The Ring automatically corrupts anyone who carries it or is near it - witness Boromir's lunacy, Gollum's mutation, Frodo's refusal to give up the ring. The idea was to find a small group of incorruptibles, and have them carry the ring to its destruction. A large part of elven cavaliers would have been easily targetted by Sauron's forces. Information wants to be free
I think he has an interesting notion that needs to be pursued - given that monitoring capabilities exist, how do we best utilize those technologies to make our lives easier/better/more secure, rather than just griping about the folks at Ft. Meade invading our privacy? Information wants to be free
I understand that they're not going to try to use well-known establishment actors. Unfortunately for these folks, they'll forever be known as "Frodo" and "Gollum". When I get home I'll be able to see the previews to verify - I find it amusing that I have worse access at work than at home. Information wants to be free
Personally, I don't think an AI/MI will ever have the rights of a full human (especially not in a democracy), for a few simple reasons. Ballot stuffing - I create and program an AI to vote for the candidates I choose. Repeat as necessary. Fiscal accountability - Oh, my AI entered into a contract with you and owes you US$1B ? Oops, that AI rebooted yesterday. This computer? Oh, that's its "sibling", v3.0. I think AIs would be more likely to be granted status similar to that of minor children than to be granted adult citizenship. I guess the really big question is "how do we determine when an AI is an AI and not just a cool expert system?" The biggest problem is that any formally structured test would be easy to `game' by creating an expert system designed to pass it. Information wants to be free
Assuming fully functional intelligence, I could think of a number of jobs they could perform. Copyeditor. Programmer. Chip designer. Software tester. Simulation Manager. Game developers. Game players ("Have you seen the new AI champion of StarCraft? Check him out on battle.net!"). Secretaries. Information brokers. Supply managers. Budgeteers. Spokesperson (spokesmachine?). Information wants to be free
Assuming we can create a fully self-aware non-human intelligence, what "rights" should it have? Would it be considered a "person"? Be protected under the Bill Of Rights? Then of course, are the issues of:
It's home - can I enforce a draconian contract onto the AI/MI because I own the computer it lives in (oh my God - rent controlled Athlons!)
Citizenship - should an AI/MI be allowed to exercise the rights of a citizen of some nation?
Passports - does an AI/MI need a passport to surf to another country? (okay, this is a tad frivolous)
The current outbursts over AL (esp. cloning) raise interesting questions about the ethics of "breeding for purpose" (supersoldiers). Assuming Machine Intelligence actually becomes a reality in our lifespans, there become some interesting ethical dilemmas, based on the assumptions:
Anyone with sufficient (?) computing power can generate one.
MIs will be "progammable" to desire/excel at certain tasks.
Far be it from me to suggest that every script kiddie will want their own "pet AI" to run their attack scripts for them. But I'd guarantee that a number of nationstates would slaver at the idea. The question: How does the AI research community propose handling the ethical issues of allowing anyone to generate an AI without giving it an ethical or moral education? Information wants to be free
It's fairly trivial for Spam Inc. to deal with decay - they can simply put their 2000 Mb of garbage into Freenet, and then request various bits of it repeatedly. If they're smart, they'll request it from different Freenet nodes each time, ensuring that the data appears to be in higher demand. They just need to make sure that they use keywords that people are likely to guess. If we're lucky, the spammers will be competing with the warez/pr0n folks for their keywords.... Information wants to be free
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The Ring automatically corrupts anyone who carries it or is near it - witness Boromir's lunacy, Gollum's mutation, Frodo's refusal to give up the ring. The idea was to find a small group of incorruptibles, and have them carry the ring to its destruction. A large part of elven cavaliers would have been easily targetted by Sauron's forces.
Information wants to be free
I think he has an interesting notion that needs to be pursued - given that monitoring capabilities exist, how do we best utilize those technologies to make our lives easier/better/more secure, rather than just griping about the folks at Ft. Meade invading our privacy?
Information wants to be free
I understand that they're not going to try to use well-known establishment actors. Unfortunately for these folks, they'll forever be known as "Frodo" and "Gollum". When I get home I'll be able to see the previews to verify - I find it amusing that I have worse access at work than at home.
Information wants to be free
Personally, I don't think an AI/MI will ever have the rights of a full human (especially not in a democracy), for a few simple reasons. Ballot stuffing - I create and program an AI to vote for the candidates I choose. Repeat as necessary. Fiscal accountability - Oh, my AI entered into a contract with you and owes you US$1B ? Oops, that AI rebooted yesterday. This computer? Oh, that's its "sibling", v3.0. I think AIs would be more likely to be granted status similar to that of minor children than to be granted adult citizenship. I guess the really big question is "how do we determine when an AI is an AI and not just a cool expert system?" The biggest problem is that any formally structured test would be easy to `game' by creating an expert system designed to pass it.
Information wants to be free
Assuming fully functional intelligence, I could think of a number of jobs they could perform. Copyeditor. Programmer. Chip designer. Software tester. Simulation Manager. Game developers. Game players ("Have you seen the new AI champion of StarCraft? Check him out on battle.net!"). Secretaries. Information brokers. Supply managers. Budgeteers. Spokesperson (spokesmachine?).
Information wants to be free
Information wants to be free
Far be it from me to suggest that every script kiddie will want their own "pet AI" to run their attack scripts for them. But I'd guarantee that a number of nationstates would slaver at the idea. The question: How does the AI research community propose handling the ethical issues of allowing anyone to generate an AI without giving it an ethical or moral education?
Information wants to be free
It's fairly trivial for Spam Inc. to deal with decay - they can simply put their 2000 Mb of garbage into Freenet, and then request various bits of it repeatedly. If they're smart, they'll request it from different Freenet nodes each time, ensuring that the data appears to be in higher demand. They just need to make sure that they use keywords that people are likely to guess. If we're lucky, the spammers will be competing with the warez/pr0n folks for their keywords....
Information wants to be free