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AI and Magic
WereElephant:
I doubt this will ever got touched upon, but I had an interesting thought. Suppose that, in the Dresdenverse, AI is created, and it becomes not just a really smart robot, but an actual synthetic lifeform. How would such a being interact with the magical world? Would being in simple proximity to a wizard threaten its existence? Or would the combination of life and technology negate the Murphyonic field due to personal arcane sovereignty, or something like that? Could an AI become a magic user?
Griffyn612:
I don't see why not. Mab already classified computers as ferromancy, and the Murphyonic field only affects humans. AI would be more like a SoI than a human.
But I do think it'd take true sentience, which we're still far off from.
Quantus:
--- Quote from: WereElephant on May 10, 2018, 08:16:14 PM ---I doubt this will ever got touched upon, but I had an interesting thought. Suppose that, in the Dresdenverse, AI is created, and it becomes not just a really smart robot, but an actual synthetic lifeform. How would such a being interact with the magical world? Would being in simple proximity to a wizard threaten its existence? Or would the combination of life and technology negate the Murphyonic field due to personal arcane sovereignty, or something like that? Could an AI become a magic user?
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In the DV I would strongly expect that any emergence of True AI would actually be some modernization of the Spirit of Intellect process, where'd they'd be creating a powerful enough "container" for intelligence that it would call a spirit from the NN. Not entirely unlike how there are now real monsters based on modern toys.
At that point: Yes, such an AI would be capable of magic, of interacting with technology, and anything else we've seen Bob do.
jonas:
I like that line of thought there Q,
Kindler:
--- Quote from: Griffyn612 on May 10, 2018, 09:14:29 PM ---But I do think it'd take true sentience, which we're still far off from.
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Yeah. There's a lot of buzz about "machine learning" and "artificial intelligence algorithms," but neither one is AI as we think of it. Machine learning takes prior solutions and applies them to similar or congruent problems. Does the same thing with data; eyetracking software might gather enough data points to predict where your eyes will focus on specific portions of a UI, then an algorithm might spit out code that takes advantage of that data.
It's actually pretty close to how Luccio describes the Greek Pythia—predicting the future based on prior data. But regardless, it's not true AI. There's a big leap from gathering and regurgitating information to consciousness.
Interesting thought about a Spirit of Intellect. It's basically what happens in Age of Ultron.
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