By Patrick Goss
Artificial intelligence remains a genuine concern for some of the world’s most intelligent people – including Professor Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates – and it is science fiction that provides some of the best cautionary tales about life after the singularity.
The moment our technology attains true intelligence will be transformative – although whether that will prove to be change for the better or spell the end of humanity remains a debate.
Will we get the (largely) benign minds of Iain M Banks’s classic Culture series or will GLadOS be stealing our cake and our lives in the hope of making a new gun? Will humanity be seen as creator gods or a virus to be eradicated?
We’ve picked out some of our favourite AIs that should earn as cautionary tales – plundering the fecund worlds of books, gaming and movies.
Neuromancer
Although Neuromancer (and its counterpart Wintermute) was not being evil, the complexity of artificial intelligence and the ruthlessness with which it will treat humanity as it tries to achieve its aims are potentially a central problem for artificial intelligence.
In William Gibson’s seminal novel, [Spoilers follow] to avoid laws against developing AIs a rich family …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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