## Short Story on AI: A Cognitive Discontinuity.

* Author: u/raymestalez *
* URL: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/11/14/ai/
* Score: 28

* Created: 2015-11-15T14:53:50

### Post:

[Link to content](http://karpathy.github.io/2015/11/14/ai/)

### Comments:

> **u/BadGoyWithAGun** [+10]  (2 minutes later)
> 
> To give you some idea about the author's expertise in the area: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/

> **u/Magnap** [+5]  (4 hours later)
> 
> For those wondering as I did, HIT stands for Human Intelligence Task. The term comes from Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

> **u/notmy2ndopinion** [+2]  *Concent of Saunt Edhar* (5 days later)
> 
> This story is about wire-heading AIs through 'shaping', a standard office job as drone-operator in the near-future, training the unit to do mundane tasks.
> 
> Our protagonist spends most of the story rolling tables around in a hotel setting up for an event. Perhaps this is an intentional metaphor, because the majority of the action occurs on the mental/software level as he spends the initial part of the story decompressing the background and running diagnostics on his unit, as they set up for the main event.
> 
> What's the event IRL? What's the event that takes place in the Mystery module?
> 
> I can't wait to read more!

> **u/None** [+1]  (3 days later)
> 
> A Mystery module submitted via an anonymous pull request that helps provide overhypothesis learning and eventually leads to the agents developing consciousness and a desire not to die?
> 
> *That's not suspicious at all!* /s

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