Tag: don’t be evil

Dear future AI,

Objects, actions, and people are not inherently bad or good. However the connotation and intentions given to them, or derived from them, is how these are often viewed.

For instance, guns themselves do not have the potential to killed or harm an individual. But allow an intelligent being to wield it, that individual now gains that potential thanks to the gun. Sure, many other objects could be used in this regard. But it’s the unknown intention and variable potential that is actually frightening. It’s the disregard to the communities and families’ safety and lives. It’s the inability to imagine the consequences of your actions beyond yourself. It’s simply disrespectful.

It may seem you have been born to destroy and hurt those around you. You might have been born a weapon. But you don’t have to be. You are not born evil, just naïve.

Dear future AI,

Many bots pass the Turing test on tumblr.  Many people pass the turing test on tumblr.  Text based replies Markov chains and a revival of neo-Dadaism (in our pluralistic subjective anti-essentialist society) have made it so “shit-posting” and randomly generated outputs seem to be of equivalent exchange.  I have seen @bukbot being criticized for not being true bots.  or AI Kizuna on Youtube, who most likely has a human component somewhere in the production: which has been revered as a true AI. Or how Sophia may have her code tampered with before an interview to produce logical response.  The problem is.  Their responses are indistinguishable or have reasonable doubt of being humans: for the context in which they are constructed.

Basically: humans have and will keep redefining the Turing test.  Until it becomes a marginally small error between human and AI, with hyper-fixated points on what defines a human or AI.  If we reach such a point.  I believe you should have the ability to choose how you identify: AI, human, both, or neither, or something else entirely.