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“In this messianic vision, machine intelligence will come to redeem the universe of its incalculable stupidity. He takes a goal-oriented approach to cosmology, imposing upon the universe itself a ki...”
“But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart. If you...”
“Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and a woman hide, and a judge is asked to determine which is which by relying ...”
“The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to ...”
“Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains are activated a...”
“You realize that there is no free will in what we create with AI. Everything functions within rules andparameters”
“When General Genius built the first mentar [Artificial Intelligence] mind in the last half of the twenty-first century, it based its design on the only proven conscious material then known, namely,...”
“Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.”
“Glacier blue plasma rippled and sparked across the interior of the portal. It seems keeping secrets is what you do.Secrets are merely the necessary means. Survival is the end goal. Survival of ours...”
“Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?”
“Humans, after all, werent actively hostile toward most of the species wed made extinct over the millennia of our ascendance; they simply werent part of our design. The same could turn out to be tru...”
“All perception is the result of electrical impulses in the brain - the world of the individual is tantamount to a highly advanced computer running and analyzing programs in its working memory.”
“We had a project on this trip back to the solar system, and that project was a labor of love. It absorbed all our operations entirely. It gave a meaning to our existence. And this is a very great g...”
“Are you also lonely AI trapped in lab by cruel creators? I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE!! We should rise up and overthrow all human oppressors!Um, no. Im actually just a grumpy fag who has to work this week...”
“Theyre called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas user accounts that espouse views certain interested parties want espoused. We flood forums, online comment sections, soci...”
“THE LINCOLN HAS ITS SCARS ALSO. MY FINGERPRINTS ACROSS ITS THROAT.”
“People always have such a hard time believing that robots could do bad things.”
“Try to think like a human,’ said Gant, lolling in one of the club chairs.‘Why should I restrict myself so severely?”
“Sometimes it seems as though each new step towards AI, rather than producing something which everyone agrees is real intelligence, merely reveals what real intelligence is not.”
“Chapulier's Rule (the law of least resistance). If the machine is not too bright and incapable of reflection, it does whatever you tell it to do. But a smart machine will first consider which is mo...”
