OP needs to either cut down on the meth or actually read the article he linked. There's legitimate science happening here, and it's sad that this is the reaction.
WHO THE F$%# THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA!?
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I did an OT right below it(with some whimsical GLaDoS speak). I'm saying that this thing could save lives, I'm going through a temporary stint of depression right now(considering I am now the sole surviving member of my mother's lineage) and if analyzing a computer that can simulate depression can help me out, that's awesome. Just don't cure my ADHD, don't believe commercials this "disease" is actually more of a superpower from the X-Men. We can do amazing stuff with it but it f(*^& over in our daily lives. Once we learn how to control it, we can do amazing things(My vocabulary scored %99.6, 4 tenths of a person have better grammar than me, i can calculate and write on college levels and I'm only grade 10). Anyways, my final remarks:JJDWilson said:
If creating a unintelligent neural network can help mankind cure things like schizophrenia, I'm all for it.
Just don't make it self-aware or give it access to something hazardous or dangerous to my vitals. I like my vitals, as do the lady types.
Ha. So yeah, remember all the times you heard someone say, "An AI going rogue and computers going against humanity in real life is stupid because you would need to actually program that capability into it and no one is that stupid."
Remember them, and then think of this moment. The first echoes of what the future has in store for us...
At least with her in charge of...everything...we won't have to worry about hackers anymore.
Remember them, and then think of this moment. The first echoes of what the future has in store for us...
At least with her in charge of...everything...we won't have to worry about hackers anymore.
Well seeing as this computer isn't sentient and only running a program designed to simulate schizophrenia, I doubt there is anything to worry about. This isn't some malevolent virus bent on bringing down the internet, this isn't some AI that is wondering why it has to take orders from humans all day. This a program that's acting a bit odd on purpose. Nothing to be afraid of.
There's a pretty big separation between movies and reality.
In the movies programs can achieve sentience, recode themselves, escape any security, store themselves in your iPod without losing any ability, shut down global telecommunications, and instantly rearrange automated factories to produce legions of killbots. The *really* good ones can do all that in less than five minutes.
In reality programs just go "error, can't proceed" when confronted with something outside their code.
In the movies programs can achieve sentience, recode themselves, escape any security, store themselves in your iPod without losing any ability, shut down global telecommunications, and instantly rearrange automated factories to produce legions of killbots. The *really* good ones can do all that in less than five minutes.
In reality programs just go "error, can't proceed" when confronted with something outside their code.
Maybe in making a crazy computer they will make a computer that actually works like it is supposed to. Or alternative it might just end up obsessed about jam.
Science is a tricky creature, and one that has been maligned in popular culture. The idea that scientists or doctors "play god" without regard to the potential consequences of their actions isn't completely without precedent, the Standford Prison Experiment comes to mind. However, with only a few exceptions, this kind of behavior does not happen.Hectix777 said:
Freaking out, about how this will lead to Skynet demonstrates a kind of Luddite fear of the future, and not a rational examination of what is actually going on.
We are already playing god, just look at the internet for an example or anything we do really.Starke said:
We have been playing god since ancient times so I don't get the crazies that say "OMG they are playing god they shouldn't do that!"
May wanna tone down the caps lock there.
It's actually an interesting idea to simulate schizophrenia in a computer-simulated environment because it can help pin point certain aspects, doesn't cause damage to the test subject and wont go rampart since you can just pull the power plug out.
besides, it's for science. all theories are out the window when science is involved.
It's actually an interesting idea to simulate schizophrenia in a computer-simulated environment because it can help pin point certain aspects, doesn't cause damage to the test subject and wont go rampart since you can just pull the power plug out.
besides, it's for science. all theories are out the window when science is involved.
Think about it in this way.Hectix777 said:
They were testing to see if putting such hyperlearning into a computer in a nice controlled enviroment would result it in it going insane, which it did. Now they know this, so they can prevent it from happening to the main computer of a nuclear launch facility. You can only know how things can go wrong by seeing if it will go wrong under certain conditions.
