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Also Frederic Brown, "Etaoin Shrdlu", 1942, which I have only read synopses of.

by j1o1h1n 11y ago

Animats 11y ago
"It believes what it sets", about a sentient Linotype. That's a very funny short story. A magic story, though, not AI.
MichaelMoser123 11y ago
Also Karel Čapek wrote R.U.R in 1920; (well its about assembled artificial biological beings, so you can say that it is not about AI). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. And there is the Golem, which is even earlier. Also i find it funny how much attention this theoretical problem receives, when we don't have a good explanations on what intelligence is and how it works.
- MichaelMoser123 11y ago
  Also all these stories seem to be projecting our own behavior on robots; Humans and apes like to be alpha males, because it gives them an evolutionary advantage; by extension it seems natural that Robots will also have the same drive for power; is that really true? I think that the Robot will not have such an in built desire - if it is based on reasoning then the machine might actually be more reasonable. In other words there is enough room for both Humans and Robots.
  - MichaelMoser123 11y ago
    Mr. Yudkowsky says: "Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point." http://www.azquotes.com/quote/819025 http://www.azquotes.com/quote/819025 The point is that our gadgets become more powerful and more potent as weapons; so as we have a good history of past abuses it is sort of easy to extrapolate to the future. What is still don't understand: would intelligence be an inhibiting factor - like more reasonable Humans are supposedly less destructive; Maybe the same goes for machines. I don't buy the argument about competition for resources - With enough effort you can always stretch it so that there is enough for everybody/everything. Another interesting aspect: once upon a time people would become very agitated when discussing politics (that was when we still had ideological differences and when people thought that their stance does matter); In our time we have discussions about sci-fi instead of that.

Also Frederic Brown, "Etaoin Shrdlu", 1942, which I have only read synopses of.

by j1o1h1n 11y ago

Also Frederic Brown, "Etaoin Shrdlu", 1942, which I have only read synopses of.

Animats 11y ago

"It believes what it sets", about a sentient Linotype. That's a very funny short story. A magic story, though, not AI.

MichaelMoser123 11y ago

Also Karel Čapek wrote R.U.R in 1920; (well its about assembled artificial biological beings, so you can say that it is not about AI). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. And there is the Golem, which is even earlier. Also i find it funny how much attention this theoretical problem receives, when we don't have a good explanations on what intelligence is and how it works.

MichaelMoser123 11y ago
Also all these stories seem to be projecting our own behavior on robots; Humans and apes like to be alpha males, because it gives them an evolutionary advantage; by extension it seems natural that Robots will also have the same drive for power; is that really true? I think that the Robot will not have such an in built desire - if it is based on reasoning then the machine might actually be more reasonable. In other words there is enough room for both Humans and Robots.
- MichaelMoser123 11y ago
  Mr. Yudkowsky says: "Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point." http://www.azquotes.com/quote/819025 http://www.azquotes.com/quote/819025 The point is that our gadgets become more powerful and more potent as weapons; so as we have a good history of past abuses it is sort of easy to extrapolate to the future. What is still don't understand: would intelligence be an inhibiting factor - like more reasonable Humans are supposedly less destructive; Maybe the same goes for machines. I don't buy the argument about competition for resources - With enough effort you can always stretch it so that there is enough for everybody/everything. Another interesting aspect: once upon a time people would become very agitated when discussing politics (that was when we still had ideological differences and when people thought that their stance does matter); In our time we have discussions about sci-fi instead of that.