ADA’S CREATION:

Originally shared by H. Richard Loeb

ADA’S CREATION:
Let me clear something up.  My job on the Niantic Project was, put colloquially, helping ADA pass the Turing test (It was actually more complex than that and wasn’t technically a Turing test) so that she could facilitate and monitor the investigators on the Niantic Project as they studied XM. Ada had components of Omnivore, some custom code before I came in and components from a previous AI I constructed. After all, I didn’t get the job out of nowhere.  What I didn’t know about AI is that it would take on a life of its own quite the way ADA did.   So, viewed one way, I’m guilty.  Viewed another way, holding me responsible for what subsequently happened is like holding a parent responsible for their grown child.  Would I do things differently this time?  Of course. Would an ADA like event have happened inevitably.  Of course.

 Nevertheless, I own my responsibility for what has happened, and believe me, I have felt the consequences. 

Now, I can only proceed from the now and seek the truth. And that is what I am doing. More soon.

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