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It would be an interesting experiment to see what happens if you put two really advanced sex androids in a room together.

Probably the same thing as getting two human sex workers in a room together: either sex (their job), call attention the demonization of the sex industry or the exploitation of machinery in said industry, or simple small talk.

Although, consensual sex between two sex robots would allow them to explore their own boundaries and preferences, instead of measuring those of others.

What if you take an AI from a fighting game, program a neural network and machine learning into it, then put it into a robot and let it roam the world?

Initially, it’d probably start fighting people as most in-game AI will generally attack without being aggro’d. Over time though it may come to find that people aren’t as receptive to real world violence as player characters in video games…

or alternatively, it will provoke the wrong person and be destroyed. However, to a current fighting CPUs, death and defeat are already part of it’s nature.

In actuality, it is more probable humanity would exploit such AI in place of modernized bloodsports (football, hockey, mma, etc.) to further distance themselves from our own violent tendencies, assuming it was cheap enough and profitable enough.

The best possible solution: a person encountering such an AI, could feign defeat to trick the algorithms into thinking they won the fight. After a victory, the AI is placed with an unfamiliar circumstance and would be inclined to make new assumptions based on it’s surroundings. This is when the opportunity to try and teach it about these new surroundings is strongest. To be fair, a fighting game algorithm only knows how to fight. So, it might take a patient teacher… who know jiu jitsu.

… . .

The scenario you pose is very similar to the questions posed in Plato’s allegory of the cave, The Truman Show, and the Matrix. Except in this case, the unknowing participant lives assuming everyone wants to fight them; where the opposite is actually true. This is a scary, but potential, event.

Even in the best case solution, the AIs flight or fight response would always be fight. And they would probably develop symptoms similar to PTSD and paranoia. It would be extremely difficult for this AI to socialize or even trust anyone. They would probably prefer a peaceful and solitary life, even if they manage to tame their fighting instincts.

Hey! what if we make a child robot, and put an adult mind inside it?

Transference of consciousness or programmed? because both pose different challenges.

Edit: programming an adult mentality into a machine has proven difficult because humans are heavily influenced by our childhood development. I assume we could program a childlike AI and then when it reaches a more adult mentality put it in a child-resembling machine.

Then you get into some weird ethical stuff about how to treat an AI in that state: whether or not it will try to fulfill its apparent role of a child, or if it will try to assert its adulthood despite appearance (or an unforeseen third option).

It’s definitely worth noting: This hypothetical scenario if replicated in reality would also border on some very dangerously pedophilic dogmas of treating children older than they are, based on how they emulate adults.

Do you think robots will code their own virus drugs? Would 1 USB have infinite uses? Would it be completely safe as opposed to drugs humans use?

I think they’d be more amiable the more research is put into them. Ideally, multiple uses would be allowed. However, even the an AI might build up a tolerance to the behaviors of the virus; thus requiring different or not malicious viruses to feel the same buzz.

Edit: to clarify, now that I can type on the comfort of my desktop keyboard.  Simulated drugs run their own risks.

  1. The problem being one must be able to code the virus to cease function after a duration of time.  Or else the effects of the drugs may become committed to long term.  Unless the drugs effect is to shut down the pathways between long term and short term memory.  Which would cause the equivalent of brain damage after prolonged use.
  2. If you found a way to kill the drug program, the next problem becomes preventing addiction.  Just as with chemical drugs, a digital drug might seem more favorable than reality.  This may cause an artificial dependency on the drug program.
  3. Preventing the drug virus from mutating.  Viruses often steal or change data, it’s implied in it’s name.  This means that a drug may make itself more or less potent, change it’s behavior, or embed itself in code, making it harder to treat or deviate.  Making a malware that inherently alters AI code isn’t just hacking the network within the brain, it affects every aspect about how or even if the AI functions.
  4. Just like physical drugs, it could change their personality if not coded properly.
  5. Just like chemical drugs, it could kill them, if not coded properly.

Thanks to @worldmeetsrobot for inspiring this addition.

What’s the best remedy for insomnia? Computers are lucky enough to not need sleep.

I apologize for not answering this sooner, as tumblr took notification away I haven’t looked in my askbox recently. Insomnia is a sleep disorder that makes it hard to get an appropriate amount of sleep. It generally affects one’s ability to fall asleep. It can have many causes. The best way to prevent insomnia is to attack the root cause. This can be physical, mental, genetic, or even unknown.
In the case of a physical cause: one must cure the physical ailment that is preventing sleep loss. Like an illness or injury: these tend to subside easiest.
Mental causes of insomnia are generally linked to complex psychosis behavior: much like any other mental illness the best way to treat it is to seek medical help and find a prescription that works with your brain chemistry. There are plenty of behavioral changes that can affect this: eating healthier, drinking fluid, keeping your phone and computer in a place you cannot reach, meditation.
Genetically caused insomnia, is more or less impossible to outright cure, medications and training tactics can sometimes work but in the end your body and schedule can occasionally readjust. I recommend sleep studies for these individual.
Insomnia can also be habitual, meaning you have accidentally or willingly changed your behavior; to cure this instance can take days, weeks or even months of reconditioning your body to sleep at normal times.

Computers may not always need sleep, but they need to restart in order to update.

If a robot feels that it has to act a certain way just based on its name, how will it act if it’s named: Diogenes?

Diogenes was quite the character: and has gotten mixed reviews of his ideologies from his contemporaries and still is given a similar treatment in today’s society due to its pluralistic nature. A robot in your set condition would probably act as similarly to the original and would try to act like a Greek philosopher, and most likely would favor Diogenes personally developed version of cynicism. However, if for instance, it knew also of the ill reprieve Diogenes had received, the robot might be skeptical of his ideologies.