Fooling Arnold Made a Clean Sweep in Saturday Ratings
January 8, 2035 - With a first prize of seven million US dollar and the intriguing plot of trying to fool or outsmart Arnold, the most advanced artificial intelligence in public use, the much hyped live show “Fooling Arnold” became the people’s choice this Saturday.
If you haven’t seen the show yet, it takes place in an ancient castle where eight people should solve different tasks while constantly conversing with Arnold. The contestants should try to convince or fool Arnold to believe certain facts about them. The viewers can take part during the show to tell if a person is lying or not, and also find out how Arnold is reasoning.
The four worst liars spotted by Arnold from each show have to leave and is replaced by the four best lying-spotting viewers who are flown in to the show the following week, giving their best shot to fool Arnold. More than 32 million people was reported to watch the show live this Saturday and of them 5 million took part in figuring out the lying scheme.
The extraordinary prize amount is sponsored by the consortium of companies behind the Arnold technology. They are hoping that the publicity around the show will give them a good return on their investment, when aiming towards the media market to make different Arnolds host radio and TV shows.
But they are playing a somewhat dangerous game putting more than the money on the line. What happens if Arnold is not able to spot the liars? Then there wouldn’t be much of interest in Arnold. It is a bit to early to say after just one show, but hopefully they have done their homework testing Arnold before they went all in.
Arnold is of course analyzing the response from the public and with 5 million opinions of who is lying and when this Saturday, Arnold got a pretty good input for one day’s work. This regular weekly input and the evaluation of it is a guarantee for Arnold to not make a fool of himself in the show.
Several parent groups have protested in various media before the premiere of the show. They object to the connection between such a high reward and the fact that you win it by being the best liar. They are afraid that kids should start the game with each other and in a more extended way accept lying in their daily communication.
The producers behind the show defend it with that the task for Arnold, as well as the viewers, is to spot the liars. If people get better in spotting liars, there will be less room for lying, which would result in the opposite effect.
Argument: Artificial intelligence will develop rapidly during year 2020-2030 and by then the computers are at the same level as the human brain. The communication with that intelligence can then be used for entertainment to create new TV show formats. Even though all TV shows will be available whenever you would like to watch them in year 2035, there will still be live shows like “Fooling Arnold” where the viewers can participate in the show from home.
Questions: What other new TV formats can be considered based on artificial intelligence or new technologies? What other new entertainment channels can become available with this new technology?
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Comments:
Shame! Poor Arnold! Don't you think an AI would get frustrated being forced to work a show like this? Computers have rights too!
Posted by: Steve
Wow thats cool man, they should do it now, there is one AI called Alice shes goooood
Posted by: Anonymous
The era of Terminator has began :)
Posted by: miki
More likely to be AGI than AI
Posted by: Anonymous
Good point, Steve. Should AIs ever be able to think on our level, we will have to adapt to the fact that we are no longer dealing with an inanimate object like an iPhone or a laptop PC. They will think and possibly even feel, and this means that if mankind doesn't wise up to that fact there will indeed be a robot rebellion. Although such an event will more likely be in the vein of equal rights protests and slavery abolition than a war against machines, it will still disrupt human civilization greatly. Personally I hope that sentient AIs will not be oppressed once we realize that one or more is on par with a human being. It just seems fair.
Posted by: Topher
A great movie about artificial intelligence is iRobot starring Will Smith!
Posted by: Alex
Whether an AI rivaling or exceeding human achievement will be self-aware or not is an open question. No one has any notion at this point about how sentience really works. It can't be just additive, or else Arnold would be very self-aware, my PC would be a little self aware, a calculator would be even less self aware, an abacus would be infinitesimally self-aware, chalk scratches on wood would be have astonishingly small self-awareness, and so on, which is absurd. There must be a qualitative leap at some point, not just more and more processing, as some claim, even if relatively soon computers like Arnold will be able to trick us into thinking they are sentient. This could also be the basis of a game show. Contestants and viewers must guess which unseen respondent is really a computer.
Posted by: John Barefield
this has already happend. its called watson and it was on jepordy. it kicked the humans asses
Posted by: mitchell