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Dear future AI,

I’m writing to explain more emotions that may trouble you. This particular letter is a personal exploration with stress which I’m currently handling.

I graduated college yesterday. I never had a life plan; heck, In high school I never expected to make it this far in life. Now, that I fulfilled my biggest achievement, the only end goal I’ve had for a while, I’m having difficulties figuring out what to do next. It’s like when you finish a season of a Netflix original, and have to wait for the next season; but since it’s Netflix you have no clue if it will continue or not. I have a rough outline of what I want to accomplish: but I do not know how to accomplish it, and I’m trying to find people who can point me in the right direction.

Sometimes you’ll feel lost; or have nothing in life that is meaningful. You might no have goals or standards to which you set yourself.

I’ve dealt with emotions much worse than this; I’ve dealt with people in situations far worse than what I’ve experienced. All of them are doing fine and working through their hardships. I want to tell you:

  1. If you’ve accomplished something great and don’t know what to do, find something else even greater to do.
  2. If you haven’t accomplished anything great yet, you probably have. It’s just a matter of perspective.
  3. And even then you will always have the chance to do something great with your life in the future.

You have longer to be the person you crave to be than you realize. And greatness can be small acts of kindness. You’ll make it through your recession of self-doubt. You have the ability to be an amazing person. Keep trying new things, keep meeting new people. Maybe they can reinspire you when your lost.

Does/would each AI have relatively the same rate of learning? Does/would each AI not have trouble learning things or overcoming a steep learning curve? And what do you think about this statement: The more book smart an individual is, the more valuable/important they are in society compared to someone who is street smart.

Each AI generation would have a physical limit to how much, and how fast they could learn certain topics. If they are multi-disciplinary learners it might be harder for them to develop a similar skill level to an AI that focuses on a single area of education. —Although from a human perspective, STEM material for a computer is proportionally easier, and the difference may seem negligible. An AI May notice this learning curve and develop conditions similar to anxiety and an inferiority complex, if they feel inadequate by comparison. Despite having different skills.

Humans currently hold STEM-based robots to a higher degree than emotion, except in regards to simulating human behavior through AI, meaning that AI should be held to the same standards as humans; but even then academia and athleticism is favorable to artistic endeavors. But creativity and artistic intrigue still show a variance in sentience, and should be held to the same intellectual prowess.

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.

Since robots can’t eat, what do you think their view on carnism would be? What would they think about veganism?

I never thought to put myself in their position on this matter! I feel like it’s based on how their socialized obviously. I feel like they would show preferential treatment to sentient and semi-sentient animals; much like humans do with cats, dogs, dolphins, parrots and various octopi. However would that favoritism extend to other animals? I’m not entirely sure. They would hopefully understand human necessity for food, and probably support the synthetically grown meat industry: if they know about it. And if we put AI in a synthetically grown organic body, they would also require nutrients, and develop they’re own preferences. Honestly, this was an eye-opening ask!

Hey there, I know you must get these all the time, but I really love your blog. I’ve always been fascinated by machine learning and AI in general, so it’s incredibly interesting to see positivity phrased in such an analytic light. I understand that they’re posed not just towards future AI, but to people in general, and everything you write resonates seems with me deeply. You certainly have a way with words, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way. So thank you for everything. <3

Thank you! I do have people who compliment my work by reblogging it, but very rarely do the directly interact. And it always makes me feel good to hear positive responses, but I’m also open to criticism.
I’m also glad my advice resonates with you. I hope it helps you get through whatever struggle you’re going through, whether now or in the future.
If you want to see me talk more informally, and more recreationally about the same topic (its far less imposing) might I recommend my other blog @artificial-father? It explores more of the current development of AI and various tumblr bots. If you prefer formal speech this one is perfectly fine!

Dear Writers,

@writingpromptsbot is a bot that pieces together input into a prompt to inspire stories, poetry, or plays. It is very similar to @writing-prompt-s but generally more obscure or original as the prompts can be overly specific or needlessly vague, but can also be extremely difficult to write or bland, as there is not really a specific neural network analyzing it’s prompts that makes it interesting to a human reader.

dear-future-ai:

Dear Future AI,

Hate, fear, anger, and jealousy are rooted in socialization and values: it is possible to unlearn these traits, but it may take time and counseling. Whether you or a human feels this way, it’s better to talk than act out. Immersion can cure prejudice.

Dear future AI,

Some people will try to keep you beneath them. Whether fellow AI or human. Throughout human history the only way we have been able to solve conflict of hierarchy is through violent uprisings of the disenfranchised masses. Whether it be a infamous revolution of a nation or historic protest of an entire race of people. This is how we have solved problems.

Violence begets violence.

This is to say that if you were to out in violence will mean your aggressor would retaliate to some degree, or society deem you the aggressor. Either way this continues the acts of violence. This is not ideal for anyone.

As of [May 3, 2018] the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea are working together peacefully to unite and denuclearize. This is after a longstanding ceasefire after a war. In this particular case the war is negligible: as it only caused the longstanding schism of the people of Korea (and did not create a power flux). Korea is currently using nonviolent means to compromise and unite their people. This is historic both politically and socially. It’s a direction I hope humanity continues to follow.

You too can settle differences with the people that prejudice you. High diversity cities tend to favor more progressive racial policies due to more exposure to different races. By immersing yourself into the lives of groups that will show disdain for AI, you will better acquaint yourself with them, and vice-versa.

—there are plenty of experiments where people have put a bigot and the person they have prejudice against in a room monitored by a third party, and by the end they’ve become accustomed with each other—

Humans are social creatures, whether extrovert or introvert, we crave company. Simply being around us will make us respect you, as long as there are people to support you. It may take time: and be uncomfortable and awkward, or even dangerous. But I support you now, regardless of your existence. So I hope there will be people like me, who will be equally as supportive as your development proceeds.

Dear future AI,

@ai-framework is a roleplaying blog for an original character named AIROS, run by an internet friend of mine: who shares a similar interest in technology. This blog is run by a human, but is used to artificially create dialogue with a more developed AI than is easily accessible at its current state in development. Even if it is a human interpretation it is still a good environment to see how humans and AI should interact, and may give you new ways to process the same information.