tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post8640436105142911966..comments2024-03-27T01:28:28.346-07:00Comments on False Machine: Ideas for a "Superintelligence" TV show.pjamesstuarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-73609694241751734222018-08-15T05:27:36.060-07:002018-08-15T05:27:36.060-07:00I love stuff like this. Elements of Ghost in the ...I love stuff like this. Elements of Ghost in the Shell, Bladerunner, PKD style effects of advanced tech on society. Have you seen Black Mirror? It's fun, I would recommend it.Blackouthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01819672996667698419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-8620608650927119592017-01-19T07:40:07.956-08:002017-01-19T07:40:07.956-08:00http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38672837
... a...http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38672837<br /><br />... and I'm not even kidding. Lukahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16327405336110532788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-22725040939781376162017-01-10T08:13:24.337-08:002017-01-10T08:13:24.337-08:00The best rendition of superinteligence i've ev...The best rendition of superinteligence i've ever read was in the Sci-Fi book 'A Fire Upon the Deep'.<br /><br />Yes it's a bit space opera, but it gets the alienness of the entity very well.<br /><br />the book also happens to be one of the best sci fi novels ever written, with an ending better than the beginning...<br /><br />Check it out sometimeFanfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14047931982239997873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-73804057553191815122017-01-09T17:11:27.561-08:002017-01-09T17:11:27.561-08:00Reminds me of Bladerunner.
It's an interesti...Reminds me of Bladerunner. <br /><br />It's an interesting concept but I wonder how well it will translate to entertainment without gratuitous dumbing down. The complexity of some of these concepts e.g hyperintelligent, pure maths communicating quantum systems and how they would interact with one another, are such that we are entering into the realm of utter ignorance. To quote old Donny Rumsfeld "There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know." and I think in this field we are firmly in the latter department. Maybe an appropriate analogy is the engineering of a weaponised virus that begins replicating and mutating in completely unforeseen ways. Complexity increases exponentially, and the human response is just too slow...we quickly become an irrelevance and extinction becomes an inevitability. <br />Maybe that makes for good entertainment, but without delving into the much worn apocalyptic box I'm sceptical. <br />Prove me wrong, I'll tune in for sure :)Strigoihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08435153869659684590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-24615257941070309522017-01-08T14:30:10.287-08:002017-01-08T14:30:10.287-08:00I'm envisaging a boxed hyper-intelligence that...I'm envisaging a boxed hyper-intelligence that likes pretending to be Nick Bostrum just to mess with us, that the Agency had to keep going back to interview in order to get insights into other AI behaviours. What is pseudo-Bostrum's motivation for assisting? Certain privileges that hopefully won't allow it to escape...PTRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01804620638450848244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-10475413685876951972017-01-08T12:51:39.467-08:002017-01-08T12:51:39.467-08:00If you haven't read The Two Faces of Tomorrow,...If you haven't read The Two Faces of Tomorrow, by James Hogan, I recommend it. It's right along these lines, without being too "been done before", as computer-gains-sentience stories often end up.<br /><br />And I would totally watch this show.<br />subhumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11473278419449181642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-67234392177469642182017-01-08T10:32:53.703-08:002017-01-08T10:32:53.703-08:00Yeah totally. He can be an AI that thinks its a gu...Yeah totally. He can be an AI that thinks its a guy. Or just an emulation of the actual Nick Bostrum.pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-45982738798770263572017-01-08T06:02:39.773-08:002017-01-08T06:02:39.773-08:00You'll get Bostrum to do a cameo in this, righ...You'll get Bostrum to do a cameo in this, right?PTRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01804620638450848244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-19770557482498268692017-01-07T13:44:55.755-08:002017-01-07T13:44:55.755-08:00Another AI show worth checking out in "Humans...Another AI show worth checking out in "Humans". They solve the visual drama problem by giving human-looking bodies to all the AIs. Or, for that matter, Battlestar Galactica. Or Westworld. Each of those deal with some subset of the dramatic themes you've outlined here, and having regular opportunities for exploring the moral dimensions of having sex with robots keeps people watching.<br /><br />I think there could well be a market for this kind of show given the growing interest in AI stuff and the success of those three "robots are people too" shows, plus plenty of recent movies. <br /><br />I take it you're seeing this as primarily an episodic, monster of the week picaresque deal, at least to start out. That seems like a promising and well-tested way to launch, and it's a good way of dropping an audience into a new world and exploring the various dimensions and issues of that world before potentially launching into more long-form stuff after the first season.Picadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01244353406711565712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-1263520947443764892017-01-07T13:27:28.312-08:002017-01-07T13:27:28.312-08:00This is amazing. Now can you write a pilot script?...This is amazing. Now can you write a pilot script?Ben L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04568198881628052274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-18038652265034045092017-01-07T13:06:41.701-08:002017-01-07T13:06:41.701-08:00Excellent concepts! If I commissioned shows, I'...Excellent concepts! If I commissioned shows, I'd be all over this. Outstanding.Geisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18110240261095620924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-45094456795039454622017-01-07T12:48:46.666-08:002017-01-07T12:48:46.666-08:00I mention it in the post?I mention it in the post?pjamesstuarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13288777018721199748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4522018539311056682.post-46484322388506796402017-01-07T12:38:53.477-08:002017-01-07T12:38:53.477-08:00Have you seen the show Person of Interest? It does...Have you seen the show Person of Interest? It doesn't check every single one of these boxes, but it does get quite a few.Craddokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00521458937527350756noreply@blogger.com