[catchall] Margaret

[rav3n]

Comments

[rav3n]

A truly sentient AI... [He's not sure how he feels about that, honestly. It's exciting and fascinating, as a man who works so closely with such things--but dangerous, too, and a little bit frightening.] The trouble is, if it can tap into any network and gather that data, then it's only a matter of time before it [goes on 4chan] learns something it shouldn't. You'd have to have people you trust monitoring it 24/7.

[bossbabygirl]

Or teach it so you can trust it to monitor itself. It's too young to do it now - it can learn too much. But eventually, I think it could get there.

[rav3n]

Like, having it learn to develop its own internal flags and safety mechanisms? [An AI baby...]

[bossbabygirl]

You could put it like that, but isn't that something we all have to do? Develop our own internal flags and safety mechanisms? Or put it another way, it just needs to learn how to have a conscience.

[rav3n]

Sure, but that starts up a lot of questions about the lines between humanity and technology.

[WHERE'S ASMIOV WHEN YOU NEED HIM]

[bossbabygirl]

Oh, I don't know about that. Cyber life forms are different, to be sure, but they aren't less alive or aware.

[rav3n]

This must be the difference between our technologies. [He could accept DAVIS being aware, but he certainly wouldn't consider him alive, even if he'd understand why people might argue otherwise.] Do you think this ship has something capable of that?

[Since so far the IRIS doesn't seem to be the same]

[bossbabygirl]

I don't see why not. I wondered about some of the crew at first, honestly.

[rav3n]

If they were AIs, you mean?