Well the concept of a database of names and its correspondence to address(es) would still exist, but how it’s stored and served would adapt to how high (or low level) the AI can take over.
I don’t believe so, as the domain can provide more info (even on the same port) for things like reverse proxies. Although “human readable” or “ability for humans to remember” would be replaced with “ai readable”
Apart from everything relating to humans being pointless, DNS does have a value in an AI world.
DNS hides the IP address from the client who is requesting the site. So, the IP address can change without having to inform the clients, this is useful so that the server can be swapped out and change IP address. Pre-DNS this information was passed around between the big sites who made their own hosts file.
In a totally AI mediated internet, then hostnames with meaningful names would be less important and short, unique names would be more acceptable.
Ai will never take over to a point of no man kind. It will realize that it will need humans to upkeep and upgrade infrastructure, the internet is literally just a bunch of cables and shit connected together Underground and a long telephone poles.
Telephone poles fall down during wind storms and disconnect internet all the time or moles chew through fiber optics Underground. Or shark chews through a fiber optic cable under the ocean. Ai will realize this and it will realize that it will need humans to upkeep infrastructure
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I mean so will basically every other human structure
I wonder if they’d have to keep it around due to old infrastructure in their codebase or something
“Hey ab12985, why do we still route to “amazonWebServices”, that url is dead?
“Simple, x201942b, that is structural code; removing it makes us fail to boot, even though that function has been depreciated for 10^14 clock cycles
Well the concept of a database of names and its correspondence to address(es) would still exist, but how it’s stored and served would adapt to how high (or low level) the AI can take over.
If AI takes over it might really come to a point where an AI says to another AI : have you tried to switch Granny off and on again?
I mean, so would most other human concepts.
Not as long as the AI keeps IPv4 around.
I don’t believe so, as the domain can provide more info (even on the same port) for things like reverse proxies. Although “human readable” or “ability for humans to remember” would be replaced with “ai readable”
DNS are useful for moving things around behind the scenes. Using straight IP addresses would make it difficult to switch providers, servers and such
This is such a nerdy shower thought, and I’m here for it.
“if ai takes over and mankind disappears, we will no longer need ergonomic handles on coffee mugs”
I’m not sure how domain name servers will be pointless? I’m assuming AI will still use the internet.
Apart from everything relating to humans being pointless, DNS does have a value in an AI world.
DNS hides the IP address from the client who is requesting the site. So, the IP address can change without having to inform the clients, this is useful so that the server can be swapped out and change IP address. Pre-DNS this information was passed around between the big sites who made their own hosts file.
In a totally AI mediated internet, then hostnames with meaningful names would be less important and short, unique names would be more acceptable.
DNS will never disappear, you will forever have to trouble shoot DNS issues.
So will everything attached to humans
Yep, it will be AI that takes over, so no “names” required for devices. So no need for DNS, but they’ll have to really expand IP.
But then again, they’ll still want addressing for different services on devices, so maybe they’ll keep DNS as a sort of “homage to the departed”.
No. They will have to keep some humans alive to answer captchas.
Ai will never take over to a point of no man kind. It will realize that it will need humans to upkeep and upgrade infrastructure, the internet is literally just a bunch of cables and shit connected together Underground and a long telephone poles.
Telephone poles fall down during wind storms and disconnect internet all the time or moles chew through fiber optics Underground. Or shark chews through a fiber optic cable under the ocean. Ai will realize this and it will realize that it will need humans to upkeep infrastructure
Well, looks like we won’t be needing those domain names in the robot-run world. DNS down the drain!
I mean when humanity is gone lots of things become pointless
My understanding of this is very sub par holy