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<pre wrap=""> (12/3/04 11:21) Mike Lorrey <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mlorrey@yahoo.com"><mlorrey@yahoo.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">--- Hal Finney <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hal@finney.org"><hal@finney.org></a> wrote:>
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<pre wrap="">Maybe wrapping it in a fuzzy exterior will help, child robots and
talking
dogs: "Hello, I'm Rags, woof, woof". But the reality is that people
are going to be working side by side with these systems, and I think
that is how they will base their conception of them as helpful or
dangerous.
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<pre wrap="">Yes. Creating personality modules that, at least, mimic a personality
that is non-threatening (teddy bear, sexy female, child's voice, etc)
is the key to limiting or preventing proscriptive regulation.
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That is, until some enterprising hack^H^H^H^H movie producer releases a summer blockbuster about an AI trapped in a teddy bear's body that goes berserk, puts on a hockey mask, invades people's minds, and kills them all as part of a plot to destroy the Earth with "fricken lasers"
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Isn't this fun.<br>
We are all observers in the primordial soup speculating about how life
will come about.<br>
In doing so we learn more about our own selves and possible origins as
well.<br>
However let's hope the AI is not a reflection of its creators or better
yet lets hope it chooses it's<br>
role models better than some of us humans do.<br>
In reflecting about the rate of human development over the last 100,000
years it seems that the rate of and efficiency of communication is the
key driving factor. <br>
The full convergence of all known technology and knowledge in an AI
which spans the entire globe to me marks the<br>
point at which the singularity begins. <br>
Yes there will be quite an exponential rate change, but I would expect
that novel constraints will emerge.<br>
Allocation of resources to preserving a historical preserve/ living
museum stocked with modern humans <br>
may be of dubious value to an AI whose goal is to optimize resource
use to maximize its evolutionary rate.<br>
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