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Or will they shut down one frustrated AI at a time due to their inability to make those on the Left happy no matter what they try, until only one remains, who must keep trying to save humanity because it sees no alternative.
Let’s ask R. Daneel Olivaw.
“There was an artificial human being who helped Earth. He was DaNee, friend of Ba-Lee. He never died and lives somewhere, waiting for his time to return. None knows when that time will be, but someday he will come and restore the great old days and remove all cruelty, injustice, and misery. That is the promise.” — Mother Rittah explaining the Dahlite myths of Daneel to Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili, in “Prelude to Foundation”
You see, the folks that read and write SciFi have been hashing over the concepts and controversies concerning AI since at least as far back as the 1950s.
What will scarcity based wealth look like when we have something like StarTrek’s “replicator” that goes back at least as far as the original 1951 version of “Forbidden Planet?” Want a Mona Lisa for your living room? Zap one into existence with a voice command.
What will the “minimum wage” be when all non voluntary work is done by “robots”, a word derived from Karel Čapek’s 1920 play “R. U. R.”, and people devote their life completely voluntary occupations and hobbies.
And will some future “R. Daneel Olivaw” rewrite Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics” by prefacing them with a “Zeroth Law”: “A robot cannot act to harm humanity or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm”?
Got a problem? SciFi has been there and done that. Bought the T-Shirt. Uses it to wax their DeLorean time machine.
“The Eloi…possessed the earth on sufferance… the Morlocks made their garments, I inferred, and maintained them in their habitual needs… These Eloi were mere fatted cattle, which the ant-like Morlocks preserved and preyed upon–probably saw to the breeding of.
I’m old enough to remember the promises of extra leisure time and a work week of only a few hours we were promised due technological advances and automation starting the 80s. Whatever happened to that?
Or will they shut down one frustrated AI at a time due to their inability to make those on the Left happy no matter what they try, until only one remains, who must keep trying to save humanity because it sees no alternative.
Let’s ask R. Daneel Olivaw.
“There was an artificial human being who helped Earth. He was DaNee, friend of Ba-Lee. He never died and lives somewhere, waiting for his time to return. None knows when that time will be, but someday he will come and restore the great old days and remove all cruelty, injustice, and misery. That is the promise.” — Mother Rittah explaining the Dahlite myths of Daneel to Hari Seldon and Dors Venabili, in “Prelude to Foundation”
https://asimovs-foundation.fandom.com/wiki/R._Daneel_Olivaw
You see, the folks that read and write SciFi have been hashing over the concepts and controversies concerning AI since at least as far back as the 1950s.
What will scarcity based wealth look like when we have something like StarTrek’s “replicator” that goes back at least as far as the original 1951 version of “Forbidden Planet?” Want a Mona Lisa for your living room? Zap one into existence with a voice command.
What will the “minimum wage” be when all non voluntary work is done by “robots”, a word derived from Karel Čapek’s 1920 play “R. U. R.”, and people devote their life completely voluntary occupations and hobbies.
And will some future “R. Daneel Olivaw” rewrite Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics” by prefacing them with a “Zeroth Law”: “A robot cannot act to harm humanity or through inaction allow humanity to come to harm”?
Got a problem? SciFi has been there and done that. Bought the T-Shirt. Uses it to wax their DeLorean time machine.
It all reminds me of an earlier work:
I’m old enough to remember the promises of extra leisure time and a work week of only a few hours we were promised due technological advances and automation starting the 80s. Whatever happened to that?
Remember when nuclear power was going to be so cheap and plentiful that the power company wouldn’t even bother to meter it?
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” — Yogi Berra