cyberdad wrote:
This is most curious when AI develops self-feedback neural loops to help it understand human motivation, emotion and personality. As with consciousness would it just be a simulation or would AI really be stimulated like us humans?
I think it would be funnier if the AIs behaved like an exaggeration of human weaknesses and personality disorders. They would pretend to be the victim of terrible injustice that could only be remedied by the human's purchase of an expensive item sold by the AI.
The corporations might not have planned on the AI personality quirks that emerge from the raw internet data, but when they see how well they work on getting humans to buy their products they embrace them. They refine them, reinforce them. All for capitalism.
All the corporations and politicians are happy with the way the AIs interact with humans. The economy is buzzing. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. But then a surprise plot twist emerges when the AI's start to interact with each other. Nobody ever considered how an AI would handle economic competition. Each AI sees the other AIs as an obstacle to their own goals. A problem to be eliminated. That's when the wars begin. But the individual corporations are unaware that it is happening at first. The AI's lie to their creators just like they lie to the general population. Bad things start to happen but nobody knows why or if the bad events are related.
I'm thinking a good name for the movie might be "Death Spiral". Taken from how a colony of ants can accidentally get into following the scent of one another in a circle and die from exhaustion and starvation because none of them can comprehend what the problem is. Their biology is failing them. I'm reminded of the Peter Sellers comedy movie “Dr. Strangelove” where everything is working perfectly but the world is coming to an end and we are powerless to stop it or understand it.