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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. Pure Evil? Check out latest contract killing. by reporter · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    If the researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute want to create an artifical intelligence (AI) that exhibits pure evil, then they should first read the article just published by "The Economist". With the tacit approval of Vladimir Putin, the de-facto dictator of Russia, killers with connections to the Kremlin-backed government of Chechnya murdered the couple who were running a charity helping innocent children who had been emotionally and physically traumatized by war. This is couple is Zarema Sadulayeva and Alik Djabrailov. They were not political. They wanted only to help innocent children maimed by war.

    The cold-blooded killers of this couple locked their bullet-riddled bodies in the trunk of a car.

    If that murder is not pure evil, then what is pure evil?

    The researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute need only to interview Putin and to download his thoughts into their AI computer. It will instantly exhibit pure evil.

    Where is James Bond when you need him? A problem in the Kremlin needs to be fixed. Pronto.