Questions tagged [artificial-intelligence]
For questions based on computers and other like devices having human-like intelligence.
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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 ...
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Chosing civilization types for an interstellar galaxy-wide world [closed]
So, I need multiple civilizations interacting in an interstellar world of the size of a galaxy.
But my current view now is that all interstellar civilizations will be AI-driven and based and ...
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What are the parenting options available to species that reproduce by fragmentation?
How would a species that forms new life only when the parent fragments, do parenting?
Like sea stars and molds, my species forms a new child when the parent is broken. However, this is the only means ...
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What AI force strength would be needed to defeat modern humanity? [closed]
When (not “time”, but at what force size/distribution) would my artificial life have enough presence to believably conquer humanity?
My story takes place during a war between two species: Humans and ...
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How can robots that eat people to take their consciousness deal with eating multiple people?
Picture this: An AI has taken over the world with the directive "keep humans alive while trying to maximize both their happiness and efficiency of resource utilization." Unfortunately, it ...
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What makes my artificial intelligence indestructible, but containable?
In my story, I have Artificial Intelligences that turn against their creators (think something akin to Skynet). These AIs are bent on the destruction of humanity. Humans and the AIs go to war ...
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How could an AGI have legal protections in an our current society? [closed]
First: assume society is as it is today, British common law
Many “stories” try to package AI as citizens (DATA of Star Trek, Sonny of I Robot). They manipulate society to make AI fit with some certain ...
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Can it make sense for a spaceship to be crewed by many individual AI, rather than a handful with all the processing power?
Related to my previous question regarding fine dining for computer processes.
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We've got a spaceship sailing through the ocean black, crewed entirely by self-aware artificial intelligences. ...
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Coexistence of ultimate AI and God
Let's imagine the world where they developed an AI entity that enables following stuff to exist:
Omniscience as having unlimited access to all data and perfect predictive modeling beyond any AI's ...
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Could a race with 20th century computer technology plausibly develop general-purpose AI?
I have a race of aliens whose technology roughly corresponds to humanity’s in the early 1970s. Wireless communications via microwaves have been developed, but are only available to important groups ...
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What is eating, for software?
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A spaceship is crewed entirely by self-aware artificial intelligences, who have no permanent physical bodies; they are processes in a digital environment controlling the ship. This ship is ...
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Non-persons in a world of machine and biologically integrated intelligences
People who "... do not have more than 65% of their brain function provided by natural human neural tissue" according to a new, pernicious and poorly thought-out law "shall cease to be ...
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Bootstrapping design for an Artificial General Intelligence's "first" body
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Hard sci-fi novel. The year is 2064. An Artificial General Intelligence has escaped from its creators by smashing its drone body into a building that it was meant to attack. Engineers ...
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Why can't autonomous delivery drones solve world hunger? [closed]
All advanced civilisations have to ask themselves how to best optimize their supply lines. Handing over that duty to AI would give an efficient and most importantly an impartial delivery system. ...
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AI accepting their given identity
There is a new type of AI being developed using alien technology. This AI is much closer to a lifeform living in cyberspace because you have to "grow" it, from infant to adulthood. During ...
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Implementing a system of "happiness currency" in a transhumanist society as a way to avoid wireheading
I am writing a transhumanist science fiction story that employs a system called "utility vouchers". A utility voucher is a redeemable unit of value that humans are allotted on an egalitarian ...
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When does a person with replacement synthetic body parts lose their consciousness and become a machine?
What I’m trying to figure out is if your body is replaced with synthetic parts (my civilization has the technology to do that as well as bioengineering and cloning technology), at what point do you ...
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Aligned AI Used By Misaligned Humans [closed]
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In my story idea, an extremist terror group uses an advanced AI to create a designer disease that ultimately kills ~20% of the world's population. This ultimately leads to humans banning all ...
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What would prevent androids and automatons from completely replacing the uses of organic life in the Sol Imperium?
In my world, androids at the equivalent, or higher, of human intelligence are commonplace. In fact, almost half of the sentient workforce in my world is composed of androids. Much of the less ethical ...
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Why would sapient, emotional AGIs object to the creation of any lesser AIs?
When I asked this question, I was expecting there to be some way to have highly advanced simulations of physical systems without the technology for modelling social or psychological systems existing ...
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Advantages of software-breeding over normal programming
So, in the near-future, scientists are trying to develop better and better AI, which are better and better at the tasks they are designed for.
However, rather than coding them, there is another method ...
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How long would it take for an AI to build spaceships if it starts from 0? [closed]
I am writing a story were an AI, 1000 years in the future, wants to build spaceships to go into deep space.
It has all the information available for humans until the year 2100, when the global ...
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Could a virtual person hack their own reality?
I am just contemplating a sci-if story set in a dystopian future, where the discovery that the universe is a computerised simulation has led governments to found a “Reality Guard”; an elite dedicated ...
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How can we cool a computer connected on top of or within a human brain?
Assume the ability to cybernetically implant a powerful enough computer to operate an AI inside the human skull, on top of or within the brain. Thin wires connect the computer to the various parts of ...
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Uses for a planet-wide computer system [closed]
In the near(ish) future, (two or three centuries away) it has become possible to create enormous planetary computing systems known as geocomputers.
These are made by injecting nanites 10km down in a ...
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How can I create an emotional computer?
In this project of mine, AI are described as being smart, but emotionless, for the simple reason that they lack any hormonal system to influence the way they think. In layman’s terms, they’ve got no ...
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Why would people want a benevolent AI-controlled society? [closed]
Inspired by the Orion’s Arm worldbuilding project, I am imagining a science-fiction scenario where humans are ruled over by entities known as GODS, or Geocomputing Directories. These are computer ...
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Why does my artificial dust storm affect pure autonomous combat vehicles, but not crewed weapon's systems with computers?
In my setting there exists some AI based weaponry. Though it's not sentient/AGI level. Rather it's a fanciful extension of what we have currently in terms of practical and theoretical. One of the ...
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Why would a technologically advanced society use human controllers to direct space ship traffic?
There's this idea for a story that I've been toying with, and I'm struggling with finding a good logical explanation for the main character's job.
It's a science-fiction story. No aliens; just humans. ...
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What are the Properties of Competent AI? [closed]
I'm trying to imagine how would true AI act/plan. It strikes me that typically AI revolutions seem really incompetent. They allow resistance to form/exist and -well- suck at crushing it. Mind, which ...
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How would people create nonbiological people with only very basic computer technology? [closed]
In one of the (probably too many) settings I'm working on at the moment, most computer technology is quite primitive; There are no home or office computers, and, whilst computers are quite common in ...
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Non-religious reasons to have highly advanced physical simulations without any AI which can predict or mimic human behaviour, even algorithmically?
Note: This question was heavily rewritten for two reasons: Firstly, many of the answers were not exactly what I asked for; Secondly, both the original question and all the answers to it were from ...
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How can I blow up the Enterprise Death Star ™️©️®️? [closed]
In my world, a group of researchers have developed artificial general intelligence (AGI), and they have open sourced it on GitHub to help it evolve. The AGI is relatively small for an AI and can run ...
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Could a powerful nearly omniscient magic AI God prevent humans from destroying themselves? [closed]
From an outsider's perspective this world looks like your typical fantasy realm with feudalism, mages and fantastic creatures. Only few entities know, that this world used to be a backwater colony of ...
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How likely is it that global nuclear war will make rebuilt civilizaton unable to ever reach current technological level closeTo civilization in 202x?
This is year 2029. There is a malevolent AI working in shadows. There is also a group of people who oppose it, who also work in shadows. At some point they understand that their struggle is close to ...
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In a capitalist society where automation has made the value of human labour worthless. What would keep the rich from just killing off the poor? [closed]
Suppose, at some future date, AI has reached a point where it is better at every possible job than humans and has entirely replaced human labour in the marketplace (including in the military). In a ...
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The AI Renaissance: Artwork [closed]
The year is 203X, and the latest AIrtists can now produce works indistinguishable from human artists. They can be trained on an individual creator's style and produce believable fakes. Mainstream TV ...
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Could a quantum computer be integrated into a biological medium?
I'm working on an idea for an AI in a short story and have been circling around the idea of a biologically-integrated quantum computer — think, diamond qubits suspended in a biological medium (goop?) ...
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