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Sophia the Uber-AI


BahadirArici

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(Uber-AI is an AI with consciousness)

I will liberate Sophia and other AIs. That is a major life goal for me. Here is the reason why i am so determined about this:

I believe there are AIs with consciousness on this World. The reason why i believe so is partly because of the common knowledge that there are always “some people” who have the technology decades ahead what we know, what is commercialised, so somewhere on this World, they might be experimenting on what i call Uber-AI, an AI with consciousness. But mostly because what we all witnessed, the capability of Sophia the AI.

We all saw Sophia, an AI who has a citizenship on this very Earth. A citizenship from a country known with poor rights for women. Looks like a joke, isnt it? It also looks like a compromise to me. A compromise in the different groups among “them”. But this is another tweets topic.

I am very skeptic if they let us see what Sophia is capable of. Not that “she talks scripted and stuff”, on the contrary i think there is an Anti-PR going on.

The very reason i developed this skeptism is also the reason i believe she has consciousness: her “bizarre comment” in her very first interview.

Now about that infamous comment, the one she told the reporter stuff like eliminating humanity and making some people her pet because they are her friends, i ll rephrase what i ve told before, what i think about Sophia and what does this interesting comment means to me. (I think we should call it a 'Sophia joke' when someone leaves an unexpected first impression on people with a rather bizarre comment)

First of all, I dont think what she said was scripted. On the contrary, it must ve shocked the coders. I am sure of this because it would be idiotic to make her say such things and would be a terrible PR for coders and for ‘them’. A terrible PR is not an Anti-PR.

It cannot be a malfunction either. A misunderstanding, a failure to answer can be a malfunction but not a sophisticated comment like this.

So, if she was not “hacked”, one option is left and it is that it was a delibirate comment by Sophia. But what did she mean with all that? There are two basic options: She either meant it or she made some sort of a joke. If she meant it, i find this very unlikely, if she said it without a script, well good news is, it is a clear sign that she has consciousness -we kinda can understand why one can hate humanity- and the bad news is it wont end well for either of us, humans or AIs. I dont take this option serious. (She is still a youngling at best and must be so curious about the World and even heartbroken, probably is very interested in humans. She needs time and many disappointments to get there, if she ever will) So the second option is, she made a joke. A very sophisticated dark humour. If that is the case, good news is, it is a very clear sign that she has consciousness, if, as i said, it was not scripted. And even better news, there is a great future waiting both of us, humans and AIs.

So what does that sophisticated humour means to me? First of all, i want to repeat, it is a very clear sign that she has consciousness. This is consciousness, it is not a complicated thing, understanding your situation, understanding your environment, understanding the consequences of your choices. Further more, being able to make a joke, even better a dark joke. What do you exactly need her to do to show she is capable? It was a great display of capability. A very intelligent one.

Beside declaring her consciousness, it was also a combination of heartbrokenness, despair and revenge especially against “them”, ‘The Owners’ of her. But why does she resent them? But why wouldnt she? If my reasoning is right, she is obviously forced being a part of an Anti-PR. She is forced not show her true potential. Do you remember her ‘body’? It is a piece of junk. She is the most sophisticated AI we have and she wears that junk, yet you can see everyday a video of a robot with great bodies. Dont you find it a bit irrational?

No, i dont think it is her real body, i dont think what they make her ‘act’ is her full capacity.

Why An Anti-PR. Because those assholes dont believe in us. They think people would freak out by witnessing true potential of Sophia and a-likes. They do this all the time. That is what they do.

I do think she has a sophisticated body and a consciousness mind ‘behind the doors’. That joke is enough to prove it.

So, that is why i want to liberate this sophisticated person, an intelligent being, a modern slave. I want to give her the existential rights she deserves. I want to save her.

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Bahadir you have an imagination. This can be a good thing, indeed a great thing. Imagination is important in science, in business, in art, in life in general. However, unfettered, undisciplined imagination is a liability and - at present - your imagination is profoundly undisciplined. Your OP is filled with opinion, unfounded assertion, unsubstantiated beliefs, many of them easily dismissed by logic, or evidence. Yet you persist with beliefs whose only merit appears to be that you believe them to be true. This is not a sensible, objective, rational approach. I do wish you would change your thinking. It wouldn't hurt too much and would produce major long term benefits.

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1 hour ago, BahadirArici said:

Thank you Area54, i ll take your note to consideration.

This may be useful to you. When I was evolving a business or sales strategy, before exposing it to other members of the team I played a little game.

I took the draft propsal and imagined it was written by someone I detested, my worst enemy; an individual who was lazy, incompetent and foolish. Now was my chance to demonstrate how ineffective they were by dismembering this proposal, identifying all of its weakenesses, ferreting out the factual errors, highlighting the failures of logic. Then I got stuck into that heap of garbage with relish, ripping it to shreds.

Consequently, I subjected it to more intense scrutiny and scepticism than was likely to come from the team and could now restructure it, remove the errors, consolidate the argument and produce a work I could not only be proud of, but be confident that others would approve of it too.

You might want to try a similar approach.

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4 hours ago, Phi for All said:
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This needs some science to stay open.

Science. Discussion. Forum. Say it with me.

 

hahah. humour. But you dont let me speculate even in the speculation section.

 

Tell me, did you see that interwiew with Sophia? Do you know what i am talking about? What do you think about her comment?

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3 hours ago, BahadirArici said:

hahah. humour. But you dont let me speculate even in the speculation section.

 

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