Mind Map and Concepts

Mind Map link: https://www.lucidchart.com/invitations/accept/78c219a0-b9b4-49e2-bf26-a6800784d42e

Concept 1: One of the things we teach our current, primitive softwares to do is to identify objects or patterns. Face recognition is a powerful tool that allows programs to analyze the faces of people in pictures or video and identify said people, which is useful to catch criminals. “Analyze, identify, react” is all these softwares do. What if, once we develop strong AI, we use this very simple process to create a software that persuades people into believing or doing whatever it wants? A machine that can produce arguments while analyzing the verbal and physical response of the people it is interacting with has the capacity to be the most believable and persuasive being on Earth. If softwares can become the world champions of Chess or Go, what is stopping them from being masters of the game of debate? After all, the process remains the same: analyze what your opponent is doing, identify why they are doing it and react in order to counter this action.

Concept 2: Another concept that I might explore instead of AI persuasion is that of combining human consciousness with AI, as if Her‘s (2014) Theodore and Samantha shared the same body. Obviously, this combination could make humans super effective, for we would have the problem-solving skills of hyper-analytical AI. However, what would it mean to have two tenants share the same body? Especially if one can lock out the other into the subconscious? What if the AI learned of things it likes that the human doesn’t? Even if only the human has the power to turn on this “autopilot switch” that allows an AI to take over for a while until the task it is given is done (such as clean the house, finish homework or even eat a plate of disgusting food and pretend to like it), what if this AI evolved to the point of having its own wants and needs?