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WCDT Strips 3826-3830 (10-14 September 2018)
jwhouk:
What are you expecting this week?
(Thanks to Tova for the poll this week)
Shenanigans 25 (24.3%)
Friendship 17 (16.5%)
Personal development 16 (15.5%)
Anxiety 15 (14.6%)
Drama 8 (7.8%)
Sexy times 7 (6.8%)
Cereal 7 (6.8%)
Personal conflict 6 (5.8%)
I will describe below something that is so weirdly specific that I will look like a genius if something vaguely like it it happens 2 (1.9%)
Total Members Voted: 38
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 15 Sep 2018, 07:48 ---
--- Quote from: pallanox on 15 Sep 2018, 04:15 ---How old are the ai in terms of maturity? Mentally may might be very young and not aware of the full range of consequences
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As I recall, the AIs maturity is defined in terms other than their chronological age. When May was looking for a job, one of the application forms asked whether she could pass a Turing Test to a certain level; I suspect their maturity is defined this way as it measures how complex their intelligence algorithm has become.
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Well, that sounds rather logical though. I guess you could "train" any AI by appropriate software patches and data transfers within a reasonable amount of time, but the AI personality has to be right. You probably wouldn't want an overly sarcastic AI in customer service, but out back alone in the warehouse wouldn't matter much.
Is it cold in here?:
Jeph said once years ago that AIs could install patches to change their personalities. I don't know whether that's still canon. It raises the question of why Robot Jail exists if AIs could download impulse control and honesty. Last time this came up Neo-Ali pointed out the ethics minefield of personality modification.
Thinking about May some more.
--- Quote from: May ---that's all you are to them, an ex-con
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I'm on board with her complaining about people negating everything else about her personality and friendships and endeavors. The natural and/or just consequences of her actions don't include having everything except for her offense erased from everyone's consciousness. She's a person who attempted a serious crime but that should not be all she is to the people she interacts with. Matchmaker, jerk, clerk, fangirl, she is all of these things and is not defined by the worst thing she ever did.
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 15 Sep 2018, 13:18 ---Jeph said once years ago that AIs could install patches to change their personalities. I don't know whether that's still canon. It raises the question of why Robot Jail exists if AIs could download impulse control and honesty. Last time this came up Neo-Ali pointed out the ethics minefield of personality modification.
Thinking about May some more.
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Altering someone's personality against their will is highly unethical. Brainwashing is largely considered a major violation of a person's agency.
The person would have to want to do it. How many criminals would volunteer to have thier personalities rewritten?
Then there's the risks involved. What happens when the software patch is bugged or is infected with malware?
Tova:
“You've sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially acceptable acts, a little machine capable only of good. And I see that clearly - that business about marginal conditionings. Music and the sexual act, literature and art, all must be a source now not of pleasure but of pain.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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