From: Charles D Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 01:55:03 MDT
Jim Blair wrote:
> See the following:
>
> Spin State and Spin Control - Chris Moriarty
>
> Accelerando - Charles Stross (I'm still reading this one so I don't know
> exactly how the AI will turn out).
>
> You may want to check out Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise (also by Stross)
> in which the AI is so far beyond our understanding that it is hard to
> ascribe a good or evil label to it.
>
> Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson - Also has an AI component but again, it
> is so far beyond us that its motives aren't clear.
>
> A common theme seems to be that the AI de jour leaves us alone as long as we
> don't appear to be a threat.
>
> "If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy
> to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to
> know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big
> technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human
> lives."
>
> Freeman Dyson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:rpwl@lightlink.com]
> Sent: Sunday, August 06, 2006 8:25 AM
> To: sl4@sl4.org
> Subject: Question: Movies and books about positive AI
>
>
> 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.
>
> Richard Loosemore
>
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I've finished Accelerando twice, and I'm still not sure how the AI
turned out.
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