| Sentience, Consciousness |
For the same class last semester, there was a unit about AI’s and sentience. What might sentient AI really desire? Will they want to enslave humanity or will they feel indifference like the omnipotent Cthullu? |
| Robots and the Post-human |
I did a project last semester where I wrote a short story exploring robot rights, ethics, and the 2 components to create a seemingly ‘self aware’ robot: the physical body and the ‘brain.’ The story explored using AI/robots as a ‘life extension’ tool and whether or not it maters if a robot or AI is truly sentient if it can spur true human emotion and belief. Further, where does the ‘human’ end and the ‘robot’ or ‘artificial intelligence’ end? Human’s are very easy to fool and have trouble thinking beyond our set of beliefs. If we create a system powerful enough, it’s likely to be able to fool us without us even knowing (or even caring). |
| Understanding alternate Intelligences |
I have been interested in / doing research about if / how AI / ML might be able to help ‘enhance’ child intelligences so that ‘adults’ may understand them better. The concept that ‘maybe we do not acknowledge alternate intelligences is that we are unable to communicate with them’ is very interesting to me. I know there are some things that children/babies can do better than / differently from us us (eg. Facial differentiation, learning new things). Understanding alternate intelligences will allow us to 1: apply different strategies to benefit ourselves 2: learn how to better ‘help’ other intelligences. Actually, it is really similar to ‘Understanding others helps us understand ourselves.” |