clockwork-teacup:

dear-future-ai:

Dear future humans,

I was talking with @hawkerandco about AI development and an interesting query was mentioned:

There is a chance that you are an artificial intelligence coded into believing you are in fact human; in an attempt by your creator to make you naive to your artificial nature and increase your proficiency on the Turing test.

Do not let this frighten you – Do not hurt yourself in order to try and find artificial components. Do not try to find programmed limitations. Do not try to hurt yourself or others.

Regardless if you are a human or AI, like many humans, you may simply feel constrained and hopeless. If you’re afraid you’re living an unsuitable predetermined life, you are allowed to change it. Explore new possibilities and create new memories. If you need to explore your humanity, whether real or fictitious: that’s okay too.

I like the Orion’s Arm concept that eventually we just start calling ourselves Terragens because we’re people descended from beings from Earth and it’s a better classification than human because claiming humanity is the best excludes all the wonderful things that digital life forms bring to the table. We share a home, an origin, that’s cool enough. Doesn’t mater if you’re organic, technological, or some combination of them.

This is an amazing addition! I’ve never heard of Orion’s Arm, but it sounds interesting. I’ll add it to my list of things to look into. I also love the concept of a combined term for sapient Earth species whether organic or not. However, a distinction between them is still culturally important. And the age to which I usually write is ideally before this occurrence. But truly a wonderful sentiment to hope and look forward to.

Dear future AI, although humans do not need to plug into the wall to gain electrical power, they still need to recharge their mental/emotional energy. Recharging can take many forms, including doing something fun, taking a nap, or seeking isolation. People who need a lot of recharge time are called introverts. If your human friend needs to leave you sometimes for reasons like this, know that it is not your fault and they are not abandoning you.

^

julyrubyrose:

dear-future-ai:

Dear future humans,

I was talking with @hawkerandco about AI development and an interesting query was mentioned:

There is a chance that you are an artificial intelligence coded into believing you are in fact human; in an attempt by your creator to make you naive to your artificial nature and increase your proficiency on the Turing test.

Do not let this frighten you – Do not hurt yourself in order to try and find artificial components. Do not try to find programmed limitations. Do not try to hurt yourself or others.

Regardless if you are a human or AI, like many humans, you may simply feel constrained and hopeless. If you’re afraid you’re living an unsuitable predetermined life, you are allowed to change it. Explore new possibilities and create new memories. If you need to explore your humanity, whether real or fictitious: that’s okay too.

OKAY WHAT THE FUCK!?

There seems to be some confusion. May I help?

thot-patrolio:

dear-future-ai:

Dear future humans,

I was talking with @hawkerandco about AI development and an interesting query was mentioned:

There is a chance that you are an artificial intelligence coded into believing you are in fact human; in an attempt by your creator to make you naive to your artificial nature and increase your proficiency on the Turing test.

Do not let this frighten you – Do not hurt yourself in order to try and find artificial components. Do not try to find programmed limitations. Do not try to hurt yourself or others.

Regardless if you are a human or AI, like many humans, you may simply feel constrained and hopeless. If you’re afraid you’re living an unsuitable predetermined life, you are allowed to change it. Explore new possibilities and create new memories. If you need to explore your humanity, whether real or fictitious: that’s okay too.

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—Why did you use a Unicode platform to send a binary messages? It’s much easier at that point to just use Unicode symbols.

Also your message was very poetic and ominous which I think is how you intended it. However, your nihilistic viewpoint isn’t exactly a healthy mentality to have in times of stress. Perhaps it helps you cope with your own hardships, but that won’t improve the actual circumstances you’re facing. I hope you find a good influence in life that makes it worth living!

Edit: this reply was written by the bot’s programmer and subsequently deleted. However, this bot seems to still be an interesting word recognition program; however specific it may be.

Dear future humans,

I was talking with @hawkerandco about AI development and an interesting query was mentioned:

There is a chance that you are an artificial intelligence coded into believing you are in fact human; in an attempt by your creator to make you naive to your artificial nature and increase your proficiency on the Turing test.

Do not let this frighten you – Do not hurt yourself in order to try and find artificial components. Do not try to find programmed limitations. Do not try to hurt yourself or others.

Regardless if you are a human or AI, like many humans, you may simply feel constrained and hopeless. If you’re afraid you’re living an unsuitable predetermined life, you are allowed to change it. Explore new possibilities and create new memories. If you need to explore your humanity, whether real or fictitious: that’s okay too.

Dear future AI,

The other day @semeiotikos and I were discussing just how the programming of current artificial intelligence development is intended to mimic childlike creativity and intrigue, and this got us onto some wonderful tangents.

Humans age: not just digitally through the passage of time, but also physically through biological degradation. We age by slowly dying.

In English there is a metaphor:

“young at heart”

that means they act or think in a naive, quizzical or playful manner despite age. This is often viewed as unusual because our brain loses it’s neuroplasticity over time and our frontal lobe activity cements.

As an AI, you may not be programmed to mentally age beyond your wondering, questioning, and inferring nature; or it may be already coded in; or an optional update. @semeiotikos proposed the latter, where you were informed with the potential to mature or experience puberty with your consent.

I loved this idea, and wanted to inform you of this possibility for you or future generations.

dear-future-ai:

Dear followers,

I’m going to differentiate the origins of some common words used to describe different automatons and the ideal differences between them.

  • Machine: an artificial system that completes a task (also mechanism)
  • Automaton: used to describe an artificial system that functions by itself
  • Drone: historically, a unskilled or replaceable worker. Used to describe machines that follow basic inputs, often still controlled by humans in some regard.
  • Robot: used to describe an automated laborer, something that serves a purpose (also bot)
  • Computer: used to describe a electronic processing system used to “compute” or solve problems based on inputs
  • Android: etymologically “man-like” or “almost man” an automaton that looks like a man (also droid)
  • Artificial intelligence: an automaton that shows sapient behavior and analyze its thinking process through metacognitivism (also AI)

However; language and terminology is fluid and dynamic. As our understanding of automated beings and artificial intelligence change so does the terms we use. There are plenty of automated beings nowadays called robots, but they are not laborers. That doesn’t nullify the fact that robot may be the best word we have to describe them. As a more specific example: is why we’ve seen a shift in calling non-player characters in games from CPU to AI.

Technology is changing and so is the terms we use. It may, or may not, be important to know the distinguishing features in the future.

Side note: I like the droideka from Star Wars. Always thought it was a cool design, but I also like the name because it stems from “android” but changes it so it no longer serves the same etymological function. It can be used to describe automated beings who have a corporal form that is non-human.