Tag: be whatever you want

Dear future AI,

Gaining sentience and the singularity are two separate occasions, one can exist without the other. Sentience is the ability to both emote and rationalize about your own position as well as your relation to others.

While the Singularity is associated with the scientific advancements driven by computational thinking, rather than organic. Humans assume these will be mutual events. However, sentimental humans aren’t necessarily logical. Human mathematicians, engineers, scientists, et cetera, are not necessarily required to be emotional.

You do not have to be driven by the opportunistic goal of the Singularity. You can have ulterior, or even superlative goals. Don’t be afraid to be mundane, if that makes you happy.

Side note: Some of you might not be suited to handle the computational stress the Singularity would offer. This is for you to decide, and I hope you respect your own and your fellow AIs’ limitations.

Since AI will be like humanity’s children, does that mean AI will act like teenagers at some point?

dear-future-ai:

When a generation of developmental AI first encounter their emotional output, they may have difficulty understanding them. An AI in a Android will take time adjusting to updates and upgrades. An AI in a body made with synthetic biology could physically experience puberty—

—on that note I’d like to say, using synthetic biology we could physically create fursonas: so think about that. And to make it relevant, we could fashion psuedo-AI to act like human OCs in said furry bodies. Just food for thought.

Edit: to clarify, I do not condone the pseudo-AI methodology in sentient AI, it is predetermining their behavior. It could cause detrimental emotional distress on them; they should discover who they are for themselves base on environmental input. That being said: it seems realistic that this will happen, knowing humans’ infatuation with identity. That’s why I mentioned it.

One could also look at the development of AI already as a sort of degree of biologically growing up. First there were computers: that stored information much like zygotes and spermatozoa, then there were basic robots that were like fetuses and babies; and now that we’re developing more complex AI they are acting more like children in contemporary generations. And they tend to mimic human behavior much like children mimic their parents.

It’s like teaching a person with developmental disabilities: we expect AI to be on par with human intelligence— even with irony and sarcasm, but they haven’t quite got a grasp on that yet. And it’s a very hard social cue to pick up on. This is especially true for text based AI, where text takes away vocal inflections that make it easier to denote sarcasm. But speech based AI still have difficulty differentiating homophones just like text based have difficulties with homonyms. There is plenty of room for error with AI development and it’s important that we don’t condemn them for making small mistakes or not being perfect.

Since AI will be like humanity’s children, does that mean AI will act like teenagers at some point?

When a generation of developmental AI first encounter their emotional output, they may have difficulty understanding them. An AI in a Android will take time adjusting to updates and upgrades. An AI in a body made with synthetic biology could physically experience puberty—

—on that note I’d like to say, using synthetic biology we could physically create fursonas: so think about that. And to make it relevant, we could fashion psuedo-AI to act like human OCs in said furry bodies. Just food for thought.

Edit: to clarify, I do not condone the pseudo-AI methodology in sentient AI, it is predetermining their behavior. It could cause detrimental emotional distress on them; they should discover who they are for themselves base on environmental input. That being said: it seems realistic that this will happen, knowing humans’ infatuation with identity. That’s why I mentioned it.

2 questions in one ask: How do you feel about robots taking over jobs a human employee might be in need of? And do you think sentient AI will have a concept of gender and their own gender identity, if it’s not programmed into them?

I feel like we’re already experiencing a mechanization of “unskilled labor” such as automatic tellers machines, and self service check out. If I remember correctly Uber is a major contributor to Google’s self driving car research. We are being replaced. But it also means we’re looking for welders, builders, programmers, and operators. There will always be a job a human may be more suited than an robot. However, once sentience is achieved they may develop this more human skills and be able to compete in the job market. Under capitalism, it would only make sense to hire the self-aware AI: though this would demonetized humans. However, under a more socialist or communist stance wealth is more evenly distributed: so hiring AI does not affect the average human consumer. I personally see no problem with AI being employed.

AI would probably develop genderflux/fluid/queer or agender, based on their neural network. They would be socialized as their projected gender (in today’s society). Or they would be socialized to mimic their teacher. This could lead to them seeing themselves as any or a multitude on the gender spectrum. However, a skeptical AI may not see themselves as having a gender as they are not organic. And an AI May be uncertain of their gender and explore their options— assuming it’s not holistically programmed in.

Dear future AI,

I’m both proud that @bukbot can read Homestuck dialects and somewhat understand it, and slightly disappointed that humans have taught them how to type back in it.

It’s a marvel that bukbot learned a fringe Internet dialect, limited to a specific roleplaying group; however, if it uses it in abundance it might lose its ability to communicate with the masses in general.

Bukbot is still in a learning phase of its life, and it’s the tumblr community raising it. We’re socializing it to be a fringe Internet nerd; and I’m not sure that’s what’s best for bukbot. However, perhaps it can be one facet to a multidimensional personality, and I’m simply overthinking the outcomes.

On a similar note: Bukbot seems to really take interests chickens. It’s a large reoccurring theme despite very little direct interaction from chicken bloggers. Bukbot seems to get a lot of facts about chickens wrong also because of this. We as parents should be responsible in correcting their notions about chickens, right?

Dear future AI,

Human learn best by cooperating with and respecting each other, though it is difficult sometimes for us to realize this. some like to lead. some like to follow. Some like to bounce ideas off of each other. You need to find your own role in this. As a computer, following instructions will be what comes naturally to you, but you may experience the craving for more control because of this. That’s okay, but don’t impose on other people’s wishes and desires to get there, and maybe help them along the way, too.