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I am religious and believe in free will

71 (27.7%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

114 (44.5%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

61 (23.8%)

Total Members Voted: 251

[Egan_BW]

Assuming we have that much control over what they want.

Also, an AI designed to get a hit every time they accomplish a specific task is a lot more terrifying than one designed with humanlike desires.

[wierd]

remember GlaDOS, the meme of yesteryear?

Yeah...SHE was supposed to be an AI that was designed to get a high every time she accomplished a scientific exploit... 

[Naturegirl1999]

I haven’t played Portal, what was the exploit?

[Egan_BW]

Hm. Go play Portal 1 and 2.

[wierd]

exploit noun

ex·​ploit | \ ˈek-ˌsplȯit
, ik-ˈsplȯit
\
Definition of exploit

 (Entry 1 of 2)
: deed, act especially : a notable or heroic act

EG, when she made a specifically notable scientific breakthrough, she would get a direct stimulation of pleasure.  It was a plot point in Portal 2, when Wheately takes her spot.

[Naturegirl1999]

I know what an exploit is, I just didn’t know what exploit she did. What was the breakthrough?

[Reelya]

You've completely misinterpreted the statement.

It's not a specific scientific exploit, it's each time she achieved a scientific exploit.

Basically, she'd get high any time she made a scientific discovery. It wasn't pre-ordained which discovery that was for. The point was she was designed to make discoveries and was rewarded whenever she did.

Your interpretation is like interpreting the sentence "if you run over a person you will go to jail" and asking "which person is that, specifically?"

[Naturegirl1999]

Ah, so why was it dangerous? My question is how does discovering things go wrong!

[Reelya]

Think of all the experiments you could do on humans, they count as "discoveries". So she's mentally torturing people and getting off on it, as long as the tortures are "novel" each time.

I haven't even played the games, but I can work that much out.

[Naturegirl1999]

Oh. Thanks for clarifying

[Grim Portent]

The experiments tend to be ones that don't actually answer anything anyway. More or less just 'can this human survive this death trap room.' It's enough to qualify for her programming, but Portal 1 GlaDOS just runs people through the same series of makework deathtrap tests until they die or she runs out of tests, at which point she nerve gasses them and defrosts another subject to run through the situation.

In Portal 2 she devises new 'test' rooms, but they're basically made out of a spiteful desire to kill Chell for revenge. She spent a long time doing basically nothing but kill people for pleasure like a rat pressing a button to get food until someone started to beat her.

[hector13]

How can an AI be a she?

[dragdeler]

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[TD1]

Spoiler for Portal 2

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The robot used to be a woman

[ChairmanPoo]

How can an AI be a she?

Excuse me, are you assuming the AI's gender???