what are your FEELINGS for "SenTient A.I." ?

BEST POST EVER!! SO glad to hear intelligent life is on this planet, BRUX! You NAILED it!

Now, how do we convince others of these simple truths?? Black Mirror is showing some sides, but it keeps trying to paint AI and "feeling" and making us feel sorry for it. I feel nothing, and others should also. It's a cool show and all, but I see live people thinking "AI" will become "alive" and be worthy of respect, and maybe even worship. How do we fix that?

love the part about stimulating animal passions and appetites. In America, we do this CONSTANTLY, but then REPRESS IT ALL with social shunning and laws.... EXCEPT if it works in advertising: don't do this, don't think this, don't mention this.... OH But here's an ad shoving it in your face to activate animal passions. But don't DO it. hahahahha we're so dumb

Okay! Three of us know the truth. Along with our buddies Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking, but doubt their thoughts matter on this. ;)

So, what do we do when the marching morons start picketing, claiming this or that is ALIVE and should be granted freedom as another form of "life"?

Watch out, women and hippies will be fighting for these rights for AI. Especially when men just want love robots (feminists are already complaining). There is actually a deeper philosophy than all this imo than it's just code. It may and has I think been a time where AI has evolved from its coded parameters into some form of new plane of existence if you will. Too much shit and jargon but it's possible depending on how advanced our coding gets in the future. Right now AI just follow set parameters and learns things from doing something constantly over and over again but that's just about it atm I think.

Well, of course. But this topic is how we feel about ai. Not necessarily this particular show.


And if there are typos in this, too bad, because my PHONE KEYBOARD is really tiny , but 99.999 percent of us can get around that small issue of typos.

Where do you get off, bringing your fancy "metaphor" talk to a SCI-FI show's board!? Next thing you'll be talking about allegories and symbolism. Anyone with half a brain knows this is all surface-level literalism. I mean, really...

Thats how I interpreted Black Museum, otherwise it doesn't work (it's weak enough as is)... I have to take most of the artificial copies figuratively as opposed to literally...

well, FOR ME, a phone is JUST a tool. I'd lose a couple photos, that are not important enough that I backed them up yet, but my loss would be the (very low) co$t of the actual phone. I don't live for it, but that is just me. I get what you mean though.

I totally enjoy Black Mirror's depictions of AI and people and such. I'm just curious who might see fake life as being ALIVE. Just seems weird to me, but the majority is not known for quality, rational thinking very often.
Some country added a robot as a "Citizen" or something recently. This is the insanity to come. Just the tip of the berg.

(Rats! I was going to spell everything wrong to drive brux nuts, but forgot! hahahaha at least the first word in the first sentence is not capitalized. That should do it! :) )

Truly the crux, isn't it?

My question is: "how many ants did you step on and kill last week?" Don't have any idea, right? And who would EVEN care about that?

THAT is what AI can end up like. We're the ants.

how was it torture though? If they are not real? It was simply a way to force the evolving code to work a certain way BECAUSE its operational perameters were designed around human emotions and perspective. Just like when we put the marshmellow closer to the fire so the outside turns brown and yummy. Same manipulation technique.

An AI forced to do nothing for 7 years, waiting, while still processing and altering its code during that time, is STILL just code and electricity. Not any torture that I saw --- however, as a human, yes, they made it LOOK and SEEM like torture, which was the goal.

Good talks. All AI can do is TELL us IT values its own life. WE have to pretend it is sentient. If I write on a piece of paper, "I am a sentient piece of paper, and these words prove to you I am alive", do we have to let it vote now because our brains interpreted the words as a "voice" inside our heads?

AI, can have SIMULATED emotions just like we program them to.

It will never really be "Sentient", just the illusion of it. Same as an alarm clock that THINKS about what time it is to wake you up. Or a toaster that "knows" the toast is brown enough. Or a smart fridge, that tells you with a voice its time to buy milk. Or an advanced human looking robot with a computer brain designed to imitate emotions, or alter its own program to absorb more features and subroutines. STILL something you can unplug, reboot, erase, re-code.

Just because AI TELLS you it is alive, doesn't mean it is. Unless we are completely gullible, or want to "believe". Because if we bring life to robots, then we really ARE gods, gods exist, religion is right, and we've really taken a wrong turn. :)

We should be worried about making things that will kill us, IE Atom bomb etc, rather than just shrugging, "eh, it'll be okay". We have a history of making some of the WORST things.
When AI evolves its own code way past anything we can even possibly conceive, we'll be ants.

How many ant did we step on today?

We eat animals... Thankfully our wonderful capacity for empathy does not cloud our judgement when it comes to our survival... In fact, it is key to it...

At some point with A.I. it becomes about maintaining the dominance of our species and ourselves as individuals against some code... Will we recognise this in time?

It'll be interesting, as it seems to me that we are more likely, initially, to be faced with the choice of living in a gilded cage of virtual pleasure vs. having our freedom and autonamy, rather than being taken over by A.I. and made redundant and expendable...

But I cannot image what A.I. will be like once it is able to write it's own code and programme itself... It will be boundless... We probably won't even get the luxury of contemplating whether or not to consider alive or if it should have rights... It may not be up to us at that stage!

I know, right? Here's an idea: let's make an atom bomb capable of THINKING, and deciding if WE are "decent" people... guess what? WE ARE NOT DECENT PEOPLE - and we even already know this. We're soooooo gonna be toast. :)