brimstoneSalad wrote:Not sure what you're on about.
You know, like when you asserted that all the experts in the relevant fields agree that cats love their owners? That is obviously not true, see
here.
So, how can I trust you most of the people who have studied informatics agree it's possible for fish to feel pain, and other similar things you asserted?
brimstoneSalad wrote:Which do you think most synthetic intelligence is closer to?
If I understand it correctly, artificial intelligence is something in-between. It's much like some program in a scripting language, one in which it's relatively easy for a program to modify its own code (like LISP, or even JavaScript). Can a JavaScript program take over your computer? It's not supposed to be able to, but the modern (and even the much-less-modern ones) JavaScript environments are so complicated that there is almost certainly some security flaw in them that makes it possible.
That said, there are also documented instances of, for example, a certain UNICODE string
crashing iOS, and also a few documented instances of a corrupt PNG file
crashing a browser. Buffer overflow, if used maliciously, can sometimes be used to take a control over a computer (not just crashing an app) from a non-executable file, if a program that's used to open it isn't made secure. Such instances are rare, but they do happen (see, for instance,
SQL Slammer).