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Team Aims To Create Pure Evil AI

Posted by samzenpus on from the playing-with-fire dept.

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.'"

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  1. At what point... by feldhaus · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:At what point... by Cryogenic+Specter · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:I foresee by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Funny

    I foresee you using "preview" next time.

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  3. Re:If you are reading this.... by MaerD · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. Re:I foresee by BarryJacobsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I foresee you using "preview" next time.

    imcorrect.

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  5. Little known fact about this... by thestudio_bob · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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