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What is eating, for software?

Are we talking about eating here, or dining out? While eating is a necessary resource, I imagine the necessary resources for your job are provided automatically, just as we may defragment our memory i …
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How can I create an emotional computer?

We are asynchronous, analogue, and bring a lot of survival baggage such as childhood trauma, fear of death, and lust to reproduce. Current AI programs are synchronous, digital, and designed so we can …
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How long would it take for an AI to build spaceships if it starts from 0?

It is hard to give a hard science answer for a lot of this. But let us have a go... The AI on the Moon presumably has some ability to run complex projects. This is the sort of thing that computers did …
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What AI force strength would be needed to defeat modern humanity?

There may be an AI tipping point that we know nothing about, or that makes no sense to us. I remember (but cannot find) a short story of an alien species who discussed at length some apparently pointl …
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Could a race with 20th century computer technology plausibly develop general-purpose AI?

Far-fetched. We know that general purpose AI is possible because we do it in our heads. It was a tempting thing to try on a computer, and people were trying to write self-training network-like algorit …
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Cybernetic AIs get hacked, while sentient AGIs are immune?

Consider hacking. If you find some exploitable defect in Windows, then you can hack into a great many machines. If you find a similar defect in MacOS you can hack into fewer machines, but probably som …
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