Wake me when the jews are gone.
Posted by: anton1792
Rampancy is a symptom, not the cause.
What actually happens is that as a smart AI accumulates knowledge it forms more interconnections between its memory circuits, which increases it intellegence essentially. However as this continues, the density of interconnections becomes too great and fatal feedback loops and short circuiting begin to occur in the AI's memory matrix.
Two things can happen as a result from here. The AI can do nothing about it, in which case the short circuits will result in a total failure of the AI. (It dies) The other option is for the AI to start destroying some of these interconnections to free up space, and thus stop this failure from happening (Or slow it down). Destroying parts of the memory matrix results in all sorts of weird changes in the AI. Rampancy is one of them. It is merely a manifestation of the AI's attempts to prolong its own existence by destroying parts of itself. Though Halsey said that ultimately the AI, as a result of this, becomes increasingly more reckless, making poorer and poorer choices in the way it severs these interconnections meaning that it is usually only a matter of time before the AI kills itself.
Rampancy is unavoidable and will always end up with the destruction of the AI. Locking them away somewhere will not work.or they could somehow achieve metastability where they essentialy become human (not an human but a real life form)