I have written on this before here, so it’s not news, but take a look at this , it’s really worth the few minutes it takes to read it.
Honestly, as I have said before, AI is really nothing more than the computer in Alpha Complex in the pen and paper RPG of Paranoia.
It literally has the same make up.
For those of you who don’t know, Paranoia is a role playing game designed to be funny as well as extremely murderous on the player characters, which is why each player gets six clones of his character. Several will die even before the adventure begins.
The premise is that humans went to live underground in the aftermath of nuclear war. Or possibly before a nuclear war. And in any case the entire underground complex, called Alpha Complex is run by a schizophrenic computer overlord that will euthanise people in a whim. Or for being mutants or part of a secret society. Every player is both of course.
Ratting on a fellow player makes you a hero and foiling any perceived threat earns you brownie points with the computer. You climb the ranks by getting higher in the colour chart that follows the colours of the rainbow in ROYGBIV mode. But above it all sit the Ultraviolet high-programmers. These are people who actually program the computer and since each one has his own agenda the computer is a mess of contradicting elements, producing the quasi random results one gets.
And it matches current AI performance on a pretty much 1:1 ratio so far.
But hey…
Trust the Computer, citizen. The computer is your friend.
Now please report to lobotomisation booth 17.
This post was originally published on my Substack. Link here
