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WCDT 14-18 January 2019 (3916-3920)
St.Clair:
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--- Quote from: St.Clair on 15 Jan 2019, 01:32 ---I've mentioned before, I think, the strange sense of ... let's go with "pride" that I had watching the third Matrix movie, where the Voice of the Machines displays such advanced and outright illogical behaviors as angry denial (raging at Neo that they don't need his help, or anyone's). A machine capable of lying to itself (and others), for no good reason, just ego. Something that we humans had a hand (at least near the start) in creating, that's come so far from those simple, deterministic beginnings that it's just as complicated and sometimes fucked up as we are. It's amazing - like watching one's offspring perform some feat of physical or mental achievement.
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You know, I never thought about it that way before, but you're absolutely right, that is amazing progress in AI.
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... said the human right before its creation plonked interface-needles into its body & wiped their organic brains.
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As another character of mine once said, regarding the new-BSG Cylons:
"We made them just as smart as us, and almost* as vicious. And then we were so surprised when they turned on us."
* important qualifier there, IMO, since humans set such a high bar in that area.
BenRG:
I think that you could summarise today's strip as 'Melon is unintentionally sweet and funny'. I think that Roko really did need this reminder that, as screwed up her life is getting, at least all the things around her are still pretty much as they've always been; especially Melon.
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--- Quote from: rtmq0227 on 15 Jan 2019, 14:45 ---On a different topic, this Chekhov's Gun finally went off: https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1001
I know it's a little late to the party, but I've been browsing through old strips and this one came around./quote]
Lemon counsels nuclear reactors, not weapons. I bet she couldn't handle nuclear weapons, imagine living your whole life knowing your only purpose is to satisfy the whim of some dumb politician and eventually trigger WW3 and the end of the world as we know it
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I suspect that intelligent weapons are generally a bad idea. As the 1980s Zoids comic in the UK pointed out, the only way to stop an AI-controlled war machine from going loopy is to give it the personality of a homicidal psychotic and that probably doesn't make things any better.
Or, of course, you can do what the US military did with Bubbles and put her with people from the start so that she develops bonds with others and thus has something to fight for, something to live for and, if necessary, something to die for.
Tova:
Would you like a nice game of chess?
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 15 Jan 2019, 23:20 ---I suspect that intelligent weapons are generally a bad idea.
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Depends on the degree. The one I developed using genetic algorithms over 20 years ago had about the same smarts as a cockroach or spiny lobster.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: zisraelsen on 15 Jan 2019, 21:40 ---In which Melon, seemingly out of left field, is the Best Possible Friend.
I really like this strip. It reminds me of the one where Emily shares some candor with clinton. a recurring message in QC seems to be that eccentricity doesn't preclude kindness or intelligence or any other trait, really.
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Again, she's "stupid to the point of holiness," truly a sacred fool.
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