Kilo24 said:
I agree, with one nitpick - the current name is Dissociative Identity Disorder, not Multiple Personality Disorder.
I was going for the main strain, I could have included Seasonal Affective Disorder as well, or Dementia Praecox, but most people know it as Jekkyl/Hyde.
It's not so important that they made a computer insane, it's how they did it. By tweaking a parameter, they caused symptoms akin to schizophrenia, and can produce them reliably. That means that we can understand both schizophrenia and AI a bit better.
At least, if the study is as the media coverage presents it. I'll take a better look at it after finals, methinks.
The problem is that isn't really Schizophrenia (as that's not even properly defined), you've just got one of the basis's (sp?) of Schizoid Paranoia or Sociopathy. Most 'real' Schizophrenics have suicidal impulses brought on by their other voice's depression.
It's still a great leap forward though. Mental disorders such as Autism work along similar tracks, as far as we can tell.
To the Terminator/HAL crew though, you don't think a program capable of turning an AI into a Catatonic state isn't useful? They've been dividing by zero to try and do it for years.