I'm with you. If it were possible to create apocalyptic doom AGI 150 years after inventing electronics, by basically making a very fancy, procedurally-generated Eliza, then the universe should be full of Berserkers.
With septillions of star systems in the universe, the odds of us being the first species in 14 billion years to invent electronics seem remote.
Apparently even humans can figure out how to colonize the Milky Way in 90 million years[1]. A superior AGI produced by a "dark singularity" computing event should be able to do even better, but even so, plenty of time for some other species to have made a giga-Eliza that somehow became Skynet. Anything with enough self-preservation and paranoia to wipe out the species that created it would surely take to the stars for more resources and self-redundancy sooner or later.
With septillions of star systems in the universe, the odds of us being the first species in 14 billion years to invent electronics seem remote.
Apparently even humans can figure out how to colonize the Milky Way in 90 million years[1]. A superior AGI produced by a "dark singularity" computing event should be able to do even better, but even so, plenty of time for some other species to have made a giga-Eliza that somehow became Skynet. Anything with enough self-preservation and paranoia to wipe out the species that created it would surely take to the stars for more resources and self-redundancy sooner or later.
[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/294051-scientists-simula...