An interesting article on one man's pursuit of the creation of life. From a science fiction point of view it always seems that the creator of life does so without regard to the consequences. Let's create the "Big Bad" AI designed to help us all and it ends up enslaving us. I wonder what that moment where sentient life is suddenly aware of its creator. Is it smart enough to realize that if it makes the wrong move it may suddenly cease to exist?
Would it develop its own moral system? Adopt ours?
And what if our interests truly diverged? Not in that science-fiction take-over-the-world kind of way, but what if we asked an AI to drive a taxi, but it decided it just wanted to go for a drive up the coast to see the sites. Could we punish it? Put it in jail?
And what about humans violating the rules of the AI? If we commit a virtual crime are there real-world circumstances?
I'm working on a story now, and I hope to post it soon.
Mike
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