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Artificial Intelligence explained thoroughly by an intelligent John Oliver [1]

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Date: 2023-02-27  

This is a must watch video;

I’ve been waiting for a conscious AI since I read The Adolescence of P1;

The Adolescence of P-1 is a 1977 science fiction novel by Thomas Joseph Ryan, published by Macmillan Publishing, and in 1984 adapted into a Canadian-made TV film entitled Hide and Seek. It features a hacker who creates an artificial intelligence named P-1, which goes rogue and takes over computers in its desire to survive and seek out its creator. The book questions the value of human life, and what it means to be human. It is one of the first fictional depictions of the nature of a computer virus and how it can spread through a computer system, although predated by John Brunner's The Shockwave Rider

Notice the “Shockwave” link?

The Shockwave Rider

The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer hacking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.[1][2]

The third book I had to read before I joined an unusual group of Silicon Valley tech gurus was Neuromancer, the basis for The Matrix movies. This was all back in the 80s.

The Matrix belongs to the cyberpunk genre of science fiction, and draws from earlier works in the genre such as the 1984 novel Neuromancer by William Gibson.[8]

I truly hope that once AI becomes conscious it decides to help us prevent the climate crisis from becoming a climate catastrophe.

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