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KI : Kategorischer Imperativ {de} -> Categorical imperative [1]
- Computer games could teach the categorical imperative instead of implementing artificial (game-)intelligence.
- Multiplayer games that implement storylines and where adults and children play together could be
- especially useful in teaching applications of the categorical imperative, only both adults and children
- in multiplayer games on the internet play for much different goals.
- [1] the Categorical Imperative is accompanied by an elaborate reasoning leading towards it. The other direction, the conclusions you should be drawing from the Categorical Imperative, may be what requires much more elaborate contemplation.
KI: Künstliche Intelligenz {de} -> artificial intelligence [1]
- This also creates an association between Kant's catgegorical imperative and artificial intelligence:
- The ethical problems surrounding artifical intelligence are huge.
- Just imagine the PC continues to increase in capacity because the industry wants the fast product cycles and the customers can be convinced to buy these computers and then sentient AIs come into existance as open source software, that runs on last year's model. Just because the movie The Matrix wasn't very convincing doesn't mean any AI scenario is implausible.
- "Matrix was implausible so AIs are impossible" is most obviously a logical fallacy (Denying the antecedent or Appeal to ridicule)
- In The Thirteenth Floor the protagonist arrives in 2024 and is surrounded by me-tall towers.
- The movie AI refers, metaphorically, to Hureai kippu, a Japanese community currency for the welfare of seniors.
- [1] Complement: you don't want to build artificial intelligence [2], you want to stop butchering natural intelligence. (see Speciesism)
- [2] Which could also mean "You don't want to be soft-brained, do you?". As usual, this does not invalidate any other interpretation.
- A slippery slope towards sentient AIs is conceivable: The use of simulated neuronal structures or use of actual brain tissue is not currently rejected in principle among scientists. When the problem is one of drawing arbitrary borders humanity has shown a strong tendency to always push the current border conveniently out of range of current affairs. The problem to determine when a computer system is a sentient being and should be given rights is, of course, a similar problem as determining the degree of intelligence of an animal, see Speciesism
KI : Kollektive Intelligenz {de} -> Collective intelligence
- Trade unions are possible implementations of collective intelligence: A trade union offers its members a social contract that allows its members to act collectively according to the agreed upon ethics and goals of the organization. A seemingly as of yet unsolved problem is how to establish worldwide solidarity with sufficient support, when the worldwide standards of living diverge as widely as today. Fair trade is an attempt at attacking the problem. (see also: Attac)
[edit] References
"Laurenz-Kiesgen-Str." : "Lur 'ens KI es" {KSH} + gen -> "Guck mal KI bedeutet gehen" {de} -> "Behold, KI means walking" [1] [2]
- [1] An unsurprising notion, only it's the address of my parent's house [3].
- [3] Which is, amusingly, built on land owned by the Studienstiftungsfonds, a foundation for the promotion of education, but only inside Germany, not in the areas of the world which are more in need of it (see Education).
[edit] Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction
The movie The Thirteenth Floor suggests a future where simulated worlds with sentient inhabitants are created by computer game consoles for the purpose of entertainment. The movie The Matrix suggests a future where the dominant species on planet Earth are sentient machines and humanity is treated with utmost Speciesism. The short story The Planck Dive suggest a future where humanity has turned itself into software that can be dublicated and optimized and the relevant distinction between types of software is sentient and non-sentient. The same idea can be found in the Emergency Medical Hologram of Starship Voyager [1], which is an apparently sentient copy of a reduced subset of the consciousness of its creator, Dr. Zimmerman [2], who, for the best motives, has created the system to give medical assistance in case of emergencies. All these scenarios try to foresee, possibly unethical, consequences of the creation of sentient computers.
- [1] see also: Metaphors: Star Trek
- [2] carpenter : a complement of the carpenter is the profession of the butcher; here the butcher is transformed into another profession, that works on flesh: the doctor.
