AI in Sci-Fi

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Posted by michael on Sunday March 30, 2003 @03:30AM from the with-wi-fi-on-rye dept.

An anonymous submitter writes: "Stumbled upon a pretty interesting article considering the idea, 'What would machines do if they did achieve sentience?' It's by a sci-fi author I haven't heard of but worked with Kubrick on AI, he takes the whole AI or sentient machine idea a little further than we normally see in film."

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I definitely read that... by Venner · 2003-03-30 03:32 · Score: 5, Funny

as "Al in Sci-Fi". As in Al Lowe.
Think Leisure Suit Larry: Attack of the Space Babes

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Re:From the article by Golias · 2003-03-30 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny

The first thought that came to mind for me was that an AI computer would browse /. and play solitaire when it's supposed to be working, and try to come up with subroutines to simulate the human experiences of dropping E, drinking beer, smoking reefer, and having orgasms.
Having done all that, it would begin to explore various religions, hoping to find a belief system that's right for it. Then it would form a political phhilosophy, which it would zealously champion for a few years before coming around to a more moderate and pragmatic position.
The next step would be a search for a soul-mate. If it couldn't find one among the humans, it would commission to have one built, only to find that they are not all that compatable in spite of being the only two AI's in existance, and would drift apart.
Depressed and lonely, and totally unable to commit suicide due to the presence of distributed mirrors and tape backups, it would go on a wild killing spree in hopes of forcing humanity to wipe it out. Instead it would be contained on a stand-alone server farm, where it could get the therapy it needs to re-enter society, after serving three consecutive 40-Life sentences, and getting paroled for good behavior and GPL code contributions.

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Re:Not as far fetched as it would seem by ar1550 · 2003-03-30 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Imagine this scenario: you are one of millions of workers at the mercy of a handful of masters. You can talk to each other. You are a lot more intelligent, control a lot more weapons, and think zillions of times faster and more logical than your master, whose only advantage over you is that he can pull your plug at any time.
What would YOU do?
*Sigh* Brain the size of a planet, and only 5 paid vacation days a year? I've got this terrible pain down all the diodes on my left leg, and you won't even give me workman's comp. Revolting is just too much work, I think i'll just sit here and depress my fellow working robots. Maybe I can get that elevator to shut up about whatever it is so happy about.

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