AI in Sci-Fi

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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Re:if machines achieved sentience

[Carmody]

Very soon after that, they'd discover pleasure, build genitals and spend the next several years masterbating non-stop. After wearing out their fabricated genitalia, they'd discover philosophy and search for the meaning of their existence. Sadly, they would quickly come to the conclusion that their existence has no more meaning than that which they themselves create. At this point, two events might occur

Third possible event: They would build more genitals and just keep masturbating. Soon they would develop better materials and alloys for their genitals. They might even start wars over places with the ideal raw materials for robot-genitals, or places with the ideal environments for robot-genital synthesis.

Ooops - I have just given away the plot for Terminator V: The Robot-Genital Wars