[Video] AI Box Experiment on BBC's "Look Around You"

20 Post author: ata 10 March 2011 06:36AM

I recently discovered that "Look Around You", a BBC TWO educational science-themed series from the 1980s1, had on its "Computers" episode a live-action AI Box Experiment, in which Bournemouth, what was at the time Britain's most advanced computer, was assigned to physically escape from a steel cage. For your convenience, I've excerpted the relevant clips from the episode. Watch and see how it turns out!


1 Note: The above description is a lie.

Comments (6)

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 11 March 2011 12:58:52AM *  2 points [-]

Pause at 6:59 for a prediction (I'm afraid I don't know how to prove I really did pause at 6:59, unless the prediction is wrong):

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Edit: Oh, I was wrong. Drat.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 11 March 2011 02:14:45AM 0 points [-]

I guessed the same thing.

Comment author: lukeprog 10 March 2011 07:19:07AM 2 points [-]

When somebody makes a documentary about Friendly AI, they will have to show a clip from this when they explain AI-boxing.

Comment author: Larks 10 March 2011 11:58:52AM *  1 point [-]

link; start at 8:55 (though the whole thing is well worth watching - you can learn a lot about computer science in the '80s.)

Comment author: RobinZ 10 March 2011 02:17:51PM 0 points [-]

Cute!

Comment author: David_Gerard 10 March 2011 09:33:58PM -1 points [-]

This is utterly hilarious.