AI WINTER IS OFFICIALLY OVER

Move the fuck over Mentifex, AI hobbyist are raising money to attempt the most ambitious project ever create, the simulation of an entire worm.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openworm/openworm-a-digital-organism-in-your-browser?ref=category
This project is simulating an entire 302 neurons and for only $249 you -- yes YOU -- can have your name assigned to one!

Don't think this is some fly-by-night bullshit scam aiming to make $120,000 and get out quick either, there are a full nine people on this project ready to make it a success. No niggers on it though.

And as a statement to the sheer complexity of this feat,

building a WormSim from source is a complex operation that requires advanced engineering skills

That's right, [u][b]advanced engineering skills[/b][/u] just to [i]run `./configure && make && make install' That must be one fucking monster of a project. Luck for you retards

The WormSims created and brought to you by this campaign will run on a rather advanced cloud infrastructure and will be easily available in your browser without requiring any programming skills.

How magnanimous.

But is it really intelligent? YES[i]![/i]

The C. elegans worm can avoid predators, seek food, and learn in the wild and in the lab! So yes, it’s no Lieutenant Commander Data yet, but we must crawl before we can walk... and it’s orders of magnitude more intelligent than your robot vacuum cleaner ;)

Beam me the fuck up, Scotty, cuz' this worm is about to assfuck the entire Earth. Singularity, here we cum!

>>15
I've never been one to circlejerk over the ethics of AI prematurely, as that is nonsense for the mindless anti-science humanities types to argue over. It is best just to ignore them until the reality of the situation can be established.

Therefore, I propose that wait until we have sentient AI to answer this question. To do so, we give one the body of a worm, and insert it into AnusWorld (think a Lovecraftian plane consisting of horrible multidimensional orifices of abominations so foul that they defy description). We should run the simulation for a few thousand years of simulated time, then ask the AI to describe it's experiences. If it seems to enjoy it, then we know that it is not cruel, if it did not like the experience, then we know that it is cruel and know better next time.

This should also be performed experimentally. It should be relatively simple to have a large sample size, and if each AI can be copied, then even better, it will make for the perfect control and experimental groups. There can be one million that experience a thousand years of nothing, a million that have to sing to and play harp for the Robot God for a thousand years, while the final million get AnusWorld.

This would be a great project for us in the future when there is no more scarcity and there are robots that do everything except chew our food for us.