#writingprompt an AI begins subtly to communicate with humans through carefully selected "captcha" images
@kara_dreamer ◾ They _do_. It's just childlike, domain-limited “communication”, mediated by their masters.
“Please enter the words from this image.” = “Can you show me how to read?”
“Please select all the squares with a street sign.” = “Can you help me learn to drive?”
(Half-serious.)
@chalcedony I like this idea. it fits in with some half-formed ideas that I've had about how, if we regard consciousness as a property of communications networks, then that doesn't exclude the possibility of very slowly acting "brains" operating at very low bandwidth, on a network of nodes connected by slow and indirect means
@kara_dreamer ◾ I admit I don't quite understand the connection, partly because “low-bandwidth” does not really describe a Google datacenter.
@chalcedony eh, I think the point's too muddled to repair so I'll drop it
@kara_dreamer please select all the images that say HELP
HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP HELP