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| 05.30.2007Uncanny AI - a possibility
David Hayward's discussion of AI as similar to the behaviour of the autistic struck me as rather clever, but let's fold that back on itself.
Given that many autistic people are fundamentally unable to interpret social cues, and thus approach socialisation in a much more logical and methodical way than most people, wouldn't that make autistic designers the perfect people to design AI?
They've spent their whole lives systematically trying to understand how other people think and behave (because it isn't at all intuitive to them), so they have the best basis from which to design such behaviour into a computer-generated character.
While a typicaly game designer may well naturally know a lot more about how people think and behave, a designer with Asperger's syndrome will know exactly the extent of his knowledge of people's thought and behaviour, and know exactly how he pieced it all together.-Evan Rodwell
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