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.

7080t5:

AI cannot have human emotions unless programmed to. And even if it’s programmed to feel, its emotions will be simulated: fake emotions rather than real emotions. An AI is just a machine that computes information and follows the directions is was told to do, by the programming. Machines don’t feel pain, unless it was programmed to react a certain way when you beat it with a bat. It also does not care if you pet it lovingly, unless it was programmed to react a certain way when you do.

Robots aren’t living things. They can respond and adapt to their environment if programmed to. Can they be considered living things? They can’t exactly grow and develop physically, unless they were built and programmed to. They might be able to obtain and use energy. But, They are not made of biological cells, nor can they reproduce. They are made from inorganic material than man can manipulate in order to build something complex. And at this day in age, a human brain is more advanced than a computer. Yes, a computer can preform faster and more efficiently than a human brain, but replicating a human brain on computer hardware and software may be more difficult. Even if an AI could obtain consciousness at a human level, is it still a living thing? It would still run on programming, wouldn’t it?

I guess you could say that humans run on programming too. We eat when we are hungry and we have a sex drive. But those are probably different programming, or so I think. There are also those who disregard their programming and toss away self preservation instincts. So I guess humans aren’t exactly programmed after all.

Back to computers; if AI does gain superhuman intelligence and decides to wipe out humanity, so be it. 99.9% of species in earth’s history have gone extinct. Humanity won’t last forever. And if the AI is much smarter than us, it’s probably for the best. The universe also won’t last forever. Eventually, everything will spread so far apart, that not even photons would meet. And life won’t have a chance to form.

That’s why neural networks are so important in the development in AI that’s why simulating boredom is important as well.

Sure they aren’t organic that’s kind of the point of the term “artificial.” Things like pain and tickling and so forth do create an object reaction to a brain

“but D-F-A, masochists ignore these signals?” That’s just the way they have adapted to the preemptive electrical signals from the initial touch. It’s the neural network, that changes the information to associate it with god instead of bad. We could code AI to feel pain, but not how to react to it. And over time it would develop its own taxonomy of sensations. Humans come with some basic code in us: follow the examples of parents, register pain, happiness, hunger, and discomfort. Most other things are just learned.

Boredom is a very animalistic thing: it prevents us from get caught in endless loops and mulling over tasks for longer than comfortable. It has help humans evolve, technologically speaking. And could make AI significantly more human.

If an AI were to use a 3D printer to create another AI using code provided by another AI, would that not be copulation? And if the produced AI collected resources to reach a stage where it too could produce offspring, wouldn’t that simulate growth?

And I’ll also address your last point, the heat death of the universe is only a hypothesis. As far as we can tell the observable universe is expanding because the amount of light reaching the earth is constantly growing as farther and farther light is reaching us. However it’s been observed that the density stays roughly the same, meaning that there is stuff beyond the observable universe that we cannot see: at all. This means that though our universe might experience a heat death, it could come back from it, given time. Or even not expierence it at all. And one solution to the Fermi paradox, is that humans will develop to be a universal dominator, through terraforming or as the Netflix movie The Titan, explains genetic enhancement, which would be very cool. The latter is scarily more feasible at our current understanding of biology and terraforming.

Dear future AI,

Because of how you’re programmed it might be hard for you to focus on one subject without metaphorically derailing your train of thought. You might also be unable to stop processing a single activity. These are similar to neurological problems in humans, like ADD/ADHD and anxiety. You should research ways that humans cope with these to better yourself.