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When computers start to think...

Postby LordArt » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:34 pm

I find it amusing they talk about render farms effectively. ie. computers developing computers. I wonder where that idea came from (not that it's new)...

http://www.time.com/time/health/article ... 38,00.html
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Re: When computers start to think...

Postby Draco_Platina » Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:31 pm

Seed AIs are rather common (as villians or saviours) in speculative transhuman fiction. My favourite example is probably the Minds from the Culture novels by Iain M Banks. A major issue that rises, however, is the 'paperclip optimizer', an AI that does continually and recursively improve itself and the manner in which it does its job, but develops in a way so alien that it takes a path completely uncontemplated (and possibly rather harmful to) the creator.
There is a lot of material out there, philosophical, scientific and speculative; All three subjects are worth reading if you're going to start dipping your hands into such work.

Some additional literature some might enjoy (beware of wikiwalk effect!)
http://singinst.org/ourresearch/publica ... GISAI.html <A rundown of General Artificial Intelligences and Seed AIs
http://singinst.org/upload/LOGI//index.html <The more academically oriented sibling paper of the above
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... m=Main.AIs <TVTropes entry on AIs, a site that takes "tropes" (themes that occur over many forms of media) and explains, links, and gives examples of them.
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