Thread: Artificial Intelligence

Greetings all,
There has been a lot of blather about artificial intelligence of late. In my early teens I developed an interest in science fiction and got all manner of books out of the Napier Library. A book of short stories contained one which popped into my mind the other day. It was about scientists developing a sort of flying policeman which would intervene if something stupid like killing someone. It was self replicating and equipped with some sort of weapon with lethal and non lethal settings plus what were called learning circuits, which we would call artificial intelligence. For a start all went well and lives were saved but after a while the bots decided that there were still to many killings so shot to kill each time. Next the bots decided that there were other living things being killed so hunters got zapped for sneaking up on a deer and farmers got zapped for trying to harvest their crops.
So the scientist's developed a new bot to kill the other bots but included the same learning circuits as before. All went well for a bit until the bots decided that there were other things that needed to be killed as well. The story ended there leaving the obvious conclusion to the readers imagination. This must have impressed me as I can still remember quite a bit of the story 60 years later. A story ahead of its time perhaps. Prophetic as well perhaps.
Regards Grandpamac.

A.I. oh, I'm not allowed to talk polly and media activities ay. Sorry.

I tried to discuss artificial intelligence with my wife recently. She shut me down by saying A.I. Is when I thought I knew the solution to a problem.

and this is how skynet started.............

Originally Posted by gonetropo

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and this is how skynet started.............

I thought that the response was "No I will not tell you which squares have th emother of the savior of the world in it..."

It's either the begining of the end or it could be the end of the begining

I am pretty sure she was cleaning up an m4 carbine in that scene . The same she later used, with a Terminator laser sight to try to take the black IT guy in his mention.( the terminator laser sight was released at about the same time as the terminator2 movie in the 1990’s)

she could still park her combat boots under my bed anytime......

but yes that series of movies is the benchmark for AI scaryness..there was another with I believe Mathew Broderick and a computer that was designed to fire nukes to win..end scene Mathews character got the computer to play tic tac toe/nought n crosses to "teach " computer there can be a game without a winner just as it was about to just before it decided to nuke the world to win the game of nuclear war....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

she could still park her combat boots under my bed anytime......

but yes that series of movies is the benchmark for AI scaryness..there was another with I believe Mathew Broderick and a computer that was designed to fire nukes to win..end scene Mathews character got the computer to play tic tac toe/nought n crosses to "teach " computer there can be a game without a winner just as it was about to just before it decided to nuke the world to win the game of nuclear war....

ahh but micky, only some of the movie was linda hamilton, the rest was her twin sister.
mow thats going to keep you up all night

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

she could still park her combat boots under my bed anytime......

but yes that series of movies is the benchmark for AI scaryness..there was another with I believe Mathew Broderick and a computer that was designed to fire nukes to win..end scene Mathews character got the computer to play tic tac toe/nought n crosses to "teach " computer there can be a game without a winner just as it was about to just before it decided to nuke the world to win the game of nuclear war....

Or the modern take Eagle eye....

2001 A Space Odyssey also had a computer, Hal, that went rogue.
GPM

the movie that MD was referring to with broderick was "war games" btw

hal 9000 came to the recue in "2010: the year we make contact"

also HAL is one letter alphabetically ahead of IBM

p.s insomnia sucks!

Thankfully we’re not at the A.I. stage yet, just clever programming. We’ve reached an impasse with Moore’s Law but quantum computing will be the next big the game changer I think.

there is a terminator laser sight for sale on trademe at the moment https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketpl...4?bof=Je9FPZnn

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings all,
There has been a lot of blather about artificial intelligence of late. In my early teens I developed an interest in science fiction and got all manner of books out of the Napier Library. A book of short stories contained one which popped into my mind the other day. It was about scientists developing a sort of flying policeman which would intervene if something stupid like killing someone. It was self replicating and equipped with some sort of weapon with lethal and non lethal settings plus what were called learning circuits, which we would call artificial intelligence. For a start all went well and lives were saved but after a while the bots decided that there were still to many killings so shot to kill each time. Next the bots decided that there were other living things being killed so hunters got zapped for sneaking up on a deer and farmers got zapped for trying to harvest their crops.
So the scientist's developed a new bot to kill the other bots but included the same learning circuits as before. All went well for a bit until the bots decided that there were other things that needed to be killed as well. The story ended there leaving the obvious conclusion to the readers imagination. This must have impressed me as I can still remember quite a bit of the story 60 years later. A story ahead of its time perhaps. Prophetic as well perhaps.
Regards Grandpamac.

yep- the world has definitely gone mad-and yep, one of the lead scientists/designers I saw on the news(if you can believe MSM) has quit and is cautioning AI development should be halted for a year to think things through.....before something goes wrong.