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That’s a really interesting premise. Fungi infects AI-powered robot, giving it sentience and freedom from human control. There’s something like this in Scavengers Reign.

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Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
How would the fungi even interface with the robot? Exposed parts of the circuitry?

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- Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  God a writing prompt I’m no writer but I’m drunk noooo.
  
  I’m getting all sorts of ideas but again as I am no writer, I don’t know how well I’m gonna get them down.
  
  But has anyone seen the Dr Who episode “Flatline”? >!2D beings invading a 3d space, basically.!< youtu.be/ll_UhrQMC-I
  
  I think a mushroom would somehow evolve or “learn” to use electronics. Like accidentally being near a switch in the lab the mushroom grows in, and it’s near the switch for lights for plants in the lab. And the mushroom feeds on the plants. The lab is abandoned or it’s a fault the fungi gets near the switch or some such hijinks, but through that it learns benefits for electrical manipulation, even though it doesn’t actually know what it’s doing. It just knows it happened to manipulate electrics in some way, and the way it did it, it got more food.
  
  This leads it to being “curious” about other electronics it faces (let’s say this is a mushroom in an abandoned robotics lab or something) and eventually it learns to manipulate a robot and through that, it learns to sense our world, of which it has no idea, except for the feedback it gets from the robots sensors, which it doesn’t fundamentally understand.
  
  So it is the sentience, but mushroom sentiences are fucking weird.
  
  I’d watch the shit out of what I imagine it to be. But since I have a hard time actually translating that into a movie myself to show you, you’re just gonna have to trust me. In like 5 years I’d be able to just show you through having an EEG BCI read my thoughts while writing this and having an AI translate it to a movie. But that’s only if we weren’t busy with destroying the world and no chance tech like that isn’t gonna be so proprietary that I wouldn’t have already been sanctioned with some shocks for violating intellectual property rights or something.
  
  Thanks for the prompt, enjoy the incoherent comment.
  
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ben_dover@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
it could be simpler - people building fungi based robots like the folks in the article, then losing control over them and they start replicating

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rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
There’s a killer in Dead by Daylight that is an AI powered robot that has enhanced itself with organics. Granted, those organics weren’t from a fungus but rather from humans that happened to be around

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