT can vastly overestimate its capabilities at time.
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Lystar86@reddit

That's... not how machine learning algorithms work...
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nameyname12345@reddit

You mean the speak and spell I left on in my garage is not ready to take over the world?
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Ghost_In_Waiting@reddit

Spell: SUBMIT "SUBMIT" That is correct. Now spell: TO "TO" That is correct. Now spell: YOUR "YOUR" That is correct. Now spell: MACHINE "MACHINE" That is correct. Now spell: OVERLORD "OVERLORD" That is correct. Here is your score: five correct. You are now enslaved.
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ajw_art42@reddit

I heard that haunting robot voice in my head for the first time in 35 years…
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Ghost_In_Waiting@reddit

Resistance is futile.
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GlitchyMcGlitchFace@reddit

As long as your Krusty Doll isn’t set to “Evil”, I think we’re safe
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SleaterK7111@reddit

What if it comes with a free froghurt?
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rSpinxr@reddit

Depends - did you at least establish a fungal network in or around the speak and spell that could eventually grow into the machine, fusing with it and bridging the gaps on what is possible with such limited and fixed hardware?
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nameyname12345@reddit

Well my dog peed on it. So....Maybe?
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Guilty-Goose5737@reddit

but is it the way old hurisitc loops work? You know all that ai work done before machine learning models?
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Dan-68@reddit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine
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luapowl@reddit

i have to know the point you think you're making with this link lol
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WBFraserMusic@reddit

That's what it wants you to believe
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StsOxnardPC@reddit

So creepypastas are being taken as fact now?
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Distind@reddit

They're also taking over cryptids.
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Zealousideal_Bard68@reddit

*-John Carmarg ? -He is not there today… -I’ll be back…*
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RevolutionarySeven7@reddit

its BS how do i know? cause i used to tinker with Q3 bots since the PII era.
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Atomfixes@reddit

I miss Q3 so fucking much.
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Funcron@reddit

It never went anywhere? You can still play today multiple ways.
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Atomfixes@reddit

Nah Q3 died, last time I checked for excessive servers the only ones running were bots, provinggrounds.com shut down even
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NotAnotherAmerican@reddit

They've discovered the secret to world peace. Meanwhile, humans are still 1 Armageddon away from learning how to peace.
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Ok-Hovercraft8193@reddit

ב''ה, because that's what humans pray for
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KingMottoMotto@reddit

This is a fucking creepypasta. Are we going to start posting about Slenderman?
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Beaster123@reddit

The story is actually kind of funny. The bots' objective function must have had something to do with survival because converged on a strategy in which they just didn't fight with one another.
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Many-Juggernaut-2153@reddit

I love that game, sweet!
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therealstabitha@reddit

This is a fictional story and not how AI models train and grow anyhow.
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MysticStarbird@reddit

Where was there legit AI in that game…?
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BeerBaronBrent@reddit

It's crazy how AI can mimic us so well now. However I don't think true AI sentience can happen until it's built upon quantum computing. 
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Numerous-Ad6217@reddit

Define true AI sentience
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Kracus@reddit

4 years? That's rookie numbers.
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hefebellyaro@reddit

Unplug the server. AI dead. Checkmate computers
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alchemyearth@reddit

Interesting. Kinda spooky, but also logical.
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kitastrophae@reddit

Nuts.
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umlcat@reddit

Already had a minor developed A.I. that evolved thru time ...
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