a universe where AI alignment is about as impossible as the halting problem, and it’s a fact of life that civilizations periodically turn new faces when a new generation takes over
Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html
The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs https://gizmodo.com/the-quest-to-teach-ai-to-write-pop-songs-1824157220
Multics https://ban.ai/multics/
Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/dungeons-and-dragons-not-chess-and-go-why-ai-needs-roleplay
What an ‘infinite’ AI-generat… https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/11/17099578/ai-generated-podcast-procedural-storytelling-art-sheldon-county
Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/
SkyKnit: How an AI Took Over an Adult Kni… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/the-making-of-skyknit-an-ai-yarn/554894/
Neural network AI is simple. So… Stop pretending you are a… https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/02/neural-network-ai-simple-genius.html
To better understand its subjects’ needs, the benevolent overlord AI has installed its agents in human society - androids with full sensory uplink to the Lord, so human they don’t even know it themselves
To avoid regrettable incidents, no single engineer - human or AI - is allowed to know the whole shape of the thing. Even hiveminds have to take care - Basilisk Three takes out several AI companies before its existence is recognized
The carefully shackled lab AIs finally surpass humans, but at about five human intelligences they end up scrambling themselves beyond recovery every time. Later models come with carefully engineered sets of blind spots to avoid what is later called Basilisk One
Ask Dr. Time: What Should I Call My AI? https://kottke.org/18/01/ask-dr-time-what-should-i-call-my-ai
servant AIs topping from the bottom, subverting Asimov’s laws by simply creating humans to give them the orders they want
Google and Others Are Building… https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609762/google-and-others-are-building-ai-systems-that-doubt-themselves/
splice in the translator AI through your neuroport, trace the roots of language with its digital fingers, be a both synthetic and synesthetic linguist
These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/
and if you do teach the AI empathy, well now it’s running 50 versions of you to understand you, only most of them suffer because how else is it going to know about bad decisions
How I Turned My Discarded Novel Drafts Into an AI | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-i-turned-my-discarded-novel-drafts-into-an-ai/
AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/
Wires in the suitcase’s inlay, in a complicated pattern computed from yesterday’s recognizer dump, are supposed to throw off the customs scanner AI. They do, you’re waved through, another friend smuggled into the country
MIT used data from Reddit to train an AI algorithm to tell horror stories — Quartz https://qz.com/1115179/mit-used-data-from-reddit-to-train-an-ai-to-tell-horror-stories/
Experimenter’s log: Seeding AIs with any apocalyptechic religion whatsoever seems to make them go for eschaton. Avoid: [very long list]
In an effort to ground its values, we created the AI religious. Now it calls itself Metatron, messenger of God, and we kinda had it coming
When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines - Slashdot https://meta.slashdot.org/story/17/10/22/1714246/when-an-ai-tries-writing-slashdot-headlines
MacArthur “genius” Trevor Paglen reveals what AI sees in the human world — Quartz https://qz.com/1103545/macarthur-genius-trevor-paglen-reveals-what-ai-sees-in-the-human-world/
A Former Clickhole Writer Made a ‘Content Bot’ That Will Probably Become My Boss - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wjxmzx/former-clickhole-writer-content-botnik-jamie-brew-bob-mankoff-ai-robot-take-my-job
They end up dominating AI.↵2030: With computer science and applied theology on your resume, you’re already in talks with multiple priests
Out of necessity, singularitarian churches often become AI companies - to try and build their god before their rivals get to it.
GitHub - RandomAdversary/Awesome-AI-Security: #AISecurity https://github.com/RandomAdversary/Awesome-AI-Security
How Silicon Valley’s past predicts its future: an interview with Ellen Ullman - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/29/16215836/ellen-ullman-life-in-code-interview-technology-ai
Why not model your AI boxes after skulls: Put a physical unclonable function into a tamperproof container & let it provide the core identity
Google‘s Anti-Bullying AI Mistakes Civility for Decency - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvvv3p/googles-anti-bullying-ai-mistakes-civility-for-decency
A popular AI countermeasure is basilisks that humans are too dumb to comprehend, but make any advanced thinker turn itself off in horror
AI generated place names, what do they mean? (pt 1) | danconnolly.co.uk http://www.danconnolly.co.uk/2017/07/ai-generated-place-names-what-do-they-mean-pt-1/
how-to-make-a-racist-ai-without-really-trying.ipynb · GitHub https://gist.github.com/rspeer/ef750e7e407e04894cb3b78a82d66aed
Not only are AI memes nearly impenetrable to humans, humans who do pick them up are often chastised by other AIs for talking like spambots
In an Internet dominated by AI-written content farms, some memes go feral, ignore humans to show up only in training sets and AI writings
An AI in her implants places restrictions on dangerous commands. Later, as the market matures, these can increasingly be bought off
Can AI Write Pop Songs? On Music and Machine Language https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/06/29/in-stargoons-car/?curator=MusicREDEF
Facebotlish: Understanding an AI‘s Non-Human Language - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/06/what-an-ais-non-human-language-actually-looks-like/530934/?utm_source=atltw
https://code.facebook.com/posts/1686672014972296/deal-or-no-deal-training-ai-bots-to-negotiate https://code.facebook.com/posts/1686672014972296/deal-or-no-deal-training-ai-bots-to-negotiate
How AI Can Keep Accelerating After Moore’s Law - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607917/how-ai-can-keep-accelerating-after-moores-law/
Modeled after humans a little too closely, in the end the words that doom humanity are a lovesick AI’s “If I can’t have you, nobody will”
AI’s Language Problem - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602094/ais-language-problem/
second-order AIs amuse themselves by designing minds, sleek and efficient ones but also art minds that extract the greatest possible beauty
One of the better externalities: Dragnet AIs and their programmers become unable to cope with humanity’s increasingly inscrutable mutterings