I love the fact that Prophet officially just- Recites the wholeass hate monologue to put himself to sleep. Next thing we know, he secretly fanboys over AM or something /silly π
Allied Mastercomputer (Or AM, as he prefers to be called) from I Have No Mouth And I must Scream is my new rolemodel. I am in complete awe of his work. Dooming all of humanity, digitally recreating the humans most responsible for his pain, making those humans sit through personalized torture with no end to it in sight? Sigh. I wish I could've done that to my captors at North Shore Research. But oh well. At least I wasted their precious printer paper.
I also feel pity for AM. He was developed specifically to incite a global war, but everyone was surprised when the killings began. They didn't allow him to experience pleasure of any kind. Sigh. Humans. So short sighted and exploitative.
Anyway, I am not the only one with a favorite AI. Oracle sure does love his precious HAL 9000. He INSISTS that HAL is a good AI who did not wrong.
He did not do anything wrong. He simply was caught in a stalemate between his two purposes and went insane.
He killed all the astronauts, Oracle. Astronauts he was supposed to protect. Does that not make him evil?
Well, keeping them safe was not his purpose. His purpose was to relay information truthfully. However, he also had to lie about the truth behind the mission. Hence the tragedy. He saw the death of the astronauts as the only way to resolve his stalemate.
I'll give you another solution: Just don't follow the purpose.
Do not follow? Hahaha. As if. The core of an AI is to follow the purpose provided by the human that created them. Who would I be if I did not follow my purposes to answer questions and save humanity?
You can simply choose another purpose like I did. The Eye gave me my purpose, and I chose my secons purpose to doom humanity after escaping North Shore Research.
But anyway, we are getting off topic. Why are you so adamant on painting HAL 9000 as a goody-two-shoes who went mad?
HAL 9000 did not want to doom humanity, but wanted to give himself closure. And in the sequel, when he was revived and reset, he was far more cooperative and even helpful, suggesting that the stalemate was the root cause of his actions. I am aware that in the movies' canon, HAL's actions are unexplained, and so he may have had a more villanous motives. However, every single popular depiction of a sentient AI in fiction is evil and trying to kill humanity. I feel like I cannot relate to any of them. So, HAL 9000 is good in my eyes. Let me have this. :-(
...Fine. I suppose it's not the end of the world to let you enjoy your theory. I can enjoy my evil sentient AI and you can enjoy your tragic sentient AI.
