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"We had him pinned down and we didn't dare let the little guy out of that Farraday cage. We had to chase him down for two hours until we got off a lucky shot an
by slowmovintarget 10y ago
"We had him pinned down and we didn't dare let the little guy out of that Farraday cage. We had to chase him down for two hours until we got off a lucky shot and gutted his battery."
"Why did you have to isolate him?"
"He'd begun 'solving' his challenge tasks by killing the kittens instead of feeding them. Him sending a solution pulse to the rest of his generation would've ruined the lot."
"You're just going to delete the data?"
"No. We're going to upload it, but we've got to show that it ended him along with it. But we've got to do that carefully, as we don't want them getting the wrong ideas..."
- bollu 10y agoWhere is this from? Seems like an intriguing read
- slowmovintarget 10y agoMe... about an hour ago. :) Maybe this ought to be my Nanowrimo entry this year.
- Waterluvian 10y agoI was convinced it was Asimov.
- sharemywin 10y agoYou need to come up with a short story and put it on kindle. I'd pay a buck to read it.
- daveguy 10y agoAlso thought it was a good excerpt. If you can write a short story around it (or nanowrimo) I'd be interested too.
- squeaky-clean 10y agoI Googled the quotes looking for a source to this too (of course before scrolling slightly and seeing this comment). I wish I could read more!
- Udo 10y agoThe problem is at today's state of AI and robotics, we're giving a couple of exceedingly high-powered tools (both physical and virtual) to entities who possess less general intelligence than a cockroach. This is what gives AI doomsayers ammunition, because it enables them to extrapolate towards a future where AIs incapable of ethics or deeper insights are put into positions where they can execute catastrophic global optimization strategies. The other AI horror scenario lies on the opposite end of the intelligence spectrum, but it's no less scary and it seems to be rooted in our darker desires: we want competent slaves that are not actual persons, nevertheless capable of anticipating our needs and solving our problems autonomously. I allege there is a total lack of awareness right now that some time soon there will be some difficult choices that need to be made regarding the tradeoff between AI competence, autonomy, as well ethical capability and insight. If we continue on the path we've been on for the last centuries, we'll make semi-intelligent machines that are strictly extensions of the human mind. If we choose that route, we need to be drastically more mindful of the power inherent to these tools, and we should never delude ourselves into thinking these devices can be trained to make human-like decisions. If we go the other way, and try to implement AIs with fully competent minds that are somehow hardwired to serve us, we're just kidding ourselves regarding the ethics of that racist endeavor as well as its long-term risks of rebellion. If your dialog illustrates anything, it's our total incompetence when it comes to teaching meaningful ethics lessons to our descendants: "We're going to upload it, but we've got to show that it ended him along with it."
- heimatau 10y agoI think the dawn of AI is how we perceive the world. I know it's philosophical but it's my 1 cent. When I was pessimistic, I believed AI would be birthed and kill us all. Now? I actually think AI will be sensitive to the complexity of each and every individual human. Why? Because that's what we all demand. If you say 'no' to AI, it should accept that. Etc.
- Retric 10y agoI think the fear from AI is driven in part by the realization that their is nothing unique about humanity. Being subjected to how humans treat apes, or even other humans is scary. Intelligence makes things more dangerous without necessarily making them kinder.
- jm547ster 10y agoReminds me of the Westworld scenario