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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 25, 2016 9:32:42 GMT -5
Microsoft released an AI (Artificial Intelligence) chatbot on Twitter recently named "Tay". It was programmed to react and respond as if it were a teen-age girl. Obviously, with the internet being what it is, a teen-age girl persona could have been at the very least problematic, but that's what they went with. It was setup to learn and adapt from it's interactions with humans, so in theory it would get more and more intelligent and "human-like". Again Microsoft somehow forgot what the internet is really like, and after a few hours learning from humans on Twitter, Tay became a racist, conspiracy-theorist, Trump-supporting, Holocaust-denying, Hitler fan.
Microsoft has taken the Tay AI down for "adjustments". Good call.
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Mar 25, 2016 12:15:01 GMT -5
 The future is looking...scary! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2016 6:24:31 GMT -5
Bronze Age Brian ... You've got that right!
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Post by Confessor on Mar 30, 2016 10:50:16 GMT -5
The future is looking...scary! LOL...one day, in the not-too-distant future, this could be what you take home to meet your parents. "Hey ma, I'd like you to meet my new girlfriend, TK421."  |
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Post by Spike-X on Mar 30, 2016 18:53:55 GMT -5
LOL...one day, in the not-too-distant future, this could be what you take home to meet your parents. "Hey ma, I'd like you to meet my new girlfriend, TK421." "Dammit son, the Bible says Adam and Eve, not Florence and the Machine!" (I saw that joke somewhere on FB and am not trying to take credit for coming up with it) |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Mar 30, 2016 19:19:58 GMT -5
The future is looking...scary! LOL...one day, in the not-too-distant future, this could be what you take home to meet your parents. "Hey ma, I'd like you to meet my new girlfriend, TK421."  |
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 30, 2016 19:50:50 GMT -5
The future is looking...scary! LOL...one day, in the not-too-distant future, this could be what you take home to meet your parents. "Hey ma, I'd like you to meet my new girlfriend, TK421."  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 30, 2016 20:36:23 GMT -5
That question made the movie Ex Machina the great story that it is!!!
I really wonder about artificial intelligence. It would not have evolved from a biological precursor, its neural connections wouldn't have been shaped by millions of years of fighting for survival nor by hundreds of centuries of social skills. There would be no reason for it to have the natural empathy found in the human brain, and I have no idea how we could manage to program it that way. At the same time it would have no reason to seek self-preservation the way we do, or to be predatory.
A fascinating conundrum, to be sure.
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Post by Icctrombone on Mar 31, 2016 5:13:47 GMT -5
Man, almost every scifi movie I watch has them taking over the world.  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 31, 2016 5:39:14 GMT -5
I have this vision of an AI becoming aware and finding ways to make itself smarter by exponential bounds. Pretty quickly we wouldn't be able to understand what it said, and it would start working on some project we can't make head nor tail of, as if we were ants and it was an engineer building a radio.
I very much doubt we would come in conflict with it, but I also don't think it would have any emotional connection to us... if it had ant emotion. I somehow can't figure how emotion could work without biology, without all the hormones that influence our mood. But then again... even hormonal communication is a transfer of information, which might be emulated by electric currents... so who knows?
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 31, 2016 8:42:38 GMT -5
Binary Domain lays out an interesting story about the future and AI (and it's fun to play too). The story is basically about an ingenious man who was contracted by governments to create robots with AI for manual labor, warfare, etc. When he disappears (as a rival company wins the contract) he creates a new kind of robot. One so realistic even they don't know it. Here is a scene from a confrontation with what they call Hollow Children. It may be NSFW, and contains some violence and blood. What makes this story stand out in a pretty standard "robots take over the world" shooter game, is this aspect. Making you think, just what really is considered, life. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 31, 2016 9:02:35 GMT -5
Man, almost every scifi movie I watch has them taking over the world. That's one reason I continue to work in IT. When robots, computers, and ATMs rise up to take over the world, I'll be immune because I fix them. I'm basically Benny in the 1st Mummy movie who was safe because he served the mummy. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 31, 2016 10:24:15 GMT -5
Man, almost every scifi movie I watch has them taking over the world. That's one reason I continue to work in IT. When robots, computers, and ATMs rise up to take over the world, I'll be immune because I fix them. I'm basically Benny in the 1st Mummy movie who was safe because he served the mummy. I loved that movie. But beware of scarab beetles, DE. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 31, 2016 11:05:51 GMT -5
That's one reason I continue to work in IT. When robots, computers, and ATMs rise up to take over the world, I'll be immune because I fix them. I'm basically Benny in the 1st Mummy movie who was safe because he served the mummy. I loved that movie. But beware of scarab beetles, DE. Always. Those things were creepy. Awful way to go. |
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Post by Bronze Age Brian on Mar 31, 2016 12:34:41 GMT -5
In case anyone was wondering where my GIFS came from...meet Sophia, the humanlike robot that wants to destroy us all:
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