It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this: That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy who have always existed and presumably will always exist to get people to love their servitude. (Aldous Huxley)
Robbie the robot was probably the most iconic character and star in ‘The Forbidden Planet‘. The film, loosely based on The Tempest had Anne Francis playing a delightful Miranda, achieving cult status as Altaira. However, in 1956 it was the notion that Robbie the robot could instantly manufacture anything to order, clothes, machine parts, food and much more, which caught my imagination. Some fifty years later science fiction becomes reality. Read more of this post
Is it bird? Is it a plane? No it’s a bid! introduces algorithmic artificial intelligence (AI) with examples that include some fictional AI robot scenarios and some recent real life occurrences. In researching material for the post, two things stand out. The first is the fictional human to AI-robot interactions, scenarios where humans interact with artificially created intelligence endowed with human attributes. The second is the ‘real life’ AI-robot to AI-robot stock market occurrences, where multiple artificial intelligences autonomously manipulate stock values, endowed with the single human attribute of seeking financial gain.
Computer algorithms impact on every aspect of our lives. We live in a computer-algorithmic-age, and age of artificial intelligence (AI). Artificial intelligence (AI) in fiction and real life has now surpassed that of Isaac Asimov’s robots and the three laws of robotics. Namely that a robot:
May not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. Read more of this post
A long time ago Alan Coren published what I thought was a very funny article parodying the use of computer technology by a national newspaper. The piece Coren wrote for Punch was about the use of a newspaper database supposedly used at The Guardian newspaper, or The Grauniad as it was known. How ‘The Guardian’ became called ‘The Grauniad’ is the stuff of urban legend.
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The + Plus, magazine, is for those interested in mathematics and its applications. While I am certainly not a mathematician, musician or scientist, I am mildly curious about a lot and obsessively curious about little. My curiosity is often triggered by my ventures into the ‘blogosphere’. So for those who do have a real interest in music, mathematics or science, with perhaps some talent in these areas, an article in + Plus with the title What makes an object into a musical instrument? may interest you.
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