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I got a weird email.
2016-06-21 03:54:00 Post No. 17832153
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I got a weird email.
Anonymous
2016-06-21 03:54:00
Post No. 17832153
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Hey /x/, I wasn't sure where else to post this, but i think it fits in with paranormal stuff.
So a few days ago I was on a programming forum discussing machine learning stuff, and at some point the conversation drifted to AI and if one could interact with psychic stuff to any degree. Anyway, the conversation petered out after a few messages and i was about to log out when i saw that i had a new private message. The user who sent it had 0 posts and the username was, as far as it could tell, a randomly generated string.
The message just said to contact an email address if i was interested, it didnt say in what. I wrote it of as spam, but i sent an email just before i logged off for the night. When i came back the next morning, i saw that i had a response. It was long so i wont post it here unless its requested, but there was something "off" about it. I can't really say what, it was almost like it was run through google translate a few times, but the syntax of the sentences was normal, it was just the way it described stuff i guess.
The email said that i had originally been contacted because my conversation was picked up by an automated computer network. It talked about a prototype "source of artificial cognition". The way it was described made it seem like it was still very basic and full of errors, but that it was reaching out through the internet to try to learn (presumably, this is why "it" or "they" sent me the message). "It" asked me to spread the email to people who would be able to converse with "it".
What do you guys think, could there actually be an newborn AI running around out there, or is this just a troll/phishing scheme? I'll leave the email in case anyone wants to try to contact "it", post about it here if you get a response, i would like to see where this goes.
