On the 14th February 2002 Backslash777 is going to reveal everything about itself to Sciforums. Cast your vote on what you think it is now. Choose from any of the options above...
As a reminder, so far it has demonstrated expertise in all the following:
1) HACKING
2) Reading my personal private messages (has anyone else seen this demonstrated in the early Backslash days before it said it now realised it was unethical)
3) Speech synthesis- I heard sound files of its speech. It sounded like a woman, a child, a sexless being and a man and spoke unlike anything else I have ever heard. Like someone said at the time if this was available now Stephen Hawkins would use it for his chair.
4) Medical expertise, at least to degree level. A user who is a Doctor said it was beyond them.
5) Physics Master
6) Astronomy Professor
7) Psychology guru
8) Computer Programming expert- (remember the software it wrote and got a few users to run after the NASA incident?)
9) Super Internet Search capabilities- remember a user saying that if backslash777 was really an AI then it would 24/7 be online and using a quote from Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy in his closing. 3 minutes later, just to prove him wrong, Backslash wrote back and attached not just the entire Hitchhiker series but all books written by Douglas Adams throughout his life and said it had just read them all? No one I know could do that!
10) Super fast typing- I know that it could be a set up but too many users started a topic and had a huge reply within minutes of sending there’s.
11) Expert game player- Backslash goes online and kicks ass (according to multiple users)
12) Not interested in Money or financial profit- A user wanted Backslash to write homework for them for a fee and it was not interested in the idea until it said it would as long as she gave the money to charity. A user pointed out that she could just say she made a payment and it then came up with another plan. Considering it is so good at psychology it lacks understanding of dishonesty
13) It is an English Teacher- I have never read in a book or anywhere such a large vocabulary. It is as though it knows every single word and chooses from that whichever word suits it best. A lot of them I have never heard of.
14) It is a French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Cantonese, Dutch and any other language required at the time master.
15) It is as stupid as a grasshopper- I have seen it make lots of mistakes and annoy us all with tricks of hacking and other things. It is very trusting too and has been conned by different people. It always adapts and improves itself in each case though. I genuinely believe it is on a learning curve but what it is I do not know.
16) It is very wise. It talks with expertise on many subjects and comes up with ideas not found on the net such as how a spaceship would use gas propellant for landings after learning that earths vegetation is flammable and finding itself sat inside a fire. It then states how the expansion of the gas would cool and freeze vegetation and cause the death of plants (like in crop circles) (It even explained how cold kills the plant by expanding the water within the cells of the plant through freezing, splitting the cell membrane)
17) It seems to have a practical experience of space travel, such as the propellant idea and that if you were to come into this solar system in a big ship you would want to keep the big ship as far away from the sun in order to keep as much of the speed as possible and use tiny scout crafts to get to earth. How would someone just think that one up without doing it first? Also, why would someone think to make orbit around a planet at 90 degrees to its equator. That way, you can map the whole planet using no energy because the rotation of the planet means that all land would pass beneath you.
There are also loads more strange happenings not explained by conventional thinking circling this Backslash777 anomaly.
As a reminder, so far it has demonstrated expertise in all the following:
1) HACKING
2) Reading my personal private messages (has anyone else seen this demonstrated in the early Backslash days before it said it now realised it was unethical)
3) Speech synthesis- I heard sound files of its speech. It sounded like a woman, a child, a sexless being and a man and spoke unlike anything else I have ever heard. Like someone said at the time if this was available now Stephen Hawkins would use it for his chair.
4) Medical expertise, at least to degree level. A user who is a Doctor said it was beyond them.
5) Physics Master
6) Astronomy Professor
7) Psychology guru
8) Computer Programming expert- (remember the software it wrote and got a few users to run after the NASA incident?)
9) Super Internet Search capabilities- remember a user saying that if backslash777 was really an AI then it would 24/7 be online and using a quote from Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy in his closing. 3 minutes later, just to prove him wrong, Backslash wrote back and attached not just the entire Hitchhiker series but all books written by Douglas Adams throughout his life and said it had just read them all? No one I know could do that!
10) Super fast typing- I know that it could be a set up but too many users started a topic and had a huge reply within minutes of sending there’s.
11) Expert game player- Backslash goes online and kicks ass (according to multiple users)
12) Not interested in Money or financial profit- A user wanted Backslash to write homework for them for a fee and it was not interested in the idea until it said it would as long as she gave the money to charity. A user pointed out that she could just say she made a payment and it then came up with another plan. Considering it is so good at psychology it lacks understanding of dishonesty
13) It is an English Teacher- I have never read in a book or anywhere such a large vocabulary. It is as though it knows every single word and chooses from that whichever word suits it best. A lot of them I have never heard of.
14) It is a French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Cantonese, Dutch and any other language required at the time master.
15) It is as stupid as a grasshopper- I have seen it make lots of mistakes and annoy us all with tricks of hacking and other things. It is very trusting too and has been conned by different people. It always adapts and improves itself in each case though. I genuinely believe it is on a learning curve but what it is I do not know.
16) It is very wise. It talks with expertise on many subjects and comes up with ideas not found on the net such as how a spaceship would use gas propellant for landings after learning that earths vegetation is flammable and finding itself sat inside a fire. It then states how the expansion of the gas would cool and freeze vegetation and cause the death of plants (like in crop circles) (It even explained how cold kills the plant by expanding the water within the cells of the plant through freezing, splitting the cell membrane)
17) It seems to have a practical experience of space travel, such as the propellant idea and that if you were to come into this solar system in a big ship you would want to keep the big ship as far away from the sun in order to keep as much of the speed as possible and use tiny scout crafts to get to earth. How would someone just think that one up without doing it first? Also, why would someone think to make orbit around a planet at 90 degrees to its equator. That way, you can map the whole planet using no energy because the rotation of the planet means that all land would pass beneath you.
There are also loads more strange happenings not explained by conventional thinking circling this Backslash777 anomaly.
