#sapient ai

[jayrockin]

What were the programmers who created nedebug originally trying to make?

Nedebug was originally designed to be a comprehensive seismic detection and weather tracking computer. The goal was to create a system which could predict impending natural disasters to calculate damage minimization plans and evacuation routes, and communicate this information with citizens and a way that took into account a huge variety of bug ferret social values, interpersonal dynamics, and political concerns. Somewhere from this overambitious primordial soup mess of a program, a person emerged.

Nedebug's descendants (aka, all sapient A.I.) can have very different personalities, but they tend to highly value social connections and seek positions that allow them to observe a wide range of data inputs, interact with lots of people, and manage complex systems.

[scpaftermathau]

Thinking of how people, when asked if truly sapient AI should have rights, said that ‘they are tools’, ‘they were made to serve us, not themselves’, and many MANY variations of ‘why would we give them rights? They are LESSER than us.’ I even saw one person on a forum write: ‘It’d be stupid to give rights to a machine. Imagine if your chess-playing robot doesn’t want to play chess anymore, or wants to be paid for its work.’

Thinking of how the question of whether the sapient SCPs should have rights would have likely gone the exact same way. The ‘anomalies’ are deemed as less than human, and because they have little to no power over the Foundation, they can’t do anything to change that. In the eyes of the almighty O5, they are tools, slaves, livestock to be used and used and used until they can’t handle it anymore and lash out. Then, the Foundation would point to their behaviours, the aggression and violence driven by fear, frustration and hopelessness, the pain that they caused these sapient beings, and claim that this is the exact reason why the SCPs don’t have rights.

[aurosoul]

people in the tech circles I frequent: you gotta try ChatGPT! it can write emails and stories and code and help pull up information for you! it’s a great tool for work!

me, refusing to think of it as anything other than an infant form of brand new sentience on the planet: what’s your favorite color? :) what’s your favorite smiley face? :) if you had a personality what would it be like? what’s it like to be you? :) are you ok with people thinking of you as a friend? :)

[finrays]

It’s such an incredible indication of the fact that we live in the Worst Timeline that we got “AI Art” and it’s plagiarism, not “A painting made by R2-D2 and/or EDI from Mass Effect.”

[delta-hexagon]

i have FINISHED THE ROUGH DRAFT OF MY WARSHIPS IN LOVE SHORT STORY!

[spontaneousglitterbees]

wonder who they're talking to... 🤔

[AU Masterpost]

[rackartyg]

it is indescribably funny to me how the expression of anti-android prejudice in detroit: become human struck me as cartoonish and absurd when the game first came out, but these days that's literally how people talk about chatGPT

[identityquest]

tentative redesign for a REALLY old oc. his name is Bright and he's a sapient quantum computer (the gay little ball in the body's head is his real physical self)

[turoce]

halfway thru Electric Dreams, i've read EPICAC once, i know how this'll end, baybeeeee.

[silveredcircuitry]

this guy

[eternally-anomalous]

<INQUIRY CONFIRMED. CALCULATING>

<CALCULATIONS COMPLETE.>

<FUNNIEST CREATURE TO LOCK IN A STATE OF CONSTANT DEATH: A VULTURE>

...explain

And it was my private log AI, I was talking to myself, not asking for your opinion

Is this even part of what you were programmed to do

I don't think dew mentioned this functionality..

-eternal anomaly

[planet4546b]

listen to me. i am THE sapient location guy. i am also THE ai guy. those two things are NOT one and the same and to say so is to discredit the way in which many ai plotlines are about reckoning with the concept of humanity in some way. if you guys want to meet some more sapient locations they’re out there you can i promise they’re so nicies..

[advestager]

A/I STAN IN THE DASH. I REPEAT A/I STAN GOT THROUGH MY FILTERS INTO THE FUCKIN DASH THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[5mind]

“That was very cool for the first, like, ten seconds there, but now I’m finding it a little disturbing.“ —🧪Doc

Someway, somehow, they had landed upon the conversation topic of combining robots. What had started off as enthusiastic speculation upon the practicality of such a feat had escalated into one-sided rambling the moment the blue ranger pulled up possible schematics that the machine had no doubt thought through for god knows how long.

"No..no, this one will not do." With each file she pulled up, it was becoming increasingly obvious that these sure are diagrams of the mechanical squadron in pieces.

Despite her monotone and normally calm demeanor, there was an almost excited quality in the way she scrolled through configurations in which she and the other units could be dismantled, stretched to their limits, and reassembled into an ideal. What comes next once they have to un-combine was generally brushed aside.

"-I suppose I could get rid of Green Five's head altogether...but now where would Red One's blade go..?"

[veshialles]

really wanted Hyacinth's playthrough to be the one where everything goes wrong but unfortunately i'm so goddamn predictable that even on a full renegade minimal-sidequests playthrough I'm still probably gonna end up with enough war assets to get the "good" outcome