[alicebot-aiethics] AI: The Movie

[Robby Garner]

Jon Baer said:
> Attack of the Killer Aibos would have had more AI going for it.

LOL! ;-)  The teddy bear was the smartest AI in AI!  I also had problems
that "David" would get stuck in a loop sometimes like when he nearly drowned
that other kid. That would be like some really bad error trapping in the
droid's programming if you ask me. But maybe it just illustrated that the
machines were fallable, thereby more human??

> I think the
> future of AI movies have to come either in 2 flavors, "them" living in our
world
> or us living in "their" world.  If there are a million
gadgets/bots/whatver
> doing a more productive job and automation putting more and more people
out of
> work there will come a point where certain areas (not the whole world)
will be
> better off being run by 51%+ intelligent machines.  Id like to see the
point @
> which they can be *considered* part of the "population", a movie like that
would
> be interesting, something that is not sooo distant in the future but
something
> "right around the corner".

Amen to that! You know, Bicentennial Man, although a tad sentimental, was a
pretty good "robot that wants to be human" movie about a machine that was
unique and became its own individual.  Those machines were part of society,
although they were still open to some abuse by mean spirited kids. ;-)

Robby.