Sentences with phrase «grey goo»

Heck, once the dream of achieving artificial general intelligence arrives, some pessimists seem to think the only debate is whether we're obliterated by Terminator - style robots or turned into grey goo by nanobots.

The purposefully planned sameness is often extolled as a «feature not a bug,» and many cryptocurrency enthusiasts like to daydream for when regulators and financial institutions of our own world disappear, eaten up by grey goo nanites funded by bitcoins.

Then again, consider what K. Eric Drexler of the Foresight Institute calls the «grey goo problem» in his book Engines of Creation, a cult favorite among the nanotech set.

Even futurist K Eric Drexler, who came up with the idea in the first place (in his 1986 book Engines of Creation) has since recanted, and Greenpeace UK's chief scientist describes grey goo as a «distraction from the real issues».

Oh, and trust he'll only recommend something that's not grey goo.

In a neighbor's latrine across the street, the sordid grey goo almost reaches the pit's surface, a clear menace comes the next storm.

Perhaps he's worried that nanotechnology will take on a life of its own and transform the planet into grey goo?

For the uninitiated, grey goo is made up of millions of self - replicating nanomachines that breed rapidly and lay waste to everything in their path, like a swarm of artificial, flesh - eating locusts.

BRITAIN collectively gasped this week at the potential horrors of the «grey goo» about to engulf the country — and even the planet.

Researchers and science fiction authors have worried about self - replicating nanomachines going rogue and consuming the entire planet, covering it in «grey goo ``.

I have read that self - replicating nano - robots of the future could run wild, turning all life on Earth into a dead «grey goo».

It is obtained when the meat processing plant has taken in a lot meat and food items (which include animals that could not be used to produce anything better such as dead and diseased ones), cooked them under high pressure and high temperature over and over again and finally created a grey goo which is of no use to anyone.

The «proof of work» requirement that requires a ridiculous amount of energy usage could be replaced with a different verification method, making the new altcoin more efficient and saving all the world's energy from being sucked up to mine Bitcoin the way nanobots may one day suck up all the world's matter in a grey goo nightmare scenario.