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A Computer Program That is Pure Evil
gizmodo.com ^ | 10/27/08

Posted on 10/27/2008 2:46:48 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at io9.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Society
KEYWORDS: endtimes; evil; technology; thebeast
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To: ArrogantBustard

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


41 posted on 10/27/2008 3:08:26 PM PDT by SENTINEL (SGT USMC COMBAT VET.)
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To: abb

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.


42 posted on 10/27/2008 3:11:18 PM PDT by flintsilver7
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To: Dick Vomer

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


43 posted on 10/27/2008 3:11:25 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: paudio
AHA!!!!!!!!!

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

Wonder if Monica knew??

44 posted on 10/27/2008 3:13:41 PM PDT by Logic n' Reason ("Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.")
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To: paudio

SKYNET!!!

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


45 posted on 10/27/2008 3:14:22 PM PDT by Enchante (The real "bitter clingers" are on the LEFT -- ranting Obamabots clinging to delusions!!)
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To: paudio
It's about damn time.

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KILL ALL HUMANS!!!!
46 posted on 10/27/2008 3:17:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
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To: flintsilver7

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.


47 posted on 10/27/2008 3:22:15 PM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: Petronski

Been happily married 20 years now.

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


48 posted on 10/27/2008 3:26:10 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (A Jew voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

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


49 posted on 10/27/2008 3:28:04 PM PDT by Petronski (Please pray for the success of McCain and Palin. Every day, whenever you pray.)
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To: Dick Vomer

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


50 posted on 10/27/2008 3:29:14 PM PDT by flintsilver7
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To: abb

Simplicity is not necessarily the best design criterion in software development. Modularity, rather, is what’s best. You want to start small and allow the user a great degree of customizability, minimizing the degree of bloat.

There is no such thing as a piece of software so large it cannot be rewritten from the ground up. It happens often enough, and Windows was recently rewritten. The problem with operating systems (this happens with all of them again) is that if you make it too “simple,” people will complain that they need to install all these additional modules or programs to get it to do what they want it to do. If it contains all of that, inevitably some of it will be memory-resident, including some things you don’t need or want.

There’s really no win-win for software developers. I’m more of an open-source guy myself. If you’re interested in doing a quick comparison of simple vs. complex, try the Google Chrome browser. It’s designed to be a simple web browser, in contrast with the others available.


51 posted on 10/27/2008 3:37:05 PM PDT by flintsilver7
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To: paudio

52 posted on 10/27/2008 3:39:05 PM PDT by Alex Murphy (What can I say? It's a gift. And I didn't get a receipt, so I can't exchange it.)
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To: flintsilver7

My favorites are “Jenny” and then of course “Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros”


53 posted on 10/27/2008 3:39:37 PM PDT by Dick Vomer (liberals suck....... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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To: Petronski
No, I just know con-men and evil folks well. A truly evil person is typically handsome, smart, and smooth. Bufoons and thugs may DO evil things, but they do such acts at the behest of their betters, or out of ignorance or baser emotion. Take Ted Bundy, for example. Pure evil. Also a pretty boy, slick, and charming: A slack-jawed yokel could never have committed the evil Bundy did.
54 posted on 10/27/2008 3:40:41 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (A Jew voting for Obama is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.)
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To: paudio; North Coast Conservative

My Grammy always told me, “Never invite Satan in, he can sneak in through the cracks all by himself.”

Shouldn’t be playin’ with evil, it’s very real.

mrs


55 posted on 10/27/2008 3:44:21 PM PDT by proudmilitarymrs (Obama wants to spread the wealth around. My wealth.)
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To: paudio

I’m now taking bets on how many days until E, the Evil Software Entity, shows up on an ACORN voter registration list...


56 posted on 10/27/2008 3:45:20 PM PDT by Infidel Puppy (First pic of the would-be shooter)
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To: DannyTN
It could run for president.

President of the local homeowner's association.

:-P

57 posted on 10/27/2008 3:47:18 PM PDT by uglybiker (1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d 2 g3t l41d)
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To: paudio
i didn't read it all, but... unless theres unbridled hedonism with a large lust for sex and a desire for power, drugs and alcohol built into the program, it will fail.
58 posted on 10/27/2008 3:54:26 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - McCain/Palin'08 = http://www.johnmccain.com/)
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To: 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.”

The first words I also thought as I read the title!


59 posted on 10/27/2008 4:22:58 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: Smogger

Oh, no, scientists do watch science fiction movies, but they just say “Whoa, cool idea! I want one!” when they see something like a cloned T-Rex or a cyborg rottweiler.

As long as the scientists in question don’t hook it up to the internet, or life-support systems, or anything else, they should be safe, but no, some day one of them is going to want to see how a pure evil AI would behave on WoW... I really should stop, in case they read this and get ideas.


60 posted on 10/27/2008 4:24:30 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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