» Add other authors (25 possible) Author name When you read LIAR!, which develops the reader's appreciation of the fickle, fallible nature of the human psyche compared with the complex yet uncomplicated behaviour of an AI - you might also come to my conclusion : there may be a discrete step in the social order where the AI race leapfrogs over the human race, but I cannot see how there can be equality.Īs I said, the book deserves a decently thorough review - I will get to this in the near future.

This is what will prevent artificial beings ever being accepted according to the 'All Men Are Equal' lofty ideal. This story will be the nemesis of human / AI social interactions I reckon.

I'll write a more deserving review later, for now I want to point to the story LIAR! that is his seminal work in my opinion. If you haven't seen the movie, please don't bother. If you have watched the movie I, Robot - it bears zero resemblance to the book, you need to read the book. Isaac's experience of human nature manifests masterfully in the ways the intelligence of the robot exercises individuality within these constraints. Isaac really gets to the heart of artificial intelligence, and the heart is the inviolate observance of hardcoded laws in the robot programme. Ten short stories that changed Science Fiction forever in 1950. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world-all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark.

Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future-a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

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