[alicebot-aiethics] A.I. and anger

[Richard Wallace]

"Whenever one of these machines is asked the appropriate critical question,
and gives a definite answer, we know that this answer must be wrong, and
this gives us a certain feeling of superiority. Is this feeling illusory? It
is no doubt quite genuine, but I do not think too much importance should be
attached to it. We too often give wrong answers to questions ourselves to be
justified in being very pleased at such evidence of fallibility on the part
of the machines. Further, our superiority can only be felt on such an
occasion in relation to the one machine over which we have scored our petty
triumph. There would be no question of triumphing simultaneously over all
machines. In short, then, there might be men cleverer than any given
machine, but then again there might be other machines cleverer again, and so
on."  --- from A. M. Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robby Garner" <meo1@bellsouth.net>
To: <alicebot-aiethics@list.alicebot.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [alicebot-aiethics] A.I. and anger


> > 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.
>
> Isaac Asimov predicted this. Check out CAVES OF STEEL, and some of his
other
> robot novels. They foreshadow the kind of resentment and prejudice that
> people feel against machines. If R2D2 existed today, it would be treated
> like a public men's room, or worse.  The mobile bots of the future better
be
> built of tough stuff.
>
> Robby.
>
>
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