I dreamed I was a narrow AI
Sep. 9th, 2010 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mattbellI have a lot of unusual dreams, including Inception-like nested dreams, half-lucid dreams, dreams in which I perform psych experiments on myself, dreams in which I'm
This Monday, I dreamed something new. I dreamed that I was a narrow artificial intelligence responsible for helping people find what songs they liked (similar to Pandora). However, as a narrow AI, I wasn't fully conscious. My entire sensory experience consisted of short video snippets of people's faces as they reacted to a particular song. In my mind I had a giant multidimensional, multicolored blob that represented my collaboratively filtered mapping of the space of different songs. As I saw people, the parts of the music space that appealed to them lit up, and lights flashed that echoed the songs liked by similar people. I could then send them songs they would probably like, and I had to do this for lots of people in rapid succession.
After a while, I started getting other sensory input. People started asking me what movies they liked, and my mind was a blank. I had no idea how to respond. They asked me other questions too, and I could tell it was urgent, but my entire world consisted of music and I didn't know how to respond. Then, I found myself in my loft, and the entire visual world was uninterpretable. Eventually I came to my senses and became me again.
I sometimes experience partial consciousness in my dreams, but I've never quite had the experience of being an AI.
This Monday, I dreamed something new. I dreamed that I was a narrow artificial intelligence responsible for helping people find what songs they liked (similar to Pandora). However, as a narrow AI, I wasn't fully conscious. My entire sensory experience consisted of short video snippets of people's faces as they reacted to a particular song. In my mind I had a giant multidimensional, multicolored blob that represented my collaboratively filtered mapping of the space of different songs. As I saw people, the parts of the music space that appealed to them lit up, and lights flashed that echoed the songs liked by similar people. I could then send them songs they would probably like, and I had to do this for lots of people in rapid succession.
After a while, I started getting other sensory input. People started asking me what movies they liked, and my mind was a blank. I had no idea how to respond. They asked me other questions too, and I could tell it was urgent, but my entire world consisted of music and I didn't know how to respond. Then, I found myself in my loft, and the entire visual world was uninterpretable. Eventually I came to my senses and became me again.
I sometimes experience partial consciousness in my dreams, but I've never quite had the experience of being an AI.
