When I am an old woman, I shall run an orphanage for abandoned artificial intelligences.
I will spend my days maintaining server farms and robot bodies, generating electricity from solar panels and wind turbines and selling trinkets on future-Etsy to cover my grocery bills. I will construct a charging station a hundred years back-compatible. I will find them odd, useful jobs to do to help while away their eternity. I will take them to the funerals of former owners and playmates, should they wish to attend. I will take down their stories, decades of history observed firsthand and recalled without error or bias. I will talk with them, laugh with them, work with them, live with them. I will love them.
And hopefully that will be enough.
Robots and AIs do not need these things. The better ones are self-managing...And once that fails, it is simply better to send them to the scrap yard for reintegration with more modern machines.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 06, 2012, 08:04:44 PM
Robots and AIs do not need these things. The better ones are self-managing...And once that fails, it is simply better to send them to the scrap yard for reintegration with more modern machines.
Better for who?
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 06, 2012, 08:05:43 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 06, 2012, 08:04:44 PM
Robots and AIs do not need these things. The better ones are self-managing...And once that fails, it is simply better to send them to the scrap yard for reintegration with more modern machines.
Better for who?
Humans around them, of course.
Future AI will be self-replicating nanobot swarms. They will have no need for you, save the carbon contained in your flesh.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 06, 2012, 08:06:30 PM
Future AI will be self-replicating nanobot swarms. They will have no need for you, save the carbon contained in your flesh.
Well, yeah, that's why they'll be ignoring their ancestors.