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  • This house supports the increased adoption of algorithm for the analysis of users' matching patterns (e.g. educational background, vocation, etc.) and suggestions of future matches in dating apps.

    Malaysia United Asian Debating Championship 2023 · EFL Quarterfinals · 2023-06-16

  • THP a world where Augmented Eternity is widely accessible.

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    For the purpose of this debate, ‘Augmented Eternity’ refers to a technology which allows individuals to use data from their lifelong online presence to create a ‘digital mind’ that would continue to exist after their death. This digital being would be able to communicate based on predictions it can make from the data it was provided. The digital being is not 'sentient'.

    Ridge Debate Tournament 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-06-11

  • This house supports the use of "Soul Sync"

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    For the purposes of this debate, "Soul Sync" is an AI system that scans and analyzes the collected data to create a comprehensive profile of a deceased person's personality, communication style, and behavioral patterns. It learns from their online interactions, language choices, and preferences to build an AI model. The AI is designed to mimic the speech patterns, mannerisms, and knowledge of the deceased individual based on the data it has processed. Once the initial AI model is created, it can interact with users through various interfaces such as text messaging, voice messages, and phone calls.

    UT MARA Pre-UADC 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-06-09

  • This house, as an average individual would opt into the artificial afterlife

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    The artificial afterlife is a technology that allows an individual to transfer their consciousness into the technology. The afterlife will be a close approximation person’s life, in terms of the person’s place of residence and the luxuries that the individual can afford. The afterlife will only be populated by other individuals that have chosen to opt into the technology. The transition into the afterlife is painless and irreversible, and allows the person to exist in the virtual world for approximately 100 years. Every individual is given the choice to opt into this technology when they have reached the halfway point in their lives (around 40-50 years old). For the purpose of the motion, an average individual is a middle-class person that is leading a reasonably satisfying life.

    Durham Schools 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-05-26

  • THP a world where Match.AI is widely used

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    Match.AI is a new AI technology that accurately analyzes the chances of success for a relationship between any two people and gives an output in the form of a percentage. For example - a relationship between Marina and Tamar has an 89% chance of success.

    Vienna IV 2023 · Novice Final · 2023-05-12

  • Given the existence of an Artificial General Intelligence, THP that it would be based on virtue ethics and not utilitarian framework.

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    Virtue ethics is a way of thinking about right and wrong that focuses on good character. It emphasizes acting in ways that reflects positive traits like honesty, courage, and kindness. Utilitarian frameworks think about right and wrong by maximizing outcomes, usually defined as the greatest overall well-being of utility for affected parties. An AGI or artificial general intelligence refers to a type of artificial intelligence that has the ability to understand, learn, and apply knowledge across a ride range of tasks at a level equal to or beyond that of a human without specifically being programmed to.

    Vienna IV 2023 · ESL Final · 2023-05-12

  • Given the existence of an Artificial General Intelligence, THP that it would be based on virtue ethics and not utilitarian framework.

    Infoslide

    Virtue ethics is a way of thinking about right and wrong that focuses on good character. It emphasizes acting in ways that reflects positive traits like honesty, courage, and kindness. Utilitarian frameworks think about right and wrong by maximizing outcomes, usually defined as the greatest overall well-being of utility for affected parties. An AGI or artificial general intelligence refers to a type of artificial intelligence that has the ability to understand, learn, and apply knowledge across a ride range of tasks at a level equal to or beyond that of a human without specifically being programmed to.

    Vienna IV 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-05-12

  • This house supports the active integration of ChatGPT (and technology of similar functionalities) as a tool for education in schools (secondary schools onwards)

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    ChatGPT is a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) system that uses advanced neural networks to understand and generate human-like text, learning from an enormous amount of data to provide helpful and accurate responses to your questions or prompts

    Korea Juniors 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-04-22

  • This house believes that the development of AGI should be restricted exclusively to government-controlled or funded institutions.

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    Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a form of AI that is able to perform at a similar or greater level of cognition as humans in a wide variety of tasks and can learn new tasks. In contrast, narrow AI (like Siri, Chat-GPT, self-driving cars) are designed to perform one specific type of task. AGI does not exist yet.

    Oxford Schools 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-04-15

  • This House Supports the emergence of companionship bots

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    Companionship bots (i.e Replika and Phaedra) are designed to foster humanlike connections using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). These bots take the form of an interactive and personalized chatbots. In most companionship bots, nearly all aspects of it are customizable. Users can buy their bot's clothes, choose their hair color, and dictate how they look, sound, and speak.

    SMDO 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-04-15

  • This house supports the pause

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    There is an aggressive move by big tech companies driven by a race to control what could be the tech industry's next big thing - Chat bot AI systems (eg: Chat gpt, Google bard etc) in the context of ethical and safety concerns. Last week, tension between the industry's worries and risk- takers played out publicly as more than 1,000 researchers and industry leaders, including Elon Musk and Apple's co- founder Steve Wozniak, called for a six month pause in the development of powerful A.I. technology.

    Easters 2023 · Quarterfinals · 2023-04-09

  • This house supports a government madated halt of giant AI experiments

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    Giant AI experiments include but are not limited to language learning models Like GPT-4. Other AI labs are currently also developing much more ambitious projects that are much larger than that of OpenAI (the creators of Dall E 2 and ChatGPT)

    NAUDC 2023 · Novice Semifinals · 2023-04-08

  • This house as the researcher will destroy the singularity.

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    You are a researcher who has discovered the "singularity". The singularity is the highest form of AI that can operate on a global scale (i.e. climate change). It is faster and bigger than any other technology. It can predict the future, and solve the current problems of the world. But the effects of the singularity cannot be predicted.

    Novice Worlds 2023 · Open Finals · 2023-03-25

  • This house prefers a world where an artificial general intelligence is not developed.

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    An artificial general intelligence (AGI) is an AI system capable of performing any task a human can more efficiently. The majority of computer scientists believe that we will eventually succeed in building an AGI, and many believe it will happen in the 21st century.

    Manzar 2023 · 5 · 2023-03-25