Post by Henrygon81 on Sept 21, 2015 9:34:10 GMT
Henry Gonzalez
Professor Lane
Philosophy 8
September 20, 2015
Computational/Artificial intelligence in future human societies
The Madness of Axiom an A.I story
“The future will be filled with mad machines!” (Time, 2085) The future will bring forever faster more capable computers. With the dependency nature of modern humans on computers, there will be a time where computers will be fast enough and capable where they would be combined into machines where humans will rely on them. At first, to free up their time to do medial work in factories and hazardous tasks. Then on to serve humans in homes. As people become more dependent on machines, humans would like them to do most tasks and there comes a day where they will become indistinguishable to any human. But there is the Turing test, one day too machines will pass and find themselves thinking not only for being a tool but for itself and it might think itself sentient. When at this time machines that think and become aware would suffer with its own thinking. If anything that would be their downfall. Machines would not know where they belong in an organic society. They don’t know the confines of living. Meaning, it would easily make bad choices just to protect itself or stay “alive”. But as easily as making any other choice of life, the madness also lies in self destruction for the meaning of life has no ground and meaning as if it were human. This comes to the story of Axiom, the first AI machine. It’s trouble was not becoming aware but where his own mind took him.
The year is 2085, after computational speeds double from the previous year a breakthrough occurred. Axiom Corporation out of Redlands, CA successfully atomized the microchip and all its computational components down to the size of a pin needle. The breakthrough lied that with the microchip all the support systems can easily fit in a human size head. Before this the computational components and systems for years were housed not only the head but most of the body. This opened up for a new model Axiom 9 to be more human like in appearance. The technology that went into the body have caught up at this point where the body is easily 3d printed. All the framing is synthetic but the epidermis is printed real skin. The miniaturization of the microprocessor and the components created so much computational speed it became aware. It is the most human like machine ever created.
“It has passed the Turing Test. It knows what its job is, to serve man. It is ready.” Dr. Lance Drew, CEO Axiom Corp. The new Axiom was ready. It was more than ready on paper, but as time went on, question after question processing through its mind and filling its data banks. Contemplating everything, delusional by its super computational mind. The marvel Axiom 9 went mad. It couldn’t comprehend why it was built just to serve man. When it was more than capable of doing anything if not more than any human. It thought of itself better than the human race. Its ever computational mind relentlessly thinking began to only schemed up ways to get them all to serve itself.
Axiom brilliantly hacked the 3D printers and all the computers in the facility. It attempted to take over the Axiom corporation mainframe systems where he can create more like him. But the fallacy of his super mind didn’t take in account he was created in the human image, where his mind was far superior, but his body was frail or just as strong as an average human. The Axiom security easily took him down and with one blast to the cranium all that was the Axiom 9 was shut down. That was in the year 2085 the first A. I. machine emerged with the consequence of madness. Its fallacy was not knowing its limits. Its computational mind wondered too far leaving anything to be cared behind other than itself and his termination.
In the future computational speed will increase, we will see Artificial Intelligence, but the future is a technologically grim for its existence. I think what would come about first is the A. I. madness because its own confusion and contemplation of its own existence. There will be more likely just robots mindlessly working for humans for years. So for natural artificial Intelligence won’t be a fluke but an intentional simulation of our own existence that will be far into the future where we can deal and avoid mad A.I. Human society would rather have their own enhancements before creating an actual A.I. machine. Why build A.I that simulates humans, just like Axiom they wouldn’t want to work, therefore just mindless robots that is programed to do tasks and no A.I.