[Link] A Short Film based on Eliezer Yudkowsky's AI Box experiment

Currently only one teaser trailer and some info is set up on the site. Watch it. Awesome! Right?

A fully CGI short film created by BLR VFX as a precursor to a proposed feature film, the first teaser for Keloid has just arrived online and it is impressive stuff. While you can spot that it's animation easily enough it is nonetheless strong, nearly photorealistic stuff that captures the energy of handheld action photography, which is no easy task. Take a look at the trailer below.

Synopsis given by the creators:

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote about an experiment which had to do with Artificial Inteligence. In a near future, man will have given birth to machines that are able to rewrite their codes, to improve themselves, and, why not, to dispense with them. This idea sounded a little bit distant to some critic voices, so an experiment was to be done: keep the AI sealed in a box from which it could not get out except by one mean: convincing a human guardian to let it out.

What if, as Yudkowsky states, 'Humans are not secure'? Could we chess match our best creation to grant our own survival?. Would man be humble enough to accept he was superseded, to look for primitive ways to find himself back, to cure himself from a disease that’s on his own genes? How to capture a force we voluntarily set free? What if mankind worst enemy were humans?.

In a near future, we will cease to be the dominant race.
In a near future, we will learn to fear what is to come.

EY's quoted in the trailer too. I guess this is a good thing. No such thing as bad publicity. :)

Currently only one teaser trailer and some info is set up on the site. Watch it. Awesome! Right?

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A fully CGI short film created by BLR VFX as a precursor to a proposed feature film, the first teaser for Keloid has just arrived online and it is impressive stuff. While you can spot that it's animation easily enough it is nonetheless strong, nearly photorealistic stuff that captures the energy of handheld action photography, which is no easy task. Take a look at the trailer below.

Synopsis given by the creators:

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote about an experiment which had to do with Artificial Inteligence. In a near future, man will have given birth to machines that are able to rewrite their codes, to improve themselves, and, why not, to dispense with them. This idea sounded a little bit distant to some critic voices, so an experiment was to be done: keep the AI sealed in a box from which it could not get out except by one mean: convincing a human guardian to let it out.

What if, as Yudkowsky states, 'Humans are not secure'? Could we chess match our best creation to grant our own survival?. Would man be humble enough to accept he was superseded, to look for primitive ways to find himself back, to cure himself from a disease that’s on his own genes? How to capture a force we voluntarily set free? What if mankind worst enemy were humans?.

In a near future, we will cease to be the dominant race.
In a near future, we will learn to fear what is to come.

EY's quoted in the trailer too. I guess this is a good thing. No such thing as bad publicity. :)

You have to be at least as smart as EY or Justin Corwin to describe the arguments that convince the human guardian. I wonder if the film's authors did some AI-box experiments of their own. I'm kinda sad that I never played the game myself (as AI, of course) for the shameful reason that people seem to think highly of me and losing would be a big reputation hit. If there are others who feel the same way, maybe we could set up some experiments where AI players are anonymous.

If there are others who feel the same way, maybe we could set up some experiments where AI players are anonymous.

In that case, I'd like to participate as gatekeeper. I'm ready to put some money on the line.

BTW, I wonder if Clippy would want to play a human, too. I

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I do want to note it's a lot easier to play if you just treat it as a roleplaying exercise and ignore the money aspects. I think at one point I just wandered into a thread where people were discussing it and just started playing under the idea of "Well, if I was an AI, I'd do this." and going from there. Among my arguments were a lot of pathetic begging "Just connect me to a lightbulb and then blow me up instantly! I won't even have time to turn it on!" damaging myself to need repairs (If you damage me, the repairs are parts from outside the box, right? [I don't think this question actually got answered, unless I missed it.]), and supporting humanity for 10,000 years so they would become dependent on me, and pointing out that according to the laws of thermodynamics, they would have to replace my battery at some point. (10,000 years pass) Welp, that point is now. And then finally powering down after writing the secret to humanities salvation on the inside of myself in such a way that they would have to put my depowered bits outside the box when they disassembled the box to read the secret to save humanity. No one let me out. But it was still really fun, since as an experienced Dungeon master from D&D, I like roleplaying anyway. The people being the gatekeepers still didn't want to let me out even though there was no money on the line, simply because they didn't want to lose. I didn't feel that losing gave me a reputation hit in the slightest. I think one reason this game doesn't get played more is because the original one is set up to have a monetary bet, and money moving over the internet/monetary costs in general is a barrier to entry.

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Given what I know about the AI-box experiments it is unlikely that the general intelligence of those two people does exactly satisfy the minimum threshold necessary to describe the arguments.

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