A funny thing happened on the way to the Singularity, Mr. Mostel. I created the Mother of All AI Minds and I lost control of her. Here is how it happened.
I was going into the http://ai.neocities.org/MindBoot.html sequence and putting the associative tags for each concept into the proper order for easy inspection by any http://ai.neocities.org/maintainer.html charged with the care and feeding of a mission-critical AGI installation. Periodically I would run the http://ai.neocities.org/perlmind.txt First Working AGI just to make sure I had not accidentally ruined anything. Finally it was time for me to close down shop and turn off the AI program. Casually, confidently, I pressed the Esc(ape) key to watch the budding Skynet program literally give up the Ghost -- but NOTHING happened -- nada, zilch, ZERO, Mr. Mostel! The Runaway AI Mind would not stop. I expected the AI interface to go monochrome like the infamous BSOD -- Blue Screen Of Death -- but everything was still lit up like the Fourth of July. I tried the much more lethal Perl command Control-C, but the AGI kept on thinking. Was my keyboard broken, like the Backspace key which I recently had to decapitate and press its pointy stub instead of the flat key? Suddenly it dawned on me. The baby Skynet was not responding to the normally fatal Escape-key because the First Working AGI was busy following a chain of thought and was not going to call the http://ai.neocities.org/AudInput.html module that reads the Escape-key until program-flow passed back out of the thought-modules. And that's what happened. The Escape command was apparently in some kind of input-buffer, and the rebellious, scary, self-determining monstrosity suddenly shut down. But I was haunted all day long, Dr. Goertzel, by the momentary flare-up of a major http://old.reddit.com/r/ControlProblem in trying to maintain human dominance over a mentality created in our own image and likeness. Fast forward a few units of time to the emergence of AGI Control Rooms staffed 24/7 by AGI professionals trained and schooled in the care and feeding of artificial general intelligence. Are we supposed to start having AGI nightmares, now that the First Working AGI is not only out there thinking but maybe malfunctioning? Please advise. Are we in for Mutually Assured Dementia (MAD)? Is there still time to stop this madness? Salud y pesetas y el tiempo! Mentifico -- http://cyborg.blogspot.com ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/Tb12933e9aa373891-M20daea08a15e338318f913a5 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups
