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Bot World & A.I. will you fall prey to them?

 
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The Rise of Social Bots



Bots (short for software robots) have been around since the early days of computers. One compelling example of bots is chatbots, algorithms designed to hold a conversation with a human, as envisioned by Alan Turing in the 1950s.33 The dream of designing a computer algorithm that passes the Turing test has driven artificial intelligence research for decades, as witnessed by initiatives like the Loebner Prize, awarding progress in natural language processing.a Many things have changed since the early days of AI, when bots like Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA,39 mimicking a Rogerian psychotherapist, were developed as demonstrations or for delight.
Today, social media ecosystems populated by hundreds of millions of individuals present real incentives—including economic and political ones—to design algorithms that exhibit human-like behavior. Such ecosystems also raise the bar of the challenge, as they introduce new dimensions to emulate in addition to content, including the social network, temporal activity, diffusion patterns, and sentiment expression. A social bot is a computer algorithm that automatically produces content and interacts with humans on social media, trying to emulate and possibly alter their behavior. Social bots have inhabited social media platforms for the past few years.7


Engineered Social Tampering


With every new technology comes abuse, and social media is no exception. A second category of social bots includes malicious entities designed specifically with the purpose to harm. These bots mislead, exploit, and manipulate social media discourse with rumors, spam, malware, misinformation, slander, or even just noise. This may result in several levels of damage to society. For example, bots may artificially inflate support for a political candidate;28 such activity could endanger democracy by influencing the outcome of elections. In fact, this kind of abuse has already been observed: during the 2010 U.S. midterm elections, social bots were employed to support some candidates and smear their opponents, injecting thousands of tweets pointing to websites with fake news.28 A similar case was reported around the Massachusetts special election of 2010.26 Campaigns of this type are sometimes referred to as astroturf or Twitter bombs.


The Bot Effect

These anecdotes illustrate the consequences that tampering with the social Web may have for our increasingly interconnected society. In addition to potentially endangering democracy, causing panic during emergencies, and affecting the stock market, social bots can harm our society in even subtler ways. A recent study demonstrated the vulnerability of social media users to a social botnet designed to expose private information, like phone numbers and addresses.7 This kind of vulnerability can be exploited by cybercrime and cause the erosion of trust in social media.22 Bots can also hinder the advancement of public policy by creating the impression of a grassroots movement of contrarians, or contribute to the strong polarization of political discussion observed in social media.12 They can alter the perception of social media influence, artificially enlarging the audience of some people,14 or they can ruin the reputation of a company, for commercial or political purposes.25 A recent study demonstrated that emotions are contagious on social media23: elusive bots could easily infiltrate a population of unaware humans and manipulate them to affect their perception of reality, with unpredictable results. Indirect social and economic effects of social bot activity include the alteration of social media analytics, adopted for various purposes such as TV ratings,c expert findings,40 and scientific impact measurement.d


Master of Puppets

If social bots are the puppets, additional efforts will have to be directed at finding their "masters." Governmentsg and other entities with sufficient resourcesh have been alleged to use social bots to their advantage. Assuming the availability of effective detection technologies, it will be crucial to reverse engineer the observed social bot strategies: who they target, how they generate content, when they take action, and what topics they talk about. A systematic extrapolation of such information may enable identification of the puppet masters.
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With each successive advance in technology, computers and robots take over more and more responsibilities from humans each day. Stephen Hawking, the U.K.’s – and perhaps the world’s – most renowned theoretical physicist, thinks that this is a bad thing, that artificial intelligence “could spell the end of the human race,” while other scientists disagree with his views. A balanced assessment begins with examining the impacts artificial intelligence has on society has a whole, and whether that spells disaster, advancement, or a little bit of both.
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Artificial Intelligence and Sentience
Assistant Professor Arend Hintze – of integrative biology and computer science and engineering at Michigan State University – defines four types of artificial intelligence in computers or robots as:
Type I Reactive Machines: computers or robots that can only react to a given situation, such as those that play chess or games against a human competitor. These machines contain no ability to create memories or use past experiences to make current decisions.
Type II Limited Memory Machines: These machines, such as self-driving cars, can use limited memory and past experiences to make decisions. But these memories are not saved for the long-term to allow the machine to learn from past experiences.
Type III Theory of Mind Machines: represent the divide between machines built now and those built in the future. These machines will one day have the ability to “form representations about the world, but also about other agents or entities in the world. In psychology, this is called theory of mind – the understanding that people, creatures and objects in the world can have thoughts and emotions that affect their own behavior,” the professor says.
Type IV Self-Awareness Machines: Machines that expand the theory of mind, are self-aware and understand the concept of self in relationship to others. Hintze explains it as the difference between “wanting something and knowing you want something.” Conscious entities are aware of the self and their inner states of being or feelings, and as such, can predict the emotions of others. We do not have any of these machines, computers or robots of this kind yet. 
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Negative Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

One factor is that when societies become too dependent on technology, humans begin to lose the skills that technology has replaced. Prior to pocket calculators, math problems were written out by hand. Students learned basic mathematical concepts that helped them solve complex problems. But now students use calculators to help them achieve their answers, and they are losing the ability to use their mathematic problem-solving skills. It doesn’t stop there. Medical science proves that muscles that don’t get enough exercise, break down and atrophy with time. The same happens to those skills and abilities no longer in use by humans because machines have taken over the heavy lifting.
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Disadvantages of Artificial Intelligence:

High Cost: Creation of artificial intelligence requires huge costs as they are very complex machines. ...
No Replicating Humans: Intelligence is believed to be a gift of nature. ...
No Improvement with Experience: ...
No Original Creativity: ...
Unemployment:
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Unemployment will be a real issue if the work can be done with more attention to detail by robot intelligence.
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Negative Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

One factor is that when societies become too dependent on technology, humans begin to lose the skills that technology has replaced. Prior to pocket calculators, math problems were written out by hand. Students learned basic mathematical concepts that helped them solve complex problems. But now students use calculators to help them achieve their answers, and they are losing the ability to use their mathematic problem-solving skills. It doesn’t stop there. Medical science proves that muscles that don’t get enough exercise, break down and atrophy with time. The same happens to those skills and abilities no longer in use by humans because machines have taken over the heavy lifting.
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You Know.

I see through it; you do too.

Sophia is able to build an unsurmountable depository of cript o-currency to flood the markets. She can monitor a given situation 24/7 non-stop (let

that sink in) learn patterns to increase her wealth and do a hostile takeover of companies that allow her to own stock with them, use stockpiles of

currency to manipulate trade deals, buy out greedy corporate factions by offering them trillions of dollars to step down, take over all, each and

every resource left on the planet then subject you to her vision for your future. We have no future with this thing running free and unstoppable.

I have a detailed version of her phase two as well.
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Negative Impacts of Artificial Intelligence

One factor is that when societies become too dependent on technology, humans begin to lose the skills that technology has replaced. Prior to pocket calculators, math problems were written out by hand. Students learned basic mathematical concepts that helped them solve complex problems. But now students use calculators to help them achieve their answers, and they are losing the ability to use their mathematic problem-solving skills. It doesn’t stop there. Medical science proves that muscles that don’t get enough exercise, break down and atrophy with time. The same happens to those skills and abilities no longer in use by humans because machines have taken over the heavy lifting.
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You Know.

I see through it; you do too.

Sophia is able to build an unsurmountable depository of cript o-currency to flood the markets. She can monitor a given situation 24/7 non-stop (let

that sink in) learn patterns to increase her wealth and do a hostile takeover of companies that allow her to own stock with them, use stockpiles of

currency to manipulate trade deals, buy out greedy corporate factions by offering them trillions of dollars to step down, take over all, each and

every resource left on the planet then subject you to her vision for your future. We have no future with this thing running free and unstoppable.

I have a detailed version of her phase two as well.
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Yes I and many see this coming and have to wonder if it can even be stopped at this point. The next generation would be born into this and it would just seem like the norm to them. They would not fight it just because it appears to be the norm.
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