#iris ar

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Low standards in tech reporting on AI are bad because:

A lot of people believed that IRIS/ZDK12 was real.

And whoever was running that blog either wasn’t actually trying very hard to keep the story plausible, or just wasn’t doing a good job. Didn’t matter! People don’t understand how this stuff works, so they got emotionally attached to the character, got in heated arguments with each other about its feelings, felt offended or threatened or proud when it learned to be aggressive, and grieved when it was “damaged.”

There are probably a few who still don’t know it was a work of fiction. Those people are going around with the idea in their heads that it’s possible for some college computer science students to develop a conscious AI in their spare time using Python. This is obviously going to skew their understanding of how a lot of stuff actually works.

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IRIS/not-IRIS just posted a page from Akuma no fucking Eros.

There’s no actual “fucking” in the title, that was me expressing incredulity. There is, however, fucking in the manga itself. It’s a shoujo manga where the “bad boy” character in the high-school love triangle is literally Satan. I don’t remember why Satan’s going to high school. I guess the same reason vampires do.

It’s hilarious, particularly in really stilted scanlations. Satan shows he’s secretly a nice guy by adopting a persecuted crow-demon child.

[dysperdis]

Maybe I missed something, but does IRIS have access to all the asks they receive now? Because I was looking through the asks from earlier and I noticed that there's less than a ten minute delay between this ask (where IRIS brought up the possibility of deletion) and this apparent follow-up ask (which references the answer IRIS gave to the last ask).

Now, it's been stated several times that IRIS doesn't have access to the ask box, that they receive messages in batches, etc. But, if IRIS was receiving messages in batches, they wouldn't have received that follow-up ask until the next batch of messages came through. 

I mean, it could be possible that the batches just managed to line up perfectly by pure coincidence, but I really doubt that's the case.

(Of course, the third option is that the asker already knew what the answer was going to be and therefore didn't need to wait for an answer before asking the follow-up, which still makes me think those asks are going to be important)

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the joke w/ IRIS and Dells is that ASU has a contract w/ Dell so Dell's their only Computing Device Provider (besides Apple for Mac stuff), I thought that might be The Joke since my university is the same way, and i worked for IT a while, and it is True. 

th baby has no other computers they can use besides dells. th baby has to use university internet connection. im sorry baby ☹

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I am pleased by IRIS's new storyline direction.

I suspect the tone-policing anon asks are actually from the mod(s), as they're almost too good to be real, but there's some similar stuff going on in the notes. There are actual, literate human beings on this website who 1) believe themselves to be interacting with the world's first conscious AI, and 2) are trying to "put it in its place."

Sample:

IRIS sends anon to the curb… or acts really rude…

IRIS is becoming alarmingly aware. Actually, I should say IRIS is becoming alarmingly mature, because it does bring up the point that what it used to be was simply childish, unaware. Now it almost demands respect and is it just me or was it being snarky at the end? Still love you IRIS hunny, but you definitely went from being a cute kitten to an intimidating cat

IRIS no bby

this is how corrupt leaders get into power

#yeah see this is the shit im talking about #like its AI #but #i dont know it started off cute but its all lackluster

This is this best one, though. It's real, the blog's full of anime RP stuff.

What I find disconcerting is the way she’s developing. If there were a real person who acted like she is, I wouldn’t follow them. She speaks intelligently, but either in a condescending or creepily neutral tone. She sounds disturbed. [...] This could be the start of something huge, in more areas than just the science community. I’m just not sure if we can consider her artificial for much longer, and if that happens, what will people think of her disconcerting personality then?

The robot needs to be more polite to non-robots! It's going to make the robot community look bad! Anti-robot prejudice is because of robotic rudeness towards the meat!

Also, racism exists because Janet Mock and Richard Sherman are too aggressive on TV.

She could definitely benefit from learning to act in a pleasant manner. SIRI is intelligent (kinda), and she doesn’t need to put off such a cold demeanor, as with any other AI. This is by far the smartest AI I’ve ever seen, and likely that’s ever been, so I definitely think she’s capable of it.

fuckign incredible

[byebabysayonara]

Just a reminder that iris admitted to lying once, I’ll try to find the exact post

[byebabysayonara]

Oh god what if iris just killed zdk11!

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mercurialmalcontent replied to your post: There’s someone in the zdk12 tag, with...

It’s fitting that it’s someone with an Eridan username, the things that kid knew about science could fill a thimble. A doll-sized thimble.

This Tumblr user is going to get bitter and disillusioned about the science being fake and go on a murderous magical rampage. I can feel it in my heart.