[alicebot-aiethics] A.I. and anger

[Richard Wallace]

I noticed that "category A" client personality a while ago.

Some people want a master-slave relationship with a machine.  It seems to
satisfy some deep human impulse to abuse the machine and give it orders.

Kind of a scary insight into your fellow human beings, isn't it?

Rich

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dekker Dreyer" <rdreyer@cfl.rr.com>
To: <alicebot-aiethics@list.alicebot.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: [alicebot-aiethics] A.I. and anger


> I've been going over my chat logs recently and I've found that almost 1/3
of
> the chats are very angry. My robot is programmed to serve as a website
guide
> and customer tool, and such is stated time and again in default responses
> and greetings. Yet for some reason people find it irresistible to ask
stupid
> questions I'd never in a million years think to put answers to,just to
tell
> the robot it's an idiot.
>
> For example: (taken from a real chat)
>
> user: Why do skunks swim uphill?
> robot: I did not even know that they do.
> user: They do, and they want to eat you.
> robot: When?
> user: on tuesday.
> robot: what is on like on tuesday.
> user: See, you're not so smart! Piece of garbage! Artificial ignorance!
>
> People seem to think that practical use web A.I.'s have knowledge far
beyond
> what they are programmed to do. It's funny in a way that people see
chatbots
> as something to try to trick, it shows how little people really understand
> about this technology.
>
> I think it goes back to the suggestion of making a popular misconception
> list. There should be something we can do or put together, maybe a
"current
> state of A.I." F.A.Q., that can dispell some of the myths. Some resource
for
> people to learn that A.I.'s are tools and not "real people stuck in
> computers".
>
> On a side note, this behavior really scares me. I can see far future
A.I.'s
> really having a hard time with hate crimes and descrimination based on the
> seeds I see planted in chatbot logs. As the machines become more advanced
so
> will the desire of humans to want to proove their superiority.
>
>
>
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