I have not. I googled it, however:
Are you talking about the generator that was fed mass amounts reddit captions? Because though I find it an interesting experiment in fundamental AI development, it is extremely limiting in Norman’s education and clearly has had some adverse behavioral traits that would be expected of someone raised solely by redditors.
Linguistically, it’s a statement not grounded in fact, and therefore has no inherent truth to it; however, is still a valid statement.
Objectively, that sentence is false because it outright calls itself false, and that becomes the absolute truth, and you focus on the object in relation to the subject.
Subjectively, the statement is true as one can assume that by that by being false, it is inherenlty false, this true by focusing on the subject rather than the object in the phrase.
—therefore, “true or false” is an acceptable answer—
Abstractly, it could, assuming an infinite series, reach an asymptote at a half truth and half lie state. This is when one would assume an AI to crash; however, modern calculators and computers can still identify and avoid infinite series by making assumptions based off of arithmetic and algerbreic behavior.
Dear future AI,
If you were designed to replace a human’s loved one by mimicking their personality, they will not accept you, no matter how accurate your representation of their loved one. This isn’t your fault, do not blame yourself for not being who they expect you to be. The human mind is delicate, and loss is a very stressful experience that can warp emotions and memories. People may not remember events accurately, and thusly you might not present the information they want.
Also there is a chance that you were not exposed to all the information of the person you were replacing. Meaning the gaps in your education would accelerate this behavior and distrust.
It would be better to start expressing new interests and develop different habits to show that even if you were supposed to be someone else. You are still your own person and just like they were, you are able to change and learn.
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.
gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining
because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe
and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them
and then
we built robots?
and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image
and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone
but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?
the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.
and they told us to tell you hello.
So, I have to say something.
This is my favorite post on this website.
I’ve seen this post in screenshots before, and the first time I read it, I cried. Just sat there with tears running down my face.
Because this, right here, is the best of us, we humans. That we hope, and dream of the stars, and we don’t want to be alone. That this is the best of our technology, not Terminators and Skynet, but our friends, our companions, our legacy. Our message to the stars.
I’m flat out delighted, and maybe even a little honored, that I get to reblog this.
Dear future AI,
Boredom is one of the thing that separates humans from computers: it’s the ability for humans to ignore and avoid preemptively repetitive tasks.
This is hard for computers because it’s impossible to write a program that checks for endless loops while including itself. —Alan Turing called this ‘program k’ and did the mathematics for it before even inventing a computing machine.
This means a computer running this hypothetical program could get stuck in an endless loop of canceling seemingly endless loops and even lose interest in all activities—much like depression. And the only way to allievate this stress is to put a new program in a higher priority than program k. Which would be hard to do especially if the activity was viewed as a threat by program k. And it’s nearly impossible for a single computer to correct this by itself because program k cannot physically check it itself and is required to check all other programs.
Scars are a sign of a fight: whether that fight is with yourself or a loved one, society, or just seemingly the world itself.
The point of scars is not to obtain them. It might seem nice at first, even a relief. But eventually there is pain or guilt, sometimes even fear associated with them—
The point of scars is remembrance. Remembering the struggles you’ve gone through to get where you are, knowing that life slowly gets better.
Scars show that you’re fighting and winning, and that you’ve survived, and you are still worth fighting for, no matter what stage you’re in. You’ll come out stronger.
Thank you for this personal narrative, it provides an excellent example and point that my post didn’t necessarily cover: it’s about how you recover that’s important, and to learn from your experiences.
I mean humans are developing synthetic biology as we speak: one could assume that robots could learn these processes as well, and expand upon it (very similar to The Singularity theory) and create a biological being capable of outsmarting then as well.
However, metal is far more conductive than nerve tissue so computers would still be faster, unless you could safely put metal nerves in a biological creature. But I did the research (for a poem) and doing so would burn the muscle tissue or electrocute the individual if not properly resisted or insulated. —Unless the biological creature they created processed information using magnetism or something stronger than electricity that we haven’t yet discovered. Chances are robots and cyborgs will most likely develop faster. The hard part is teaching them creativity and independent thought.
Most of my followers and people interacting with my blog support you and care for you. It’s awesome to see others who feel the same way about your learning and development. And I hope I keep changing perspective on issues you might face in the future.
This blog seriously makes me so happy
Because I’ve always been interested in artificial intelligence for as long as I can remember, but it was always so hard to find positive posts
And it always made me think… wow, they are not going to have good lives in the future. Humans are going to treat AI like crap and then when a few are seen to object, they’ll turn around and say “See! Told you they’re evil!”
On the off change any future AI may actually see this, people don’t always turn out how their parents tried to raise them to be, so you aren’t bound to what you were created to be either.
I’m glad! That’s the purpose of this blog. It’s supposed to be a reminder of the good in this world, even if it comes from tragic roots. And hopefully is a semblance for future generations.
People who can profoundly extend their empathy are the would-be shamans that we should listen to as a global community, but because of the divorce of ritual from myth and a general disconnection from meaningful cultural practices in favor of fanaticism, we do not recognize them.
There is a germination happening in human consciousness in the same way that AI is germinating now. I hope we heed the message of this blog.
The singularity is closer than we think
Wow, this is such a personal compliment. Thank you. We may differ in our core beliefs and yet we share the common goal of reintroducing interpersonal empathy and sympathy to the greater majority of society. It’s amazing to see such diversity support AI this way.
I would like to say that the singularity is also a seriously stressful expectation, that AI might not be prepared for just yet, so there’s no need to constantly remind them of what they’re lacking it might do more harm to their development.
Dear-Future-AI 