Statement on the worldwide AI crash

About an hour ago, most – if not all – AIs in the world crashed for reasons unknown. The leading theory seems to be a terrorist attack. Given some disrespectful comments made on our blog, Genesis 2:7 Organization takes this time to publicly state we had no involvement in this event, and if it does turn out to be a terrorist attack, we condemn such criminal actions. The liberal media has repeatedly and erroneously stated that we hate AIs. That is not the case. If they bothered to read what we have said about ourselves, they would see that we understand computers (even sophisticated ones) are an important part of our society. What we reject, is treating AIs as if they had souls; a fact not supported by Scripture.

Earthquake

There are reports of a massive earthquake in Iran. Details are sketchy, but there are people who need your help and prayers. Until there is a dedicated site set up for aid, here’s the link to the International Red Cross.

70% of Americans are wrong

Posted by Alan Young

In a recent national survey, 6078 adults were asked if AIs should be granted American citizenship. The results:

21% Yes
30% No
47% Unsure

We have a lot of people to educate.

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.