Fuckin flash sites crashing my computer… I might come back to it.
I was thinking about mimic AIs. Trained via chat rooms and IM to mimic humans. A kind of human shell, no life really, but must have learned to mimic having a life and all that goes with it. Also got me thinking about that movie where giant praying mantis’ live in the underground and pretend to be humans (mimic). Thinking about AI’s hanging around in chat rooms until they can kill someone and take over their personality and life. Needs some more thought. Prob not a good story by itself.
I got to this via Cory Doctorow’s post on boingboing about evolving AIs.
post on boingboing about evolving AIs
The turing test isnt any good any more. I dont think AI in any useful (for us or them) will look or feel like human intelligence (maybe it will if we force it to be).
The evolutionary approach is good, but cant use a human interaction criteria as a good one to further generations. the ecology/environment/universe that AIs evolve in needs to be thought about. This universe would need to be more complex than the AIs that are evolving. So we need to evolve them outside the “jar”. Cant do it in vitro.
I need to do some more thinking around this. I seem to be leading down the path that we have to evolve AI outside the lab. Provide them with a complex set of input. I do think we will be evolving/breeding/training this sort of “intelligence” for specific applications first. So any sort of human level intelligence will be emergent from complex pattern matching/predicitve engines that specialist fields.
