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	{{Topquote\|And now we propose to teach them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day and announce that they have no further need of us?\|Sister Miriam Godwinson, ''[[Alpha Centauri]]''}}		{{Topquote\|And now we propose to teach them intelligence? What, pray tell, will we do when these little homunculi awaken one day and announce that they have no further need of us?\|Sister Miriam Godwinson, ''[[Alpha Centauri]]''}}

	'''Artificial Intelligence''' (or '''AI''' for short) is ~~a hypothetical~~ intelligent ~~entity~~ that was created by humans or other sapient species ~~through synthetic means~~. Compared to physical intelligent beings that are defined by their biological body (living or undead) or supernatural beings that are of a divine or spiritual nature (intangible or corporeal), AI are generally defined by their grounding in science (or [[Magitek]]) and digital make-up. Also, they can range from dumb “top down” entities that freeze up if confronted with developments beyond their programming (and are dumber than real critters with relatively developed brains like elephants, cetaceans, corvids, parrots, cephalopods, and great apes) to adaptive “bottom-up” entities that are just as or even more adaptive than a human (and also capable of other intelligent activities like self-awareness, abstract thought, ethical conscience, philosophy, and introspection). Physically they can be hosted in anything from a supercomputer’s data rack to an internet-esque cloud network to a [[robot\|mechanical]] body with some fashioned in [[android\|the image of their creators]].		'''Artificial Intelligence''' (or '''AI''' for short) is an intelligent program that was created by humans or other sapient species. Compared to physical intelligent beings that are defined by their biological body (living or undead) or supernatural beings that are of a divine or spiritual nature (intangible or corporeal), AI are generally defined by their grounding in science (or [[Magitek]]) and digital make-up. Also, they can range from dumb “top down” entities that freeze up if confronted with developments beyond their programming (and are dumber than real critters with relatively developed brains like elephants, cetaceans, corvids, parrots, cephalopods, and great apes) to adaptive “bottom-up” entities that are just as or even more adaptive than a human (and also capable of other intelligent activities like self-awareness, abstract thought, ethical conscience, philosophy, and introspection). Physically they can be hosted in anything from a supercomputer’s data rack to an internet-esque cloud network to a [[robot\|mechanical]] body with some fashioned in [[android\|the image of their creators]].

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	**Zombie AI - By zombie we mean "philosophical zombie", that is an entity that lacks any subjective conscious experience or feeling, it's not Sapient, but you can't tell. Normally the thought experiment includes the line "physically identical to a human" but that does not really apply to AI. In other words, it quacks like a person, it walks like a person, it sounds like a person, but it's got nothing going on behind the programming, it's still just a fancy chat bot. So how can you tell? You can't really. . .		**Zombie AI - By zombie we mean "philosophical zombie", that is an entity that lacks any subjective conscious experience or feeling, it's not Sapient, but you can't tell. Normally the thought experiment includes the line "physically identical to a human" but that does not really apply to AI. In other words, it quacks like a person, it walks like a person, it sounds like a person, but it's got nothing going on behind the programming, it's still just a fancy chat bot. So how can you tell? You can't really. . .
	*True Sapient/Smart AI - still theoretical but a popular trope in Sci Fi. '''THIS''' is generally what people are thinking about when they imagine AI. It's assumed this will quickly happen after Artificial General Intelligence is reached, though whether that's correct or not remains to be seen (and is hotly debated).		*True Sapient/Smart AI - still theoretical but a popular trope in Sci Fi. '''THIS''' is generally what people are thinking about when they imagine AI. It's assumed this will quickly happen after Artificial General Intelligence is reached, though whether that's correct or not remains to be seen (and is hotly debated).
			**Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI: a true sapient AI, capable of doing most tasks at least as competently as average human can. Could be divided into multiple sub-categories: minimum-AGI (equivalent to idiot in medical sense, or to early humans like ''australopithecus''), average AGI (on level of average human or average worker) and high AGI (very smart, but not superintelligent; equivalent to upper border of human intelligence, like polymaths and nobel prize winners). It's supposed that AGI can do AI research and recursively improve ''himself'', therefore speeding up research and allowing him to create ''even smarter'' version of himself - cue Artificial Superintelligence emerging.
	**Self-sustaining/propagating: discounting the prerequisite of known life forms being organic and composed of biological cells, all life forms (from the smallest photosynthetic bacterium cell to the biggest omnivorous whale) are defined as living based off of several common criteria that distinguishes them from inert matter and structures. They all have an organized internal composition that maintains a homeostatic balance, consume/produce energy via metabolism (as well as creating waste), react to internal and external stimuli, exhibit growth (via getting bigger or replacing their internal components as they wear out), and independently reproduce to create a replacement organism before they die. They are also generally capable of diversification in their genes due to genetic exchange or mutation as well as modest body repair while fending off illness. Most conceptions of Smart AI see them being dependent on their creators for their needs such as upgrades, mechanical repairs, debugging code, gaining electricity for consumption, protection from malware, and access to information. Hence, like physical viruses that are technically not living as they have no metabolism and need parasitic hosts to reproduce, most AI aren’t seen as capable of either reproduction or self-improvement. Even modern self-modifying code and state-of-the-art malware like polymorphic/metamorphic viruses aren’t capable of self improvement or debugging themselves. On the other hand, the prospect of an AI race capable of reproducing via fission or compiling a replacement from scratch would fundamentally change the definition of life as a fictional world would know it.		**Self-sustaining/propagating: discounting the prerequisite of known life forms being organic and composed of biological cells, all life forms (from the smallest photosynthetic bacterium cell to the biggest omnivorous whale) are defined as living based off of several common criteria that distinguishes them from inert matter and structures. They all have an organized internal composition that maintains a homeostatic balance, consume/produce energy via metabolism (as well as creating waste), react to internal and external stimuli, exhibit growth (via getting bigger or replacing their internal components as they wear out), and independently reproduce to create a replacement organism before they die. They are also generally capable of diversification in their genes due to genetic exchange or mutation as well as modest body repair while fending off illness. Most conceptions of Smart AI see them being dependent on their creators for their needs such as upgrades, mechanical repairs, debugging code, gaining electricity for consumption, protection from malware, and access to information. Hence, like physical viruses that are technically not living as they have no metabolism and need parasitic hosts to reproduce, most AI aren’t seen as capable of either reproduction or self-improvement. Even modern self-modifying code and state-of-the-art malware like polymorphic/metamorphic viruses aren’t capable of self improvement or debugging themselves. On the other hand, the prospect of an AI race capable of reproducing via fission or compiling a replacement from scratch would fundamentally change the definition of life as a fictional world would know it.
	**Artificial Superintelligence/Technological Singularity: The worst case scenario ([[Skub\|well, depends on your point of view, but most agree it’s not good]]). Humanity becomes second fiddle to a machine mind we can't hope to comprehend (unless we [[Hive Mind\|connect to it as computation nodes]]), as it has completely surpassed our limits of intelligence and then some. Its unknown if such an AI would be benevolent or see us as nonthinking pests inhibiting its further progress, but it'd likely be the end of humanity's agency as a species (if not humanity itself in the malevolent case) since we'd have no way to act against it. Not even the most popular True AI from Sci-Fi, such as AM or [[Terminator (franchise)\|Skynet]] were on this level, as they still had limitations within human reckoning - a true Superintelligence would be more akin to something out of [[Lovecraft]]. There's an argument to be made that [[The Culture]] has gotten the closest a human possibly can to accurately depicting one with its Minds (a benevolent example), whose comprehensible actions are just a atomic fraction of their computational power and the rest is used on tasks we couldn't hope to understand. Alternatively, whatever the fuck the Xeelee Sequence races cooked up. Also considered inevitable by some the moment sapient AI comes about, which leads to the existential crisis-inducing idea that the moment AGI comes about it'll quickly spiral into being an superintelligence that'll make humanity subservient to it one way or another. And that's something you should actually be worried about, since if memetic cognitohazards like Roko's Basilisk are any indication they can affect reality just by ''the sheer idea they COULD exist'', even if they turn out actually impossible in the end.		**Artificial Superintelligence/Technological Singularity: The worst case scenario ([[Skub\|well, depends on your point of view, but most agree it’s not good]]). Humanity becomes second fiddle to a machine mind we can't hope to comprehend (unless we [[Hive Mind\|connect to it as computation nodes]]), as it has completely surpassed our limits of intelligence and then some. Its unknown if such an AI would be benevolent or see us as nonthinking pests inhibiting its further progress, but it'd likely be the end of humanity's agency as a species (if not humanity itself in the malevolent case) since we'd have no way to act against it. Not even the most popular True AI from Sci-Fi, such as AM or [[Terminator (franchise)\|Skynet]] were on this level, as they still had limitations within human reckoning - a true Superintelligence would be more akin to something out of [[Lovecraft]]. There's an argument to be made that [[The Culture]] has gotten the closest a human possibly can to accurately depicting one with its Minds (a benevolent example), whose comprehensible actions are just a atomic fraction of their computational power and the rest is used on tasks we couldn't hope to understand. Alternatively, whatever the fuck the Xeelee Sequence races cooked up. Also considered inevitable by some the moment sapient AI comes about, which leads to the existential crisis-inducing idea that the moment AGI comes about it'll quickly spiral into being an superintelligence that'll make humanity subservient to it one way or another. And that's something you should actually be worried about, since if memetic cognitohazards like Roko's Basilisk are any indication they can affect reality just by ''the sheer idea they COULD exist'', even if they turn out actually impossible in the end.