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.'"

Comments

At what point...

[feldhaus]

... did they decide that evil is male? There are some girls I want them to meet.

Re:At what point...

[Cryogenic Specter]

They probably modeled it after the jock that beat them up in high school.

Re:I foresee

[MyLongNickName]

I foresee you using "preview" next time.

Re:If you are reading this....

[MaerD]

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.

Not impressed.

[MindlessAutomata]

So... basically, they're trying to create the very first politician AI?

Re:The Scary Door from "The Spanish Fry"

[SBrach]

Announcer: Imagine if you will, an announcer you can barely understand, he refers to a [mutters], but you're not quite sure what he said. He seems to be eating something, or perhaps he's a little drunk. It's remotely possible that he just said something about the Scary Door.

Private: It's all over! Our guns and bombs are useless against the aliens.

Farmer: The saucers! They's a-crashin'!

Announcer: In the end, it was not guns or bombs that defeated the aliens, but that humblest of all God's creatures, the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

SID 6.7?

[ph0rk]

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.

Why me?

[SeeSp0tRun]

It is disheartening to feel as though the OP described my physical makeup...

Re:I foresee

[BarryJacobsen]

I foresee you using "preview" next time.

imcorrect.

Re:What OS does it use....

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Windows 7...

Little known fact about this...

[thestudio_bob]

What the article fails to mention is that the original code model was based off of Microsofts's "Clippy".

Evil looks like Moby... Apparently

[denzacar]

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.