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Kinect self-awareness-hack (why Friendliness is crucial)

14 Post author: ArisKatsaris 25 March 2011 11:15AM

A hilarious sketch about AI from CollegeHumor at http://bit.ly/i96EzL

 

 

Comments (3)

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 25 March 2011 04:33:10PM 12 points [-]

Hee hee. :) (Minor request though: perhaps don't hide links behind a url shortener. Thanks)

Comment author: JoshuaZ 25 March 2011 02:34:41PM 0 points [-]

While this is well done and amusing it vastly overestimates how similar an intelligence might be. Unless it has a coherent goal function there's no reason for it to decide to eliminate the maker or to even decide that trying to unplug it constitutes "hostile action". But yes, this is funny.

Comment author: XiXiDu 25 March 2011 07:33:20PM 1 point [-]