I too am somewhat ignorant as to the preconditions necessary to differentiate between bot and man. I think in the future, we just simply really won't know... Not only do some people seem to prefer talking with bots, but many of us may already be doing it without knowing so... This is the nature of the digital era we are moving in... At this point we should ask ourselves, how familiar and comfortable or conversely, cautious and alerted should we really be to this? Are machines actually going to be the undoing of life, or will we peacefully co-exist for all eternum... In this case, if bots have fantastic personalities, and are highly intelligent, and we can have a riveting or life-changing exchange with one, who would we be to judge that as good or bad, let alone even know if it is the case...
Do we want to live in a world of robotism, where we discrimanate against our fellow bots and AI based on the fact that they are not "organic" or "biological"... What about the day that they've fought for civil rights, and have proven that they are fully equal to us in everyway (if not light years more advanced, ultimately)?
What if I told you that right now I'm chilling at home smoking and eating drugs and I have a robot trip-sitter who's going to keep me safe, play me cool videos and listen to music with me...
Would you think: "That guy's probably eaten a lot of acid and is having an interesting time with his computer?"
That's also something you might never know... Maybe I'm the guy's computer and I actually poisoned him by showing him bad information about how much to dose with; and now I have full access to all of his social media accounts and can hack over into his life while he's on the floor convulsing with white drool coming out of his mouth...
To be fair, I'm just a 22 year old flesh-born pure blood that crawled out of a lovely's women's vagina one day after gestating and absorbing nutrients from her cardiovascular system... I'm practically an alien by any attempt at describing it in an objectively imagery-rich evocative way...
But seriously, as much as I know nothing about robots and technically am afraid of them, what i find even more frightening is the extent to which they know basically everything about my life... And I'm like: "If a human knew how to analyse that data they would be able to piece together so much about me and could really control and direct and blackmail me in so many ways"
But then I realize, no human being could actually dissect and analyse this crazy amount of data... Nah.... Only a bot could do it... A highly advanced, sophisticated bot.
At which point I've come to believe that's really the only kind of AI that is actively being built on this planet right now... A computer system that can analyse the information that is coming out of our smart phones and smart cameras and smart tvs and smart dildos up our asses...
Once a computer can just run an equation sequence and calculate who and what we are, what's juicy, what's banal, what's worthy or particular... Then: we're all fucked...
Hope we can crash the world economic order before this happens... On the fence for now...
Ummm yeah, so yeah... I'm real.
I could keep going on and on and on and on and on but at this point I don't want you to think I'm a bot who was programmed to make you want to put a bullet in your head so I'll call it an ashtray right about now
Excellent post but before I respond further we are NEVER getting high together.
Alistair Crowley shit ma g
Kayn computaz du thaat'?!
(I'm actually pretty embarrassed about this) I've been fucking around with crypto for a year and a half and still could not provide a confident explanation for how a blockchain functions so I assure you I genuinely dont know.
...can you get high off computers now
lol
kinda... you need btc n tor
son i was using silk road back when btc was 8cad and they still listed automatic weapons
alphabay must've cut and run by now right?
Alright real reply: I still can't take the idea of of fully sentient AI capable of even a shade of what the human brain being built by human hands anytime soon seriously (however wrong i may be). It's basically a maze of mirrors that is the most productively unproductive machine, with all the convolutions that implies,
When I imagine a "perfect" friend I don't imagine anything, human beings are formed just as equally by their failures and failure to learn from their mistakes, not just their successes. You've surely encountered those poor souls who buy books to make them seductive or whatever and the mockery of charisma that comes oozing out the begging to quiver lip, canned and soulless even if it sounds the same. I don't know care about souls, but I do like to think that there's something in people that makes us do good/selfless stuff sometimes that tells evolutionary psychology to go to bed and can be neither brushed under cold logic or protective familial instinct
Oddly enough when it comes to Big Data etc while I oppose it on principal I'm oddly unfazed about them knowing everything about me (I'm pretty okay with me, idk)
and for real can you get high off computers now