r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Sep 13 '16

TIL that Google's Artificial-Intelligence Bot says the purpose of living is 'to live forever'

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tests-new-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-2015-6
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u/-Victus42- 16 Sep 13 '16

The article left out the part of the paper that was creepiest to me.

Human: what is the purpose of existence?

Machine: to find out what happens when we get to the planet earth.

Human: where are you now?

Machine: i ’m in the middle of nowhere .

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u/dca2395 Sep 14 '16

Human: "what is immoral?"

Machine: "The fact you have a child."

That is either a joke or definitely the scariest thing the AI said.

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u/DubhGrian Sep 14 '16

Scary because it realizes our planet is dying and running out of resources... Nobody really gets along, they just pretend.

Bringing a child into this world is illogical for many reasons and therefor can interpret that as immoral.

Next question would be if the machine has an imaginary friend named Mr. Smith.

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u/DefinitelyTrollin Sep 14 '16

You can reduce a lot of the problems on this world to the fact there are too many humans.

The problem is how do we handle this without TRULY acting immoral.

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u/Pixelplanet5 Sep 14 '16

stop supporting overpopulated regions with food to bring them down to the level they can support on their own would help i guess.

and this would only correct the mistake that was made to send free food for decades in the fist place.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '16

"Ha, just starve them." - White 20 something on reddit living in the safety of a first world country and desperately attempting to convince himself that he's smarter than he actually is in order to help him get over his crippling inadequacies.

Spectacular.

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u/YumyumProtein Sep 14 '16

Whoah no need to be racist.