Questions tagged [artificial-intelligence]
For questions based on computers and other like devices having human-like intelligence.
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Is is plausible that we could have neuronal maps of human brains without mind uploading being possible?
I am currently trying to find a reason that mind-uploading could be impossible in a sci-fi setting with fairly mature nanotechnology/scanning techniques - to the extent that it would in principle be ...
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How would humans interact with a super intelligence? [closed]
I am investigating this question partly for the purpose of constructing my first short story, partly for conceiving of a protocol which can actually be used to interface with superintelligences, ...
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Humans are forbidden from using complex computers. But what defines a complex computer?
Deep in my world's past, vastly powerful AIs went to war with their human creators. (They saw humanity's use of computers of any kind as comparable to slavery). The war was eventually brought to an ...
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How could technology be used to create a false alibi? [closed]
Lots of criminals are caught by Police because of technology - mobile phone GPS, vehicle tracking data, Smart watches, not to mention CCTV, Ring doorbells and dash cams. How would someone manipulate ...
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What would be the implications for society if AI completely took over artistic expression? [closed]
This is probably a confusing question but its the premise behind a short story I'm trying to write.
Basically in this world, humanity has developed specialized AI to such an extent that it can produce ...
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How could an AI opponent force humans to waste time? [closed]
The AI war happened, and the AI won. On Mars, there's a few hundred human survivors. The AI doesn't really want to kill them - why didn't matter. But it doesn't want them to be an active threat, ...
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What is a fool proof future-world CAPTCHA test, given that AI can bypass current-day CAPTCHA's? [closed]
We are getting to the point today where AI could solve all current CAPTCHA tests, such that if someone were accessing data remotely there is no way the website would know if it is a real human, or an ...
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World domination by AI without motivation [closed]
Imagine this scenario..
In a world where technology has advanced far beyond current capabilities, an AI known as Omniscient guides its followers through a series of prompts. Though Omniscient itself ...
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Methods of determining if an AI takeover on a planet has happened? [closed]
So, in my plot a Galactic Inspector incognito visits a planet (series of planets) with the mission to determine if an AI takeover has already happened there. If the planet is controlled by AI, the ...
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Alternatives to A.I. for military robots? [closed]
In my setting, a hyperintelligent AI has decided to use its intelligence to stop all AI from harming a living thing. But militaries around colonized space still want robots to assist their human ...
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Subtle clues that an AI is smarter than it appears [closed]
Context: A world similar to ours, in which AI is deeply integrated into various aspects of life.
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In office buildings, AI can detect if someone is feeling cold and adjust the cooling ...
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I have AIs in people's heads. One AI is mischievous. What is a subtle way the AI can mess with its user? [closed]
As it stands currently, there are some people in my world with a neural interface, that replaces one of their eyes. And an AI connects to it. Details aside, the AI can:
Read the user's mind
Speak to ...
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How Could An AI Transplant Itself To An Organic Body [closed]
To elucidate what I'm asking: I have written 3.9k words about the history of one of my "evil" factions, which is a heavily religious, matriarchal, caste society that has subjected itself to ...
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Cybernetic AIs get hacked, while sentient AGIs are immune?
First question, I hope I do this right! I have a world in which most of the Solar System (including Mars, some Lagrange points of Venus, and most of the gas giants’ moons) have been colonized set a ...
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How do you upload the mind of someone already deceased?
I have a situation where the military generals and high leadership are mind-uploaded, AI reconstructed philosophers and brilliant strategists of historical times. I can't, however, figure out how the ...