Re: How to make money fast (in science fiction)

In rec.arts.sf.science Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-04-03, Jonathan L Cunningham <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Michael Ash <mike@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> If you're chatting with someone over a realtime voice link, just
>>> have your massively superhuman AI build up a model of the other
>>> guy's brain, then use it to construct his responses in advance.
> 
> I think if we're at that level of superhuman AI, the participants in
> the conversation probably won't be human in today's sense.

I think it's possible, if not necessarily likely. Iain M. Banks's Culture 
keeps identifiable humans around even in the presence of AI so advanced it

can't be properly understood just how advanced it is.

> Don't forget to model the universe of things they're interacting with
> while they talk, though.  In general, that's quite likely going to
> include equipment of equal or greater processing power than your
> communication system.

Right, which is why the prediction won't be perfect and will have to make 
allowances for such things. If you record both sides and play them back 
later you'll find a lot of differences, although with the same ultimate 
content.

> In any case I very much doubt they'd be happy about someone else
> pefectly modelling their mental processes.

Hundreds of years ago you might have said that people would be unhappy 
about having a magic box reproduce their voice. Tastes change, although I 
certainly sympathize with this attitude.

-- 
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software