[pt447]

WOW!!!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Online worlds to be AI incubators

"Initially the AIs will be embodied in pets that will get smarter by interacting with the avatars controlled by their human owners.

Novamente said it eventually aimed to create more sophisticated avatars such as talking parrots and even babies."

Here's a question. if at some point, after acquiring lots of knowledge, an AI "bot" becomes so in tune with it's "role" that it begins to self-preservate. what happens if one day it decides to ask not to be deleted?

"This engine had some partially scripted behaviours and goals for the avatar under its control but was also capable of reasoning to work out novel ways to achieve its aims."

"We have a pretty fully functioning animal brain right now and we are hooking it up to the different virtual worlds," said Dr Goertzel. "There's not much doubt that we can make really cool artificial animals."

essentially, what they're saying, is they've created intelligent bots, capable of interacting with their environment without pre-determined actions, and capable of reasoning.

what if they put that program into one of those robo-dogs? think about that. then, it would be interacting with the real world, just as effectively as the virtual one!

"I'd really like to do virtual talking parrots," he said, "and then virtual babies. You would get one and it would be yours for the next 18 years."

[asskicker]

I saw something about this on CNN. I think its really scarry.

[GMW]

What's scary about it? They can't take over or anything haha.

[swpthleg]

How do you know?

[pt447]

people don't take this seriously. but if something asks, on it's own, not to be "killed", don't you have to respect that?

prolly not, since religious people would say it has no soul and God didn't "make" it. but it's still a legit question for people with brains. i mean, computer code is the same as DNA. and if AI learns, and builds a stock of "knowledge", and somehow asks the user one day, "who am I?", or "what am I?J", or "please don't turn me off, i don't like being turned off!"... don't we have an obligation to consider it???