Ok, why is it so important to have the Three Laws of Robotics in this movie (or any film dealing with AI)? Wasn't that the whole point of I, Robot? That even these supposedly air-tight rules could be circumvented?
Just putting them in there for no reason that to garner some 'cred smacks of egoism (and would have created some loopholes to boot).
Pops always said:
1. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
2. There is more than one way to build a cage.
3. There is more than one way to program an AI.
From theonion's Ron Jeremy interview. Actually I've heard this same topic breeched first after the video cassette boom and replicated time and time again with the latest tech achievement. I guess Jon Katz wanted something new to troll about this week:
O: How would you say the industry is changing with technology? RJ: Well, CD-ROMs. We've always been the leaders. People in porno have always been the leaders in new eras and new things--on tape,
on CD. The first X-rated tapes were pre-recorded, are you aware of that? And all the major studios followed. The very first tapes to rent
and bring home were X-rated. I already shot a hologram technique. They shot me on hologram so I can now appear lifelike in your living
room--isn't that scary?--with a girl. You know, we're the cheaper medium, so people experiment with us. In fact, we were the first of go
CD-ROM with computers and all. So adult films have always been leading the way when it comes to technology. So we keep up. Basically,
whatever's happening, there we are.
If you read the article a little more closely, the publishers are concerned about "electronic" books and journals (ie more new media hysteria) NOT the classic "wood and hide" versions.
To back your claim up, one of the largest problems in world-wide pollution is not First World nations, but semi-periphery states that are dependent upon 19th century technology... Peru, India, even a good deal of China (although their on their way to fixing that). Hell, you can see the chemical waste drain out of Peru into the Pacific from space!
The problem is that impoverished states do not have the luxury of nuclear or hydroelectric (and usually depend on coal power). Actually all of the chemically hazardous work has moved out of the developed world and into these backwaters.
I could get into China hating the rest of the world for shaking a finger when they did the same thing 200 years ago.
I'm just remembering a line from a German Expressionistic by Georg Kaiser drama called Gas! (written in the 30's no less):
"Find something better or make due with something worse."
Um, is there anyway of teaming Unmanned and Manned craft? Like a single human fighter with, say, 5 unmanned subordinates?
I don't know about you, but when I play Homeworld, I usually watch my squadrons closely (while not leaving it to a blip on the screen for them to find/kill). If "I" think that what they find is/isn't worth it, "I" decide if they should go for it/retreat/find something else.
The machines can dip their fingers in blood while a human can play eye in the sky (e.g. "Heh, look, a SCUD base" or "Nope, those are our guys").
Personally it seems like a solution that maximizes all of their strengths while minimizing their weaknesses.
I first read about this on Salon and my dad got it for me for Christmas. It's an excellent read (bounced through it in 2 days) especially on the farce of cold fusion. I love how the author describes the scientists' excitement at having a "meltdown" when they should have been concerned about all of the fun with the radiation.
The footnotes are also excellent at explaining the basics of the scientific theories in good layman's terms.
The most interesting chapter has to be that of the Stalin era, lead by that lunatic Lysenko (who's deeds have lead to the word lysenkoism meaning pathological science). Its wonderful when a doctrine promotes a scientist who leads to the death of millions through famine and blight.
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Ok, why is it so important to have the Three Laws of Robotics in this movie (or any film dealing with AI)? Wasn't that the whole point of I, Robot? That even these supposedly air-tight rules could be circumvented?
Just putting them in there for no reason that to garner some 'cred smacks of egoism (and would have created some loopholes to boot).
Pops always said:
1. There is more than one way to skin a cat.
2. There is more than one way to build a cage.
3. There is more than one way to program an AI.
From theonion's Ron Jeremy interview. Actually I've heard this same topic breeched first after the video cassette boom and replicated time and time again with the latest tech achievement. I guess Jon Katz wanted something new to troll about this week:
O: How would you say the industry is changing with technology?
RJ: Well, CD-ROMs. We've always been the leaders. People in porno have always been the leaders in new eras and new things--on tape, on CD. The first X-rated tapes were pre-recorded, are you aware of that? And all the major studios followed. The very first tapes to rent and bring home were X-rated. I already shot a hologram technique. They shot me on hologram so I can now appear lifelike in your living room--isn't that scary?--with a girl. You know, we're the cheaper medium, so people experiment with us. In fact, we were the first of go CD-ROM with computers and all. So adult films have always been leading the way when it comes to technology. So we keep up. Basically, whatever's happening, there we are.
If you read the article a little more closely, the publishers are concerned about "electronic" books and journals (ie more new media hysteria) NOT the classic "wood and hide" versions.
To back your claim up, one of the largest problems in world-wide pollution is not First World nations, but semi-periphery states that are dependent upon 19th century technology... Peru, India, even a good deal of China (although their on their way to fixing that). Hell, you can see the chemical waste drain out of Peru into the Pacific from space!
The problem is that impoverished states do not have the luxury of nuclear or hydroelectric (and usually depend on coal power). Actually all of the chemically hazardous work has moved out of the developed world and into these backwaters.
I could get into China hating the rest of the world for shaking a finger when they did the same thing 200 years ago.
I'm just remembering a line from a German Expressionistic by Georg Kaiser drama called Gas! (written in the 30's no less): "Find something better or make due with something worse."
Um, is there anyway of teaming Unmanned and Manned craft? Like a single human fighter with, say, 5 unmanned subordinates?
I don't know about you, but when I play Homeworld, I usually watch my squadrons closely (while not leaving it to a blip on the screen for them to find/kill). If "I" think that what they find is/isn't worth it, "I" decide if they should go for it/retreat/find something else.
The machines can dip their fingers in blood while a human can play eye in the sky (e.g. "Heh, look, a SCUD base" or "Nope, those are our guys").
Personally it seems like a solution that maximizes all of their strengths while minimizing their weaknesses.
I first read about this on Salon and my dad got it for me for Christmas. It's an excellent read (bounced through it in 2 days) especially on the farce of cold fusion. I love how the author describes the scientists' excitement at having a "meltdown" when they should have been concerned about all of the fun with the radiation.
The footnotes are also excellent at explaining the basics of the scientific theories in good layman's terms.
The most interesting chapter has to be that of the Stalin era, lead by that lunatic Lysenko (who's deeds have lead to the word lysenkoism meaning pathological science). Its wonderful when a doctrine promotes a scientist who leads to the death of millions through famine and blight.