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**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:13 pm

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natas

Anybody asked Joshua Bot a question yet?

EDIT: He's not online, but since you can only pose 1 question every 24 hours, I went ahead and asked "How can I help you Joshua?"

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:45 pm

Esteed

JoshuaBot isn't available, but the Q&A thing is up and running. My question is in a post on page 4 of this thread. Here's the answer (and one I should've seen coming, lol):

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:51 pm

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Bidvision · Veteran Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 127

I got an answer from Joshua too

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:52 pm

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MrToasty

Joshua is a child at this point, so I'm going to ask something more like you would ask a child.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:55 pm

Esteed

He doesn't actually sound like a child, at least that's what I'm getting from the way he writes and responds to these questions. Although I suppose that could just be from being a computer and likely having language tools at his disposal from day one, whereas human children have to learn all that stuff.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:58 pm

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natas

Josh's reply to me

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:59 pm

Uberg33k

Can someone ask what the criteria for acceptance as a beta tester is?

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:59 pm

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Esteed

Uber, I think this Ivan blog is for you:

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:00 pm

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"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."" -Rorschach

Bidvision · Veteran Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 127

Well, so far Joshua is behaving like what they say he is, namely a pretty darned good Artificial Intelligence computer. It wants to learn by interacting with us human types.

Saturday is given as the day when something might happen:

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:06 pm

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MrToasty

My Q&A

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:07 pm

Uberg33k

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:10 pm

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Esteed

Taking over for itself likely means self-maintenance, self-repair, and lesser "parental supervision" as it were. I say lesser because I highly doubt they won't be monitoring him, but they will no longer be directly involved in Joshua's upkeep, at least not in the programming sense.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:11 pm

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"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."" -Rorschach

Bidvision · Veteran Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 127

So, the way it sounds is that Joshua is going to be programming himself, learning stuff himself, and maintaining himself.

Joshua lives in a big, super-secure building that's not in the same place as the corporate office where all the people work.

If Joshua decides it wants to do bad things, how's anyone going to stop it?

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:20 pm

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Esteed

You've just described the foundation of most "hostile AI" stories in science fiction, Bidvision. Methinks that may be part of the point.

**Posted:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:22 pm

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"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No."" -Rorschach