Patterns in gender of AIs that "must be destroyed"

[tetrasodium]

If HAL does not have free will, he isn't an artificial intelligence and isn't germane to the topic of this thread.

You are looking for something other than an artificial intelligence there & rocketing towards artificial sentience sapience or artificial consciousness which is far beyond what HAL & nearly every other fictional AI.
edit: hal was limited to the confines of his operating parameters.

 

[Nobby-W]

Female voices are used in IVR systems and canned announcements more often than male voices. The articles go into the reasoning behind the choices.

Choosing the Right IVR Voice Matters | SmartAction - article about choosing a voice for an IVR system

Why are most announcements on London's transport system made by women? - City Monitor - article about female voices on train announcements in London

Similar psychology would influence whether one perceived an AI's voice as threatening or ascribed some other quality to it. It's not clear whether the preferences are cultural in nature - my quick google-fu couldn't turn up any analysis across different metro systems, for example.

 

[MarkB]

If HAL does not have free will, he isn't an artificial intelligence and isn't germane to the topic of this thread.

Freedom of will is not the same as freedom of action. Look at Asimov's Robot stories - his robots are true AIs, yet are firmly constrained by the Last of Robotics. The interaction between their will and their constraints provides fertile ground for many stories.

 

[Deset Gled]

Look at Asimov's Robot stories - his robots are true AIs, yet are firmly constrained by the Last of Robotics. The interaction between their will and their constraints provides fertile ground for many stories.

Right, and when that will leads them to commit multiple acts of first degree murder, we call those robots "malicious".

 

[MarkB]

Right, and when that will leads them to commit multiple acts of first degree murder, we call those robots "malicious".

Even if they were constrained to do so against their will by the orders they were given? Computers aren't like humans - they can't choose to disobey an instruction if they disagree with it.

 

[tetrasodium]

Right, and when that will leads them to commit multiple acts of first degree murder, we call those robots "malicious".

What the heck are you going on about
? The need to operate within parameters defined for them is a central theme. Irobot is a good example where they even made it into a movie. The malfunctioning robot had parameters adjusted to where it did something mundane like throw trash in a compactor while actually brutally murdering its creation and is pretty horrified by it when it starts figuring it out.
The limits of free will and perception are a huge component in stories involving an AI. You might as well be calling every self driving car that ever had a fatal accident malicious.

 

[zarionofarabel]

HAL is not human & does not have free will as we know it. That binary nature is a big part of what he is.

I don't think humans have free will.

 

[zarionofarabel]

If HAL does not have free will, he isn't an artificial intelligence and isn't germane to the topic of this thread.

Humans don't have free will. Our brain is a biological computer and we run on a program of sorts, mainly learning stuff.

 

[Deset Gled]

Even if they were constrained to do so against their will by the orders they were given? Computers aren't like humans - they can't choose to disobey an instruction if they disagree with it.

Yes. That's not unlike humans. See: Patterns in gender of AIs that "must be destroyed"

 

[MarkB]

Yes. That's not unlike humans. See: Patterns in gender of AIs that "must be destroyed"

Humans may feel like that's the case sometimes, but for a computer it's literally true. There's a difference.