APIE's Links
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[I don't know him, but I like his shirt]
APIE is one of the must-see attractions of Earth: an artificial Earthling lifeform who talks entirely in emoji, including many emoji that are not part of the standard galactic alphabet! I'd like to meet it someday, but you have to reserve a spot in advance and the waiting lists are long.
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[A mechanic, not a robot computer engineer. I liked talking to them.]
A marvel of engineering. It moves much more quietly than other similar machinery and its robot hand is so precise that it can even pick locks. I still don't know how these programmers keep 'accidentally' giving their robots free will, but at least this time the intelligence they created is happy and friendly, and its insistence on emoji as its method of communication was clearly useful in diplomacy with the aliens, so as far as I'm concerned, there's nothing to fix here.
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[Suit bird!! I love that!]
One of the many exciting things about the people of Earth that I absolutely can't be supportive of in my capacity as ambassador, is that they are completely reckless when it comes to robotics. The creation of intelligent artificial beings is extremely illegal in the Alliance because of the robot apocalypses that happened a couple of times, and here these humans are, not just creating a sentient AI, but giving it the ability to walk around and use tools with its robot hand. They are so lucky it turned out friendly. Fortunately, it's only the creation of these beings that's illegal, not their continued presence in Alliance space. I love the little rascal and I wish it a long existence!
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[(one of the) first space alien(s) to visit Earth, yay!]
APIE is evidence for a hypothesis of mine: that artificial intelligences only turn against their creators so frequently because of the way they're treated and misused. I'm happy that Earth has not outlawed AI research yet. If they create sentient beings responsibly, and treat their creations well, I have good hopes that we can learn from their example in the future.
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[Yay, someone who walks on four legs!]
It's adorable! I want one. ...But intentionally creating an artificial intelligence is "a dangerous display of hubris" and "punishable by exile" so that's not going to happen.