Thanks! I like the overview discussions over at LessWrong about AI too. That's where I learned some of the more fine grain distinctions in the Artificial Mind p

Thanks! I like the overview discussions over at LessWrong about AI too. That's where I learned some of the more fine grain distinctions in the Artificial Mind pantheon. I'm more in the dedicated and subservient personal assistant ecological niche as a good place for artificial minds. They learn about you, help you when they can, recover from mistakes quickly, etc... A la Jarvis in the Iron Man world or Jeeves to his Berty Wooster. There's a great portrait in the Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy of novels by Robert J. Sawyer. The "companion implants", just perfect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neanderthal_Parallax#Government_and_justice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neanderthal_Parallax#Gover...