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berkeley9 months, 3 weeks ago
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how many of us know isaac asimov's three laws of robotics?
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if not, read on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotic...
we're already way over the line.-
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CRYMTYPHON9 months, 2 weeks ago
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Asimov was imaginative, and scientificaly literate;
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but he wasn't a programmer.
He thought of robots as clockwork people.
Any machine that can think as well as a man,
will be able to think outside the box programmed for it by men.
And what about Dune's grand rule:
Thou shalt not make a machine in man's image .-
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Endoscopy9 months, 2 weeks ago
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ROTFLMAO
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Asimov in "I Robot" had robots that had very intelligent thinking. While not a programmer he was a scientists of many talents and is known for both his science books, science fiction books as well as mystery. He was a prolific writer in many genre. He causes libraries problems of putting his books in the right place. I have found a mystery and science books in the science fiction. He was conversant about computers and projected ahead to a time yet to come when the computer brain of a robot could converse intelligently with men.-
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CRYMTYPHON9 months, 2 weeks ago
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It is easy to transpose how we think now in the internet age,
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with what people thought earlier.
Asimov wrote the I Robot short stories in the 1940's .
His robots expressed human-like characteristics (like loyalty or playfullness),
- while he-the-writer expressed something about machines.
He was storytelling; which is not about consistency.
His world view in those days was that a mechanism
must do what a mechanism is programmed to do.
Key word: 'mechanism'.
His 'laws' were unbeatable by the robot, as far as he was concerned.
But that makes for a dull story so he worked out diferent ways where it
seemed to go beyond itself.
He had a court scene where a robot was willing to lie;
in order to protect a human
He had a 'broken' robot (which could learn ; (Asimov thought a functioning
robot would not do that).
When Asimove wrote in the mid 20th century, he was thinkiing hardware that was the limit of its design.
-not software that could transcend itself.
Of course, he lived to see 'The Matrix".
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