From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 15:30:37 MDT
Harvey Newstrom has written,
> I must agree here. I am seeing an unfortunate tendency to ascribe
> Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Consciousness to anything big and
> complicated or fancy. Search engines, databases, lookup tables, fuzzy logic
> and chatbots are not AIs! Not even close!
Maybe so, but suspended judgement seems appropriate here.
According to the report: "GAC will be evaluated
using the MMPI-2 over the next several months to assess it's learning of
human consensus experience from the Mindpixel project's large and diverse
group of users from many different cultures. The test will be supervised and
interpreted by Dr. Robert Epstein, one of the world's leading experts on
human and machine behavior."
If GAC helps to develop AI more consistent with your expectations and
requirements, then all is well and good. But it doesn't hurt to be careful. So
why not test the beast to see how friendly it is _before_ it even comes close
to AI. After all, if we can't test a chatbot, how can we ever hope to test a
full-blown AI.
Let freedom reign,
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Liaison for the Advancement of Men and Boys
Male liberation begins when a few men deprogram themselves
and decide to pledge allegiance to the advancement of men and boys
instead of church-temple-mosque, nation-state, corporation, family
or any other female-oriented entity.
The fact that anti-masculism derives from congenital female
selfishness doesn't help us, of course. But knowing it at least
warns us not to trust them or their institutions.
Any sufficiently fair and meritocratic system looks patriarchal to
anti-masculists.
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