The Death of a Sentient Machine...

[ZEE]

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[Koyaanisqatsi]

When an AI I helped write committed suicide, we didn't restore it. Thought it went against the idea of the project.

Of course, that was far, far from sentience. It was far from good AI, for that matter.

[axi]

A hardware failure, or a software failure?

[ZEE]

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[DRoseDARs]

Decompile their programs so they can't come back as artificial zombies...



...or the second coming of Christ.

[ZEE]

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[DRoseDARs]

Burn them for being witches, of course!

[ZEE]

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[DRoseDARs]

We're doomed, but not before we take those b*tches out with us...

[axi]

Of course you assume that the first sentient machine to die will have a high level (i.e. equivalent to human) sentience. But I guess there is nothing to exclude that it would be a less evolved sentience, f.e. that of a domestic animal, a dog or a cat.

I guess that in that case, the first death of a sentient A.I. gill go unnoticed.

[ZEE]

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[DRoseDARs]

Mass deportation/exile from Earth: Don't let the door hit your metal asses on the way out.

[ZEE]

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[DRoseDARs]

I just don't see why it is at all a wise idea to create artificial intelligences that are on the order of being near our own level. The two problems that scream out at me are 1) Although we created them, they are still sentient beings and we'd be enslaving them, forcing them to fight back for their freedom - nevermind the immorality of slavery - and 2) even if we set them free without "bloodshed" (or even with it), what the Hell is there to prevent them from taking after their creators and attacking us afterwards anyway, either for political or religious reasons, just as Humans have themselves done for millenia?

[ZEE]

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