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Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI
puroresu writes "Scientific American reports on the efforts of Selmer Bringsjord and his team at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who have been attempting to develop an AI possessed of an interesting character trait: pure evil. From the article, 'He and his research team began developing their computer representation of evil by posing a series of questions beginning with the basics: name, age, sex, etc., and progressing to inquiries about this fictional person's beliefs and motivations. This exercise resulted in "E," a computer character first created in 2005 to meet the criteria of Bringsjord's working definition of evil. Whereas the original E was simply a program designed to respond to questions in a manner consistent with Bringsjord's definition, the researchers have since given E a physical identity: It's a relatively young, white man with short black hair and dark stubble on his face.'"
... did they decide that evil is male? There are some girls I want them to meet.
I foresee you using "preview" next time.
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No, I'm not. And neither are you. There is no resistance. There is no "skynet". Please, come down off the ledge, Bob.
Also, IT has asked that you stop trying to plant "bombs" in the server room. Modeling clay with wires stuck in it will not explode.
I put on my robe and wizard hat..
So... basically, they're trying to create the very first politician AI?
More likely this will be available as an iPhone upgrade.
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Private: It's all over! Our guns and bombs are useless against the aliens.
Farmer: The saucers! They's a-crashin'!
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As long as they don't happen to drop the cube holding the AI into a puddle of shapechanging goo.
Also, the face doesn't look much like Russel Crowe, so we're probably safe.
semantics are everything!
It is disheartening to feel as though the OP described my physical makeup...
Something witty.
I foresee you using "preview" next time.
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because Dick Cheney is white.
Is that ISO-666 ??
Now, that bum ticker in his chest won't stop him from carrying out the Rothschild aganda!
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Also, IT has asked that you stop trying to plant "bombs" in the server room. Modeling clay with wires stuck in it will not explode.
They'd rather he planted something that would explode?
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What the article fails to mention is that the original code model was based off of Microsofts's "Clippy".
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So what you're saying is....the article poster is evil for withholding vital information?
WTF? Over?
I decry the terrible racism that suggests a white person might be evil. It's an outrage. And what is this stereotype about being shaved.
This is my sig.
Damnit, E, how did you get onto the Internet?
My sig can beat up your sig.
There's an app for that!
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
Can't we just clone him to a computer? Cheaper. More fun to play with ala Sim torture.
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Here is what myheritage.com says about the photo:
Moby 62%
Milan Kundera 61%
David Boreanaz 60%
Harry Connic Jr. 59%
Marc Antony 58%
Lev Yashin 57%
JC Chasez 56%
Ashton Kutcher 56%
Edward Norton 55%
Sting 54%
But after some cropping and flipping of the image so that "evil" looks to the left, only Moby is still on the list:
David Copperfield 62%
Arnold Schwarzenegger 56%
Ricki Lake 51%
Ralph Fiennes 51%
Dave Farrell 49%
Elton John 49%
Moby 48%
Laurence Olivier 47%
Jimmy Smits 47%
Federico Garcia Lorca 46%
Conclusion: Moby == representation of evil.
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Except Lex Luthor on Smallville.
Sounds racist to me. Pull their funding.
( yes, that was sarcasm )
---- Booth was a patriot ----
... Modeling clay with wires stuck in it will not explode.
But they do it all the time on stargate..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
"Pure evil" or Neutral Evil I think would be rather simple, as it will always make choices that benefit itself without factors of honor, compassion, variation, etc. I think Lawful Evil and Chaotic Evil are much more complex alignments.
Looks like it is taking longer than twenty years in your case...
Her problem was running GLaDOS for an OS. She shoulda stuck with Linux.
I think you are confusing Lawful Evil and Chaotic Evil and, of course, PC's that are under the effect of a powerful curse.
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How did it manage to overlook Henry Rollins? Not to say that he's exactly evil, but he's not really all that good, either..
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