From: Joel Pitt (joel.pitt@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Aug 06 2006 - 19:05:20 MDT
On 8/7/06, Richard Loosemore <rpwl@lightlink.com> wrote:
> While I am on the subject, would anyone be interested in giving me their
> thoughts about *positive* examples of fictional AI?
>
> What I mean is, how many times have SF writers (whether in written or
> movie form) created fictional futures in which the AI was not the villain?
>
> And within that category, in how many of the cases was the AI portrayed
> as having equal or superior intelligence (instead of turning out to be
> just a glorified calculator that could be outsmarted by outmaneuvering
> its logic circuits)? I am less interested in these.
>
> The only notable examples I can think of are Iain M. Banks Culture
> books, and Asimov's benign robots (who, if I recall correctly, tend to
> be of the less-than-human-equivalent sort).
>
> Lem's creations might count, but he is a little surreal.
Orson Scott Card's character Jane (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_%28Ender%27s_Game%29 )
from the Ender's Game series is generally benevolent.
--
-Joel
"Wish not to seem, but to be, the best."
-- Aeschylus
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