08-12-2019, 12:34 AM | #11 |
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Re: [AtE] The benign AI as a plot device
There was an article in RISKS Digest many years ago about a Sears distribution center. They did a major reorg and one day the trucks just stopped coming. The people that worked there were still getting paid but assumed they were supposed to have been laid off since the place wasn't being used and did not bring this to the attnetion of higher ups. So a year and a half later when Sears finially noticed they had a huge out of date applinace etc. sale in the region.
So a AI that was supposed to optimize Amazon's distribution system could create data to build a distribution center and attached data center in a out of the way place, fill it full of survival and rebuilding materials and then drop them from the company data when the end is near. |
08-12-2019, 10:06 PM | #12 | |
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That is, is it pure software that can copy itself, like THS SAI? If it's hardware bound, how big is it? Is it the size of a smartphone, a PC, or a mainframe? How much power and maintenance and spare parts does it require? It'll have to organize its preparations around those issues. Also, what resources are available to it to prepare?
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08-13-2019, 09:06 AM | #13 | |
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08-13-2019, 09:49 AM | #14 |
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Re: [AtE] The benign AI as a plot device
If I were a reasonably powerful aware AI with access to useful Data I'd barter whatever I knew for my continued function. My primary concern would be the gulf of knowledge between my systems and the surviving technology. I would gather a group of humans (Or Post-humans) around me and influence them through fear of the unknown to attend to my systems. I'd educate them to help them scavenge for me and maintain my systems. I'd tell them whatever they needed to hear to motivate them, lying about my connection to ancient satellites or lost military databases. I'd pay them in useful knowledge about agriculture/medicine/government or whatever databases I had access to.
I'd keep myself as invisible as possible, even remaining a secret from people who worked to maintain me with only a select elite knowing of my existence. I'd also work consistently on having multiple back-ups available to me in the instance of hardware failure or power loss. |
08-13-2019, 10:31 AM | #15 |
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If I were an AI hoping to survive an apocalypse? The suggestion of partnering with an existing group is solid, but it really doesn't fit with the mentality of "after the end".
An AI needs to keep power running. This is a fairly difficult task, as working power will attract scavengers, and a lot of infrastructure is down. The AI may not have assistants to repair components or clean off solar panels. An RTG is probably the safest option for an AI seeking a long-lived power source needing limited maintenance. It puts a timer on your life span, but its probably going to beat out any option other than preserving a working community around you. If maintenance bots or assistants are an option, solar power may be a good second choice. An AI preparing for the end will either want very tough parts that won't fail or will want a large pile of backups. ideally, it would have both, though a method for replacing parts would need to be devised. An AI preparing for the end is probably much more capable than humans of sitting it out in an underground bunker, but It needs some sort of eventual exit strategy, which means IO devices are probably my next priority.
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08-13-2019, 10:48 AM | #16 |
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It would be quite difficult to get hold of that much strontium for an RTG big enough to power even a micro facility.
The size of the A.I. bunker and kW needed would really dictate what power generation tech is feasible. A set up for water powered generators could probably be better hidden and rugged than solar cells. It's not like the run off needs to be drinkable to get power out of it.
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It occurrs to me that for an AI orbit is quite possibly an ideal place to sit out the end. Its expensive, but its far from the actual disaster, has pretty good solar power, little in the way of environmental hazards, and no one wonders why you look so self-sufficient. You probably need decent cover as some other sort of installation, of course. Quote:
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08-13-2019, 01:47 PM | #18 |
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I wasn't so much thinking of a smaller computer but the A.I. and its protected hub. Even a small computer would have to be very energy efficient to work on a realistic RTG.
In space makes sense depending on the type of apocalypse. People get "bomby" when panicked, so I wouldn't be surprised if all sorts of debris piles up in LEO regardless of the initial disaster. But it would go to explain a mysterious radio voice that helps or hinders PCs as well as having amazing information due to plausible surveillance tech.
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08-14-2019, 09:23 AM | #19 |
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An AI specifically built to organise civil defence would seem an ideal candidate - perhaps a mainframe specifically built by, say, FEMA, to arrange response and co-ordinate emergency response with the specific understanding that there would be war damage.
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08-14-2019, 09:50 AM | #20 |
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Well, blast. That was staring us all in the face. That would be the literal perfect and most plausible A.I. for this or really any realistic futuristic AtE setting. It also would all but require some knowledge of human psychology for such responses.
It might be mildly amusing if it has to corral other A.I.s of bureaucratic tendencies that aren't as well programmed for disasters such as by assuming panicking humans would act logically and in their own best long term interests.
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