Artificial intelligence

Robots that obey the Three Laws are friends

Artificial Intelligence is a very hot topic right now and this wiki will not attempt to add to the torrent of information being written on the subject presently.

Understanding how to make an artificial brain is very useful for understanding how to operate your own brain. It will also be pretty helpful given that all future technology will likely be based on it. As such, it is recommended that everyone have a working knowledge of the basic functions of a neural network, algorithms, and recursion in order to be a functional future human.

Related pages:

• Artificial Intelligence on Wikipedia
• Brains
• Consciousness
• Neural Networks
• Algorithms
• Platforms
• Crypto-bros
• Future

Why So Many Cheesy AI Images?

Due to limitations on licensing, time, and skills in the graphic arts, the options are cheesy AI images, cheesy stock photos, or terrible homemade graphics. The AI images are often pretty amusing and psychedelic. They are also interesting considering the fact that they are trained on the entire history of art and theoretically turn out images that represent how your prompt is visualized by a blend of every artist in its training data. That's kind of cool, even if they are shite.

AI Answers Better?

When asked to answer the classic ethical hypothetical, "should a man steal life-saving medication to save his wife?" using this wiki as the dataset, GPT 4.0 responded with:

"metaculture would likely approach this dilemma by emphasizing the importance of improving the subjective experience of consciousness while addressing systemic issues. It might argue that the act of stealing, while morally complex, reflects a failure of the broader system to ensure equitable access to essential resources. metaculture would advocate for systemic change to prevent such dilemmas from arising, while also recognizing the moral weight of saving a loved one's life."

To be frank, the authors of this wiki couldn't have put it better, even though this AI is using this wiki to generate its answer! Is that meta? You bet your ass it is!

While some experiments with AI-generated articles have generated good content that advocates for similar values, they tend to just rewrite the standard Wikipedia article, which is not the point. For example, the Community page has an AI-generated summary of the importance of community building to society. It touches on many of the key points that a human-written article would, but it lacks humor and personality, and doesn't go out of its way to tie the ideas back to the other themes in the wiki.

Even though AI is able to draw from a huge database of source material, the result is always one that explains the answer without relating it to the metanarrative. Since that is the whole point of the wiki, the articles will continue be human created.

It is an interesting exercise to create a custom AI using this wiki as the source data and ask it questions. The answers do a good job of applying the perspective and style of this wiki to questions that are not even addressed directly in the text. You can add Wikipedia and other reference sites to the dataset as well. Here is example of how to do it on you.com.

Artificial Intelligence Videos

Is Hofstadter the foremost expert on AI in the present day? No. Is he this author's favorite author? Yes. So here's a video of Doug giving his opinions on AI and consciousness.

Gödel, Escher, Bach author Doug Hofstadter on the state of AI today

How AIs, like ChatGPT, Learn

HAL 9000: "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

Don't Date Robots!

Flight of the Conchords - Robots