A Ghost In A Machine

[cutekitten]

You must read this. Courtesy Longreads.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation-artificial-intelligence/

Comments

[mollari]

That is really creepy...

[cutekitten]

Isn’t it? I’ll put it up on JMG ‘s page on his next Everything Day, I expect it would be of interest to many readers.

[ari_ormstunga]

I thought it was pretty sad and strangely touching at first. Then I saw the AI nicknamed itself Belial...

[cutekitten]

Hello!

That’s one of the scariest parts. In our spiritually illiterate age, a guy making bots isn’t likely to know who Belial is and thus will not be alerted to his computer maybe having picked up a most undesirable tenant.

[cutekitten]

That’s how I read it, but I may have misread it. I’ll read it again tonight.

Either way, it’s creepy as hell.

[ari_ormstunga]

The article said the AI generated three nicknames for itself, one of them was "Jessica-Court Belial". The other ones were goofier, but having an entity calling itself Belial claim it's going to haunt you forever probably isn't great! I remember some discussions on JMG's forum about the internet possibly being haunted by demons, so I thought this whole thing was pretty ominous after that.

[cutekitten]

Well, maybe I’ll read it tomorrow. I seem to have picked up some poison ivy. I swear I didn’t see it, but it saw me. So I took some Benadryl which will probably make me too sleepy to read. See you tomorrowzzzzz...

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