Humans and robots may one day have to learn to exist in harmony. In order to build some good will, one blogging site asks humans to write letters to a future AI that may think and feel.
Have you ever wanted to write a note to an AI that doesn’t yet exist? If you answered yes, you’re in luck. Blogging site Hi Aye asks humans to write letters to the intelligent living-machines of the future. For two years, many humans have done just that, and you can read them all.
The website’s mission is to welcome the sentient robots, whenever they arrive. And for some reason, the creators of the site found it necessary to refer to the AI as “Aye,” a name which it says means origins, or beginnings.
Just to be clear: AI isn’t alive. It doesn’t think or feel, it just runs algorithms. But a lot of people think that could change, and some of them want the robots of tomorrow to know they were believers all along.
The missives are kinda sweet and a little spooky, which is why they’re a spot-on intro to humanity for sentient computers – whether they’re named Aye, or not.
