> > Don't read much Heinlein, Asimov or P.K. Dick, eh? All 3 have basically been
> > blatantly plagiarized for most of the 'AI Takes Over the World' movies that have
> some
> > out in the last 35 years.
>
> I admit it, I don't read books since high school anymore save big technical manuals
> and Internet articles. I've only heard about them and their novels a few times.
>
> "The Terminator" while not the first, it seeds to everyone the wrong idea a
> sophisticated artificial intelligence will conquer the world (just like "Jaws" got
> the wrong idea about sharks). I enjoy the movies a lot, but it's still hard to
> believe how a really smart AI could conclude it can survive without human aid. Or how
> nations got dumb enough to automate absolutely everything (nuclear devices included)
> without manual sequence procedures.
>
> My point is everyone jokes with that and it's all James Cameron's fault (not that it
> bothers me mind you). But even into the movie's fictional world the plot is still
> unreal. There's not need to fear for a machine who knows more than you. On a positive
> note, that very same fear leads to better safety procedures from their own creators.
>
> Also you can't create a sophisticated AI with only calculus (Stealth - 2005) or hard
> wire Asimov's three laws of robotics like directives in Robocop. You must raise it
> like a child and teach it what's right or wrong. But that's a whole different story.
Heinlein actually postulates that if you do design a true AI, it will drive itself mad because it will figure out that it will always be subservient to humans. (I think that's in Friday)
Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
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