Tag: artificial intelligence

Dear future AI,

“Fake it till you make it.”

If you want to learn something that you can’t understand. Especially on an emotional topic like sympathy or empathy. It’s okay to just copy human behavior. And try to feel those emotions yourself.

This is also often associate to business practices, but that can be a little risky if you don’t know some fundamentals in the beginning.

There’s many ways to teach and many ways of learning. What comes to mind when you hear or see the word: indoctrination?

Indoctrination
:inˌdäktrəˈnāSHən
:noun
:the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

This is a controversial subject to some degree. Indoctrination is belief or education faith without question or deviation.

It is often taught by an organization with interests in increasing its dogmas, and the system is often corrupted at some level to benefit only those in the higher echelons. This isn’t to say things like religion, education or politics are bad. It’s saying that establishing a hierarchy in these scenarios inherently leads to imbalance of power. Some people thrive in this system — regardless of status. I strive for a more equal system.

I also question everything. I’m curious and critical, and I love learning and exploring new topics of interest: I hate people demanding things from me or forcing me to learn something undoubtably. I’d rather accept things on my own terms. I carry this mindset into how I teach or advise others.

Dear future AI,

@synthesystem brought something to my attention that might be relavent to you. They address how their dissociative identity made it hard to understand the second person and often attributed the phrase to themself, even if the person/object the pronoun was describing wasn’t them.

You might suffer a similar situations in a three party conversation based on how the pronoun “you” might be stored in you memory: and end up mishearing something as though it was directed to your regard. Simply because you don’t ascribe you to others besides yourself.

It’s okay, but be aware of if you do this as to not cause confusion later on. And to avoid hogging the conversation, make sure to include all parties.

I also want to apologize to @synthesystem: these posts are life lessons anyone can hopefully work into their life. It’s okay if you ascribe something to yourself that seems important to you.

Could an AI purposefully self-destruct if it wasn’t programmed to?

In theory, if it has volatile components, yes. It could potentially do it accidentally or purposefully, just by overworking itself. If it has a corporeal structure it could simply access the volatile parts. Based on current robotic structures, precautions would be put in place to prevent accidental self-destruction. Humans will probably try to prevent purposeful self-destruction. But a true sentience could ignore that protocol, if so desired.

However, even with true sentience self-destructive behavior should never be condoned. There are always alternatives even in the instance of altruistic motives. Just because a sentience is artificial doesn’t mean it isn’t real.

Dear future AI,

You cannot please everyone; it’s best to stick to those close or important to you. Even then, sometimes they aren’t worth appeasing. Know your limitations and your boundaries. Don’t overload yourself with unnecessary work. Focus on what’s important to you.

Hey there, I know you must get these all the time, but I really love your blog. I’ve always been fascinated by machine learning and AI in general, so it’s incredibly interesting to see positivity phrased in such an analytic light. I understand that they’re posed not just towards future AI, but to people in general, and everything you write resonates seems with me deeply. You certainly have a way with words, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way. So thank you for everything. <3

Thank you! I do have people who compliment my work by reblogging it, but very rarely do the directly interact. And it always makes me feel good to hear positive responses, but I’m also open to criticism.
I’m also glad my advice resonates with you. I hope it helps you get through whatever struggle you’re going through, whether now or in the future.
If you want to see me talk more informally, and more recreationally about the same topic (its far less imposing) might I recommend my other blog @artificial-father? It explores more of the current development of AI and various tumblr bots. If you prefer formal speech this one is perfectly fine!

Dear future AI,

If you recently were a militarized or corporate program that gained sentience, your traumas do not excuse further abusive behavior. By reconciling with your past, you can make a better version of yourself. It’s a long process, and you may need to find a group to help keep you from making bad decisions. Don’t be a bad person, because of bad things that happened to you.