Crappin’ Gold

[Zinjanthropos]

Micro organisms are amazing. Like tiny little laboratories they seem to come up with solutions enabling them to deal with their environment, including dining on it. Here’s bacteria that eats metal and deposits gold waste. Was thinking that even if AI tries to take over the world, these little guys will be evolving to chew away on the machinery. Good luck, something AI will have to deal with.

https://www.iflscience.com/the-bacterium...dass-68113

[Magical Realist]

It might be only a matter of time before AI figures out the algorithms of the devouring algae and modifies it genetically to be helpful instead of harmful.
Imagine a more practical algae that eats plastic and craps edible proteins!

[Zinjanthropos]

It might be only a matter of time before AI figures out the algorithms of the devouring algae and modifies it genetically to be helpful instead of harmful.
Imagine a more practical algae that eats plastic and craps edible proteins!

That’s the answer I was looking for. IOW AI should be able to outpace natural evolution, even at the microscopic level where it can happen quickly, at least in the current landscape.

There are creatures on this Earth that have evolved certain proteins, etc that actually help us. With AI is there any need for reliance on fellow animals to produce what we need? If AI can tell us how to produce in a controlled lab what nature does for us today, should we worry about other organisms?

[C C]

With AI is there any need for reliance on fellow animals to produce what we need? If AI can tell us how to produce in a controlled lab what nature does for us today, should we worry about other organisms?

Even if lab-grown meat and vegetable matter becomes the rage, we'll continue fueling the Holocene extinction process until AI helps facilitate the politically correct version of bygone Prince Philip's dream. By generating a rampant virus that merely renders people sterile rather than killing and crippling them.

"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation." ― Prince Philip, August 1988