My two great career wants. I just realized they are linked.

Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)
#1

I followed the career path of computer programming.

University killed my pasion for it and I got a bare pass (however top of the entire dept for the one bit I was interested in - programming) on and off since I’ve wished I’d done a course on psychology. You see I’m fascinated by how the mind works and how it sometimes doesn’t work in spectacular ways.

I just now realized my interest in computing may have been influenced by a semi-subconcious desire to work in a field which aims to implement the workings and quirks of the humam mind in an artificial form (computers)
To put it into one sentence. I want to be the person that figures out how to create artificial intelligence.

#2

How do we know you aren’t a Turing test just trying to fool us?

#3

Fooled me.

#4

Unfortunately, my career choice of caring for animals doesn’t go with my desire to go to culinary school. Well, it could but that’s not the kind of chef (or vet tech) that I want to be.

#5

Mmm… the most delicious trip to the vet ever. And also kind of horrifying. But delicious.

#6

Unless maybe you’re the guy who develops the Cow that actually WANTS to be eaten?

#7

That’s exactly why I chose the dual-degrees that I did (CS and philosophy). Now I’m a grad student working in A.I.; I’m continually amazed at both how much and, at the same time, how little we know about how the mind works.

#8

Great, he’s going to program Skynet…

#9

Too influenced by Asimov for that.

#10

The spelling errors.

#11

now that made me think of a question. Could you have a true artificial intelligence, if it had unbreakable parameters imposed on it’s behaviour? Is it any different to social conditioning of humans?

#12

Ah, but a truly intelligent AI would do that to deceive you and lull you into a false sense of security while it’s carrying out its nefarious plans.

#13

I’ve known people whose intelligence can only be called artificial :slight_smile: (superficial?)
As a future madman physicist bent on world domination, I would point out that the creation of AI naturally leads to mankind creating something with a) a will to survive and dominate and b) the skills to eventually do so.

This is bad for humanity, I tell ya. Trust me, I know.