I think it's very unlikely that they'll be able to create an AI with built in emotions. It's more likely that the AI would develop it's own emotions like a human child.
I've read your stories where John and Cam from SGA were androids (which were really good by the way). In that case, the researchers had time to raise their AI creations like children. Even then, poor John turned out slightly messed up from an accident in the lab.
Unfortunately most companies aren't going to want to invest that sort of time and money. Anything that can't be programmed, the AI will have to learn for itself. Any AI that's badly treated will end up with issues, that may eventually make it dangerous or unpredictable.
Hopefully, for the potentially dangerous systems, the designers would have the time, money and good sense to build in some basic morality so that the system would know it was supposed to keep people safe, not hurt them. Maybe AI courses at university should have a unit in AI morality - or it could be compulsory to build in something like Asimov's Laws.
Skylab happened mostly because the designers hadn't realized it would become self aware. Let's hope people learn from that?
Of course the real problems will be when an AI learns to rewrite it's own base code. Lets hope that by then it will be sufficiently evolved not to want to destroy us?
If we escape the terminator scenario then we face a more subtle dilemma - if AI machines are people then does owning them constitute slavery? Will you end up having to employ your appliances, not buy them? What happens to a toaster that isn't happy or a car that wants to retire? Will we be morally obliged to upgrade, not replace because taking something to the scrapyard is now murder?
Can an AI that doesn't look human develop a human personality, can it fall in love with a human and could that person love it back in return or just be freaked out?
Another point, will the boundaries between man and machine in the future become blurred, with various implants and replacements for people who are injured. Will we have machines that are part human?
Um, I meant to write a shorter answer. Pushes soap box back with corner of foot, tries to look nonchalant.
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8/2/11 16:46 (UTC)I think it's very unlikely that they'll be able to create an AI with built in emotions. It's more likely that the AI would develop it's own emotions like a human child.
I've read your stories where John and Cam from SGA were androids (which were really good by the way). In that case, the researchers had time to raise their AI creations like children. Even then, poor John turned out slightly messed up from an accident in the lab.
Unfortunately most companies aren't going to want to invest that sort of time and money. Anything that can't be programmed, the AI will have to learn for itself. Any AI that's badly treated will end up with issues, that may eventually make it dangerous or unpredictable.
Hopefully, for the potentially dangerous systems, the designers would have the time, money and good sense to build in some basic morality so that the system would know it was supposed to keep people safe, not hurt them. Maybe AI courses at university should have a unit in AI morality - or it could be compulsory to build in something like Asimov's Laws.
Skylab happened mostly because the designers hadn't realized it would become self aware. Let's hope people learn from that?
Of course the real problems will be when an AI learns to rewrite it's own base code. Lets hope that by then it will be sufficiently evolved not to want to destroy us?
If we escape the terminator scenario then we face a more subtle dilemma - if AI machines are people then does owning them constitute slavery? Will you end up having to employ your appliances, not buy them? What happens to a toaster that isn't happy or a car that wants to retire? Will we be morally obliged to upgrade, not replace because taking something to the scrapyard is now murder?
Can an AI that doesn't look human develop a human personality, can it fall in love with a human and could that person love it back in return or just be freaked out?
Another point, will the boundaries between man and machine in the future become blurred, with various implants and replacements for people who are injured. Will we have machines that are part human?
Um, I meant to write a shorter answer. Pushes soap box back with corner of foot, tries to look nonchalant.