Tag: puberty

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.

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.