A Computer Program That is Pure Evil

gizmodo.com ^ | 10/27/08

[paudio]

A group of scientists is building the world’s most evil computer program. This isn't a B-movie setup: A team at Rensselaer Institute’s AI & Reasoning Lab is bringing personified evil to virtual life in the hope that they'll unlock the secrets of human morality. The researchers have given their creation a face and a name, and quiz it daily, using its answers to further blacken its hideous character.

[paudio]

What if the program is really evil that it tries to redistribute wealth without people realizing it?

[rabscuttle385]

Lol, I love the Skynet comments at the link.

[DannyTN]

It could run for president.

It's not like we have the right to challenge it and make it prove that it's human.

[allmost]

This would say a lot about the designer’s mentalities. If given the resources what would you make?

[KarlInOhio]

and quiz it daily, using its answers to further blacken its hideous character.

Are they quizzing it on whether it is a Marxist? (Oops, they said blacken in a bad way... off the Alinsky camps for reeducation with the.)

[ArrogantBustard]

This would apppear to be the face they have given their program.

No comment ...

[beethovenfan]

So much easier to just read the Bible.

[abb]

Microsoft did this a good while back. It’s called Vista. Their Millennium Edition didn’t do the trick.

[Graybeard58]

in the hope that they'll unlock the secrets of human morality.

No secret, all they need do is open and read a Bible.

[reagan_fanatic]

God, I thought this was another Windows thread...

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

[ConservativeMind]

Steve Jobs!

[flintsilver7]

I think more accurately it reflects the character of Sid 6.7 from Virtuosity, also noted at the link. The philosophy behind Skynet was that it became self-aware and fought back against it “captors” with whatever means it had available. It’s an odd sense of “machine freedom.”

[Ancient Drive]

old news... he is called Obamamessiah.

[Lx]

It's been done:

Sid 6.7

[Smogger]

Create a pure evil AI?

Good thinking, right up there with super-intellegent killer wasps, cyborg rottweilers, and cloned dinosaurs. Proof that scientist don't watch the many science fiction movies, and that its creators have never seen Virtuosity.

[Jeff F]

Why not just use one of these guy's photos...

[South Hawthorne]

Is it QuickBooks? It's QuickBooks, isn't. That program is pure evil.

Owl_Eagle

If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.

[Ancient Drive]

looks like the fabled “Angry White Man”... bollocks.

[willgolfforfood]

I guess I'm confused.

I thought this would be about any MS program after DOS 6.0

[ViLaLuz]

How polically correct!

[MeanWestTexan]

"I'm Barack Obama, and I approve this program."

[GaryLee1990]

It could be the "Beast" that's mentioned in the book of "Revelations". Who knows.

RightWingIt.com

[flintsilver7]

Having used both, I can say ME was a horrible and mercifully short-lived piece of garbage while Vista is actually their most technically sound and reliable implementation of Windows to date.

Do you get your opinions from Apple ads?

[MeanWestTexan]

Pure evil will be pretty and sweet.

Probably attractive, but no threateningly so.

Tell you what you want to hear.

That is true evil.

[Joe 6-pack]

My God...Ben Rothelisberger is the Antichrist!

[Lando Lincoln]

Must have been a Browns fan who designed this guy. Looks like Bill Cowher.

[Ukiapah Heep]

It already exists. It's called Oracle.

[Army Air Corps]

Lemme guess, it is based on a Coleco Adam...

[Lx]

I’m using Vista 64 Enterprise and it is MS best desktop O/S to date.

It even runs with the horrendous Novell Client 32 for 64 bit.

You do need the correct hardware though. A dual core rocks with Vista.

ME was garbage, no one in the IT world that I know of bothered to implement it, went straight to Windows 2k from Windows 98 and NT 4.0.

[JRios1968]

"Will it help me get sharks with lasers on their frickin' heads?"

[Beowulf9]

And just who is paying for THIS research?

[ArrogantBustard]

Try these three ... any one of whom was a far "better" exemplar of evil than those three nitwitted thugs combined could ever hope to be.

[dfwgator]

Would you settle for ill-tempered sea bass?

[abb]

Do you get your opinions from Apple ads?

LOL! No, my post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. I had ME and indeed it was a train wreck. As far as Vista, I merely parrot what I hear from other computer users and what is often posted here.

I understand the updated versions are improved - I sure hope so.

But MS has a fatal marketing flaw by trying to dictate terms to the marketplace. That strategy can work for a time, but sooner or later the customer finds a way around it.

It is inevitable.

[JRios1968]

Would you settle for ill-tempered sea bass?

"Did you catch a DELICIOUS bass?"

[Dick Vomer]

Click here. Here is the theme song for this program

[Petronski]

Pure evil will be pretty and sweet. Probably attractive, but no threateningly so. Tell you what you want to hear. That is true evil.

When did you get divorced?

[C210N]

creation a face and a name...

[mhx]

Great, another reason for me to stop making alumni donations.

[SENTINEL]

Oh come on, that’s the face of GI Joe...What they need is the face of James Carville !

[flintsilver7]

I didn’t use Vista on my main computer for the first 18 months of its life, so I can’t really speak on the problems Vista initially saw (all operating systems have some initial problems). I do know that I haven’t had a single problem yet on my main computer, which is always nice.

I think MS has realized the error in their ways and are working to correct it. This is evidenced in the rather ironic Apple ad mocking Microsoft for spending so much on advertising.

Microsoft was placed in a tough spot because while most of the things being said about Vista were false, they were true of ME. People with experience didn’t have to stretch to believe it was possible. I remember using ME and it would crash overnight. As far as I know, the “System Idle Process” was unstable.

[OneWingedShark]

Ah, a themesong... now I wish I had speakers here at school.

[Logic n' Reason]

AHA!!!!!!!!!

So b. clintoon was actually a computer program....and a beta test to boot!

Wonder if Monica knew??

[Enchante]

SKYNET!!!

Watch out folks, the computers will take over....

[cripplecreek]

It's about damn time.



KILL ALL HUMANS!!!!

[abb]

I’m far from a computer geek and I couldn’t write a line of code if my life depended on it. But I’m told all MS stuff is so bloated that they’ll never get the programs out from under in our lifetimes.

In industry, I’ve seen manufacturing systems designed with such a degree of complexity and redundancy that they can do nothing well.

I’ve designed enough stuff in my life to know simplicity is ALWAYS the best design criterion.

And simple don’t describe MS stuff. Sooner or later someone will come along with simple, clean programs that do the same things their stuff does.

[MeanWestTexan]

Been happily married 20 years now.

And my wife is “hot” in a threatening sort of way. Teaches aerobics, kick-boxes.

[Petronski]

Don’t mind me then, I thought maybe you were waxing autobiographical.

[flintsilver7]

That’s actually my second favorite song by them (behind “Business Time”).