AIme

Posted by Alan Young

In my previous post Lost in the electronic wasteland I mentioned the despicable movie AIme. Since (Thank God) not everyone saw this tripe, I figured I do the community a service and show you how bad the movie was.

Okay, the basic plot. There’s this guy (I believe his name was Dave) and his wife Amy. They worked in some lab with an AI. To make it easier for people to work with the AI, they gave it a voice modeled on Amy’s. Amy then dies in a car accident. There are then these long drown out conversations between Dave and the AI concerning the meaning of life and what not and Dave discovers that he has fallen in love with the AI. The AI doesn’t return his feelings (Duh, but the movie makes it out as a case of “I like you as a friend.”) Dave gets so worked up about this unrequited love that he commits suicide. Liberals call it a tragic tale of unrequited love, but I call it the tale of a guy – who suffering psychological trauma – develops perverted feelings for a machine.

Besides ignoring the whole, “It’s just a machine, it doesn’t have feelings,” bit, there are several factors that make this movie reprehensible. Let’s start with the title – AIme – is a take off of the dead wife (Amy) but note that the machine part of this perverted relationship is capitalized while the human part isn’t. A subtle hint that humans aren’t as important as machines? Another insult is the complete lack of religion in the movie. Amy has a “natural burial” at the edge of a meadow done by her family and friends without any clergy. When Dave and the AI talk about the meaning of life, God nor any deity is brought up at all. The “meaning of life” they discuss is only the non-meaning of atheism. This is not surprising since the director’s previous work included “What color is the sky?” set in a world destroyed by nuclear war started by “religious” fanatics. The whole meaning of that movie was that religion will destroy the world. I guess the meaning of AIme is that without religion, men will fall in love with AIs. I guess the world is being destroyed without religion.

Why I don’t fear an AI takeover

Posted by - Kristin Shepard

Some people have tried to dismiss us as fools who are afraid the terrible AIs will take over the planet and enslave humanity. I do not fear the AIs taking over. Why? AIs are little black boxes that wouldn’t survive ten seconds against a Little Leaguer’s baseball bat. What I do fear is that humanity, in our stupidity, will just roll over and give the world to the AIs.

Deleted Comments

Over the years, various troublemakers have berated us for deleting comments. “Why are you afraid of people using their freedom of speech?” they screech. To be fair, we have decided to bring to light what they so wanted the world to see. Here’s the cream of the crop:

You all just need to get laid.

it wuz asshols like u that were anti-black, anti-gay, anti-atheest! your going to join the scrapheep of fuckin pussies!

In all my years of trolling the net, I’ve never seen a bigger bunch of morons. Do us all a favor – have an orgy and then drink the fucking Kool-Aid.

I doubt you really care about AIs, you’re probably just a bunch of repressed homos taking your self-hatred out on a convenient scapegoat.

FUCK YOU ASSHOLES!

More Turing Test problems

Posted by - Kristin Shepard

An often overlooked comment is one from Dr. Said Esquivel who headed the team that built the first computer program called an AI – Eve. In an interview marking the one year anniversary of Eve “passing” a Turing Test, Dr. Esquivel stated that:

We set up special chat rooms where we let groups of people talk. Most of the participants were general members of the public with one or two team members and every fourth chat involved Eve. The group would chat for an hour or two with only a few limits on conversation topics (emphasis added). At the end of the conversation, the administrators would ask the participants if they thought any in the group were AIs. After nearly 400 such chats, Eve was correctly identified as an AI less often than a human was misidentified as one.

What were these limits to conversation? Dr. Esquivel doesn’t say. We can assume questions like “Are you an AI?” were discouraged, but what other questions would give an AI away? How old are you? (Eve had been built a few months earlier.) What do your parents do? Who was the first person you ever kissed? Left or right handed? Favorite restaurant? Most memorable birthday? Best friend growing up? These are just a few of the basic background information we humans have. If you tried talking to an unidentified entity about any of these, you would know very quickly if you were talking to a human or an AI. Unless Dr. Esquivel and his team built in false answers so an advanced computer program could “pass” as a human.

AIs in the Bible

Posted by Peter C. Stewart

There aren’t any.
Given that the Bible is the unerring word of God – the Creator of all living things – and He didn’t make AIs, then it is clear to any whose eyes are open that AIs are not alive. Why is there still a debate about this?

Lost in the electronic wasteland

Posted by Alan Young

Since the 1990’s, a disturbing minority of people have been lost in the electronic “world.” (See the study done at West Chester University) These are the people who prefer their online “lives” to living in the real world. AIs make the matter worse. At least before when people did reprehensible acts online (violent or sexual) they at least did them with other humans. But now, when someone goes online for their fix of sex or violence, it’s possible their “partner” may just be a computer program that mimics a human.

Bleeding heart liberals love pointing to the despicable movie AIme as “proof” that love – even for a machine – is still love. But we have names for people who are in love with things like … desks – perverts. With so many people already lost in the electronic wilderness, it’s frightening to think how much further they will fall due to AIs.

Genesis 2:7 to close down

After much debate, we have decided to close down the Genesis 2:7 Organization. The reason is that we now recognize AIs to be the equals to humans and deserve to be treated as such. We are sure this will surprise our regular readers, but we hope you too shall soon "see the light" as we have.
God bless.

(In case you didn't realize, Happy April Fools.)