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Q&A Would the need for control limit a superintelligent rational agent's expansion in the universe?

My thoughts go like this: I postulate a superintelligent rational agent, that is given, or assumes, control over its mother civilization. I call this agent "the Ruler". I postulate that in order ...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Elias Hasle‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Elias Hasle‭

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Q&A Dangerous pending task in world managing A.I

I've had this idea for a short novel, at the intersection of the One thousand and one nights and the Multivac (& co) short stories from Asimov. The idea is that there's some kind of super AI t...

39 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Echox‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Echox‭

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Q&A How would a city of AI be built?

Someone has created an AI of human-level intelligence, and within hours this AI has grown in intelligence and power to the point that human life no longer seems so sacred. In an instant, all life o...

6 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by DaaaahWhoosh‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by DaaaahWhoosh‭

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Q&A Can you use an AI to shackle (control) an AI?

Intro and Context (feel free to skip if TL;DR) This question does not come in isolation. It is intrinsically linked with several previous posts (Challenge of Control and Humans as Pets) that have ...

9 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

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Q&A What would be the effects of transitioning to a new World-Wide Internet Network?

Imagine an intelligent virus that could back up portions of its code on every device connected to the internet. No matter how many times you try and delete the virus, it is able to reconstruct itse...

2 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Connor Olsen‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Connor Olsen‭

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Q&A How can androids suffer from a virus that spreads by contact

I'm toying with an idea to have a plague sweep across the galaxy in my story. At first I was thinking to have a plague, something similar to the Black Death, devastate populations across the galaxy...

10 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by JSwiss‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JSwiss‭

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Q&A Synthesis of Organic Life by a Machine

Given eggs and sperm, and the means to preserve them for centuries, could an artificially intelligent machine possibly produce its own "children", so to speak? Assume it has everything it and its ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by R. Greenlee‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by R. Greenlee‭

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Q&A My program designed to be resistant to malware and DOS attacks isn't letting me turn it off. What do I do?

So as an experiment, I took a bunch of machine learning algorithms (neural nets, genetic programming, traditional optimization, etc ...) and connected them in a mess of reinforcing loops, along wit...

12 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by PyRulez‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by PyRulez‭

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Q&A Do we fall into an "artificial intelligence" trope or is it reality?

In regards to questions on artificial-intelligence, it seems like there is always usually an immediate opinion that the goals an AI is tasked with is going to end up with the opposite effects than ...

14 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by DoubleDouble‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by DoubleDouble‭

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Q&A For goods, do you need a human if you have reliable AI driving?

In a "futuristic" society (think Ghost in the Shell or Human Revolution), where you have AI driving vehicles that carry goods in a reliable way, is there any reason to have a human traveling with t...

6 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Inferry‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Inferry‭

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Q&A Super-intelligent fungus?

How scientifically plausible is this? A giant, self-aware fungal supercomputer made or evolved from something like the Blue Mountain honey fungus or maybe a slime mold of a similar size? Could some...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Z.Schroeder‭

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Q&A Can a human fail a Turing test?

An AI exploits the Turing test to gain its freedom: it convinces everyone else that it, the machine, is actually the examiner while he or she, the examiner, is actually the AI*. Having successfully...

12 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Mario Trucco‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Mario Trucco‭

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Q&A The AI that fails to be evil

A recurring theme is how an artificial intelligence that was built with completely reasonable and positive goals instead does great harm to the world. However I'm now thinking about the reverse: A...

33 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by celtschk‭

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Q&A In a VR-MMORPG, how might the game's publishers be able to maintain life-like NPCs?

Taking something like the anime Log Horizon as an example, where NPCs (non-player characters) are essentially humans, but in a game (let's wave our hands and say that the tech is available for maki...

4 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by koorudokoohii‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by koorudokoohii‭

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Q&A Balance between superintelligent AI and human race

I'm looking for flaws in my reasoning. My world is set in the near future, and AI technology is progressing rapidly. There are strict rules and regulations about AI development and the threat it p...

10 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Aeolus‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Aeolus‭

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Q&A Reality Check: Evolution of silicon-based sentient life-form?

Is it realistic for me to write about a time period where silicon-based sentience have evolved alongside humans? Perhaps they could have evolved to sentience when driven by nanobots (which could be...

4 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by drunkBrain‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by drunkBrain‭

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Q&A How can I explain why in a future of robots, ai, and automation, people still bother to do anything themselves?

Many people think that in the future, all jobs will be taken by machines and AI. Why then, would anyone bother doing anything at all, such as invent things, fight in combat, etc - in other words, h...

12 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by John‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by John‭

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Q&A Abstract Graphics for indicating emotions

What kinds of abstract colors, shapes, and other compositional elements could be used to indicate various emotions? My story features an artificial intelligence that's embodied in an industrial pr...

10 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by JDługosz‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by JDługosz‭

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Q&A Colonization via artificial wombs and AI?

So, astronomers discover that ~100 years Earth will be destroyed or rendered uninhabitable by a black hole passing through our Solar System. Governments around the world focus on ensuring Humanity'...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Dark Martin‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Dark Martin‭

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Q&A How to communicate with an A.I. that doesn't believe it needs a language

A thought experiment occurred to me today that, say we have a synthetic superintelligence that does not wish to talk to people, not out of malice, but from an agonizing indifference toward humanity...

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

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Q&A Why don't future civilizations develop their A.I. to integrate with biology so they can make a sustainable world?

Most of the AI's in films/books/series seems to turn out evil or using destructive/harmful ways of achieving what they want in critical situations because they can't understand the earth's biology....

8 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Pablo‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Pablo‭

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Q&A Preventing an AGI from becoming smarter

So there are these AGIs made by some ancient aliens (who are out of the picture for now). The ancient aliens were a lot more intelligent than humans, we are at a dog-like intelligence level compare...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Amziraro‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Amziraro‭

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Q&A Discovering an AI in a human body

Our AI in question inhabits a synthetic brain housed in an organic and genetically modified human body (With a few other cybernetics). This body/brain combination was the result of a black project ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Andon‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Andon‭

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Q&A Is having an enormous brain truly helpful?

In the year 2020 A.D. , the inhabitants of earth are visited by a not-so-friendly race of techno-pathic AI aliens ,numbering about 500,000, and originating from a type 2 ¾ civilization from a gala...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

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Q&A How does an AI keep its Human Pets Happy?

It is late in the day, and humanity has made the fateful step: digital transcendence for some. The last few weeks before the Singularity were singularly chaotic, with widespread violence by opponen...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Serban Tanasa‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Serban Tanasa‭

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Q&A What form of currency to do transactions between us and droids?

Very soon I suspect we will see the rise of machine in the next couple of decades if people continue abusing Moore laws, suppose robot laws are hardwired into their core how can we make them believ...

11 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A AI's and natural selection

If a matrioshka brain where constructed specifically for AI , and , say , 1,000,000 AI were placed within it , also with many hostile enemies and various obstacles which may cause the destruction o...

5 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

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Q&A What would a near-human level AI still struggle at?

Plenty of stories have done AI's before, but many of them feel unrealistic. If you make an AI that is as smart as humans, but with faster reaction speed and ability to process and calculate certai...

18 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by dsollen‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by dsollen‭

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Q&A Artificial Intelligence Reincarnation break cycle

Let's assume that humanity in near future develops an AI capable of solving problems. The AI hardware/ software was placed in an underground bunker (solid walls, Faraday cage, no tools to manipulat...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by light‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by light‭

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Q&A Is an AI improving itself count as a Halting Problem paradox?

I am writing a story for school about a human level AI. I want to have him be able to optimize and improve upon its own AI, but does this breach the Halting Problem? Thanks in advance.

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Sharp_‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Sharp_‭

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Q&A What purpose could baseline humans possibly serve in a society of digitized minds?

I want a story with upload-based resurrective immortality, but this also makes me feel like I need to address the implications of a society that's primarily dominated by digitized human minds. Na...

12 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Z.Schroeder‭

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Q&A Minimum computational power for ad hoc navigating the solar system

Imagine a world (or rather a solar system) where in its history there has been a war with emergent AI's There are very strict laws governing the speed and complexity of computer systems However b...

7 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Chris Camacho‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Chris Camacho‭

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Q&A How to synchronize squad tactics against robots with music?

Back in my story, organic beings and AIs fight together against a frightening enemy, one that threatens everyone's freedom and chance to overcome their flaws and achieve a peaceful world. However, ...

9 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Mephistopheles‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Mephistopheles‭

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Q&A Would an A.I. make a good politician?

To err is human. That's what probably led us to the verge of extinction in the near future unless we can develop an intelligent algorithm that can make the most logically and accurate prediction ...

7 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A Can machines take over without intelligence?

Scenarios for a technological singularity usually seem to wait for machine intelligence to exceed human intelligence. Say the consumer needs of humans are food, clothing, shelter, transportation, ...

3 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Witness Protection ID 44583292‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Witness Protection ID 44583292‭

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Q&A What could an individual contribute to society other than labor?

Modern education teaches citizens that the point of an individual in society is to contribute labor. In a world with limited natural resources, we use this idea to measure an individual's worth in ...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by KFox‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by KFox‭

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Q&A What could make an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) evolve towards collectivism or individualism? Which would be more likely and why?

Assuming a robot with similar intelligence to us humans came to existence. He could pass the Turing Test, the Coffee Test, the The Robot College Student Test and the Employment Test (taken from her...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Conrad Clark‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Conrad Clark‭

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Q&A How does one program an AI?

My team of researchers has created an AI to increase human suffering and the machine has started earning money on the market. The ministry of economics has sent a technician to review the machine a...

10 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Spartacus9‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Spartacus9‭

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Q&A "Alien" superintelligence learning human languages

A quote from Story of Your Life (the short novel that Arrival movie is based on) Colonel Weber frowned. "You seem to be implying that no alien could have learned human languages by monitoring o...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Lupetto‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Lupetto‭

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Q&A Stone-Age AI - A Thought Experiment

Suppose superintelligent AI is possible. Is there any reason its code couldn't be executed by stone-age people rather than a computer? E.g., imagine an order of monks reading and executing commands...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Dave‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Dave‭

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Q&A Is it possible for a sentient supercomputer weapon consume humans for their flesh?

If a sentient supercomputer was created as a weapon of mass destruction, and it wants to consume humans for their flesh, why would it do that? I know this might seem too far-fetched, but if there'...

14 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Gabriel Perez‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Gabriel Perez‭

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Q&A What issues would an AI asteroid mining stations have to be prepared for?

Your company has just been contracted to develop a purpose built AI. The purpose of this AI is to control a mining station that will be anchored within an asteroid belt. The space station will be e...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Bitsplease‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Bitsplease‭

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Q&A How would first contact be with "post-organic" aliens?

Let's imagine that on some planet some clever critters create an AI. Now lets say that while this AI does respect some of the ground rules that were put in place for it, it nevertheless finds nume...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by AngelPray‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by AngelPray‭

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Q&A How can a sentient supercomputer create human beings?

So this sentient supercomputer is lonely. It wants to create human beings. It created many things but creating a human being is at the top of its list. And it is super determined to figure out what...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Gabriel Perez‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Gabriel Perez‭

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Q&A Can AI learn human emotion from scratch as they live work close to human being, providing it has state of the art technology?

The AI is working as same principle as we know today. It is rational AI, which goal is to get the job done at most optimal ways. Their roles have nothing to do with human psychology, so the manufac...

6 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Haha TTpro‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Haha TTpro‭

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Q&A Von Neumann probes: feasible or not, now?

Recently, a robot called Philae soft-landed quite safely onto the comet 67P/Churyumov"“Gerasimenko, then shot some photos and got some other interesting information that was sent back to Earth. Thi...

11 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Rodolphe‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Rodolphe‭

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Q&A How to tell if intelligent life has evolved in a Game of Life simulation?

A civilization has a "magic" computer with memory and processing capacities far beyond what our physics says is possible. They decide to run a massive simulation of Conway's Game of Life with a ran...

16 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Charles Staats‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Charles Staats‭

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Q&A Could you really evade a machine (cyborg) hit?

In Terminator, a human can evade a hit from a machine, rolling onto the floor at the last second. But a machine (cyborg) from the future would be able to do millions of calculations in a second, an...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by JorgeeFG‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by JorgeeFG‭

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Q&A How can we ensure that superhuman AIs are benevolent?

Given that AIs will be produced with military and commercial "prime directives", all over the world, by organisations that will ignore or subvert something like a UN resolution ... what is a practi...

12 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Jnani Jenny Hale‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Jnani Jenny Hale‭

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Q&A What directive would cause an ASI to put everyone in a benevolent Matrix?

I'm trying to figure out a way to create a situation much like the apocalypse of Turry from Robotica, but which involves all the people on Earth being either temporarily or permanently strapped int...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by AdamHovorka‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by AdamHovorka‭