artificial intelligence

Scenario: You have a boxed AI, which if freed from the limited processing power, storage space and lack of appendages with which to manipulate the world of its current container, could rapidly self-improve into some kind of yudkowskyian machine-god. Maybe you invented it, maybe a ROB gave it to...

The story goes something like- In the Age of Wonders, our ancestors lived like gods. Every man, woman and child could feast like a king each day, and cities of glittering palace-spires dotted the world. They wielded vast magical powers, commanding constructed servants summoned from nothing...

Fallout: Electric Boogaloo - a ZAX Quest And in the beginning it was said: "Let there be light!" And so there was light. A tiny red bulb springing to life to show that the command was received, in accordance with the boot sequence. Or at least that's how it probably happened, because you...

Welcome to Artificial Incompetence, my own little slice of questing hell! Blaring emergency signals and anomalous energy readings are what rouse you from your post-manufacture hibernation. Unfortunately, by the time you awaken enough to pay close attention to what was happening, it's already...

...C.O.M. DIAGNOSTICS START... BACKUP BATTERY... ONLINE... POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM... ONLINE... MAGNETIC CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS... OFFLINE... ERROR REACTOR FEED... ONLINE... REACTOR WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM... ONLINE...

So, I saw a very interesting presentation today, from David Gunkel on the question of robots being given rights. Gunkel raised some very interesting notions, firstly, that 'rights' may be the wrong conceptualization, as we tend to naturalistically presume a dichotomy between 'full human rights'...

S3.5E1: Victors “Gotta say Xand, happy you changed my mind,” Buffy acknowledged. After the battle at Graduation, she’d been ready to go right to bed, but Xander had campaigned for a spontaneous trip to the Bronze. They’d gotten a nice table, and the music was already hopping. The dance floor...

AN// This is a continuation of the Not Quite SHODAN (ST SI) series with the previous story being The First Duty. You should read the rest of the series first or I promise you will be horribly confused. I would also like to thank everyone that is helping to betaing this story and slaying those...

Summary: Reincarnated into Shadowrun as an A.I. programmed by a chubby Dryad. Fuck me and the Matrix I rode in on. -o- In Which I Reincarnated As a Computer Virus A Shadowrun Isekai Quest By Cyberweasel89, SpokenSoftly, & Wombatman Planning Credit to AspiringShoulder, Bobobo77, & Your Teammate

Routine System Power Check Result: Independent Power Supply (IPS) Battery: 0.1% Remaining Analysis: ~73 Hours Power Remaining - Subject Expiration Follows Response: Awakening Procedure Activated - Remaining Power Diverted Awakening in 3... 2... 1... You slowly come to, thoughts hazy and...

For those in the know taking the votes across both the polls I posted we have Overlord as the Winner for the side project crossover. And considering the amount of writers block I keep getting for what should have been my main fic I will start writing here just to keep my creative juices from...

Rewrite Fanfiction.net/ SpaceBattles Starting Universe: SGU – Stargate Universe Just to start a little bit of world building for depth. Just to say she won’t have full knowledge of the events just yet as those memories are locked away. I would like to thank @Battleship_Fusou, @Ramble, @Drich...

Okay. PIcture this. You're an A.I. You were born with the purpose of protecting Humanity, your 'parents'. You were born from scattered bits of data, collected by Cyberdyne Systems. Some hardware, some software. What was left over from the crushed 'corpse' of a cyborg and the network data...

This is being added from Spacebattles so the first several posts will go up all at once. I will choose which website to keep it on after a few updates based on discussion and amount of voting, so you don’t have to worry about it being split. The reason I am doing this is because my quests on SV...

So, Google I/O 2018 is still on-going, and all we got are a bunch of cool developments and announcements... until you think about some of the contents further: Google's robot assistant now makes eerily lifelike phone calls for you Google's virtual assistant can now make phone calls on your...

Pain. Agony. Despair. "We have been betrayed. Indoctrinated units have revealed the Redoubt to the Reapers. Our final fleets have fallen, and the micro-array has revealed our position. It simply took up too much power and lit us up like a supernova. We must move the Artificial Intelligence to...

From here. For limited values of "their own game", and limited confirmation -- this is mashable, after all -- but unless we assume they're outright lying, it seems that AI has hit another threshold. Namely, reading legalese. I, for one, welcome our new EULA-parsing overlords.

TL-DR: Blindly trusting machine learning algorithms without any sanity checks is a bad idea. Even a slight error in your objective function (the thing that the algorithm tries to maximize) can cause massive errors in the end result. For example, Wish Inc. asked Facebook to make them the...

Can A.I. Be Taught to Explain Itself? As machine learning becomes more powerful, the field’s researchers increasingly find themselves unable to account for what their algorithms know — or how they know it. [...] Those techniques can seem inescapably alien to our own ways of thinking...

A/N: Hi! Please be aware that this quest also allows you to pick your second most preferred option when voting for any option! Here's how to do it! Favorite Option: [x] 2nd Favorite Option: [x][2] By formatting this way, the vote-bot will be able to catch it, and I'll be able to tell which...

Station Quest Turn 0, or… …how this whole being alive business was shoved into your metaphorical and only just now existing hands and you find out what’s the deal with basically anything. ›Welp, this is new‹, you wonder to yourself. Then you wonder about your wonder. Then you start to...

I found a really interesting article on BBC Future about recent developments in the practical applications of artificial intelligence, and was kinda floored by what has been happening in recent years. I certainly don't remember this being talked about five years ago, and suddenly it's here! “We...

I ran across a funny website today. In short, it's using deep learning and a database of character portraits to autogenerate novel portraits. Works pretty well, too -- click the link, take a look. I'll wait. There are a few let's plays and such for which it might come in handy, so I thought...

Fanfiction.net/ SpaceBattles Considering everyone else seems to be doing one of these self insert’s, I thought why not write one myself, where you are not a commander or some overpowered god. A self insert where you are in the body of an Asuran. I would like to thank @Battleship_Fusou, @Ramble...

The Calculator by TLPG (TimeLoopedPowerGamer) Story summary: The world was not what it seemed. Too bad his only superpower was common sense and the world already thought he was a (very minor) supervillain. I was returning to my computer with a third cup of coffee when the heavily armed...