If you've ever seen a Terminator movie, you know that the cause of the apocalypse is Austrian and totes a shotgun. Okay, maybe not the Governator himself, but as a cyborg with fully functioning artificial intelligence, he and his like lead mankind into destruction.
We've just taken a step towards that reality.
Enter: Minecraft- the addictive, open world phenomenon built by a single dude in Europe. Well, his concoction just became self-learned. A youtube user by the name of TheInternetFTW has taken Minecraft to new heights, far beyond the capabilities that anyone would have thunk in a videogame. You might as well name this guy Skynet.
Though in its primitive stages at the moment, TheInternetFTW is in the process of building a supercomputer, inside a computer game. And the sad thing- it works. Finished with the CPU, he is now on to the memory, all straight from the textbook The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles.
I'm scared to see what awaits us. Wait, I take that back. I'm actually curious as to what a real life gun-wielding, one-liner inducing, body-building cyborg will be like.
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