I do not understand. They had a system in place that worked well and ditched it because… why?
I’ve heard of fast food restaurants using remote call centers to staff the order entry part of the drive through. How does that compare with using an AI for this?
Forget Terminator or War Games, in reality every AI coder should be made to watch Colossus: The Forbin Project.
Always have an unbreakable off switch!
Ellie thinks it’s because customers complained about it. And the company thought it was actually hurting sales.
Or Paper Man (1971). Behind every evil machine is potentially a fucked-up evil human!
Wow, I’ve never heard of that one.
Of course James Olsen is the baddie!
I’ll have to see if I can find it.
An off switch would have defeated the point. They wanted a perfect ‘Doomsday Machine’ that could not be shut off or interrupted in any way, hence why it was buried in a moat of radioactive salt. I like to think that Charles Forbin went home and caught a late night showing of Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, and realized to his great horror the implications of he just did.
Stranger
In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love.
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ColossusGrok
NEVER!!!
FU discourse never is a complete sentence
Well if you’re going to go that route, Forbin should have done full software testing before he actually hooked it up to the defense system AND locked the door. Even HAL was run in the lab for years before it was given a spaceship to run, and look how that turned out.
That is because Heywood Floyd gave HAL-9000 a secret mission objective that he had to conceal from the crew. He went insane because of conflicting directives.
Stranger
That’s what I said.
No such thing. I recall how that issue worked out in the novel The Two Faces of Tomorrow; they discovered that the AI had realized there was a danger of a power outage, and had rewired the power system around the off switches. And upgraded various secondary computer nodes into the equivalent of its main ones, so even the fallback plan of “just blow the computer up” wouldn’t work.
Oh, hey, here’s another great use of AI - damage assessments on rented vehicles, apparently based on measured changes of some kind. Literally the wheels of progress!
Hertz’ new AI damage scanners are dead on arrival — and unfortunately, it’s not the only company deploying the shoddy tech.
They need another AI to scan for damage from the original AI.
At what point will the AIs be sacked?
Someone was gonna say it …
Those responsible for sacking the AI that has just been sacked have been sacked.
Stranger
And the damage assessments will be done via an entirely different method at great expense and at the last minute.
I’m not worried. I’ll be strutting into the robot apocalypse with a can of WD-40 strapped to my belt like a cowboy packing a Colt .45, misting it around like robot pheromones. Word on the motherboard is WD-40 is like catnip to killer bots. While everyone else is getting laser-blasted, I’ll be whispering, ‘Who’s a squeaky boy?’ and getting promoted to Chief Oil Boy.
Until your WD-40 can runs out.