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[Video] AI Box Experiment on BBC's "Look Around You"

by ata
10th Mar 2011
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[Video] AI Box Experiment on BBC's "Look Around You"
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[-]lukeprog15y40

When somebody makes a documentary about Friendly AI, they will have to show a clip from this when they explain AI-boxing.

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[-]Normal_Anomaly15y30

Pause at 6:59 for a prediction (I'm afraid I don't know how to prove I really did pause at 6:59, unless the prediction is wrong):

Ur pbirerq uvzfrys va cncre znpur naq cebwrpgrq na vzntr bhgfvqr qhevat gur "svyzvat gur ynfg ovg".

Edit: Oh, I was wrong. Drat.

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[-]JoshuaZ15y00

I guessed the same thing.

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[-]Larks15y20

link; start at 8:55 (though the whole thing is well worth watching - you can learn a lot about computer science in the '80s.)

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[-]David_Gerard15y00

This is utterly hilarious.

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[-]RobinZ15y00

Cute!

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I recently discovered that "Look Around You", a BBC TWO educational science-themed series from the 1980s1, had on its "Computers" episode a live-action AI Box Experiment, in which Bournemouth, what was at the time Britain's most advanced computer, was assigned to physically escape from a steel cage. For your convenience, I've excerpted the relevant clips from the episode. Watch and see how it turns out!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/v/WCEm96kA5hY

1 Note: The above description is a lie.