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As previously mentioned, yours truly is currently guest-blogging at AMC TV's SciFi Scanner blog. Here's another roundup of the posts I did there.
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| Posted by John on Monday September 24, 2007 - 12:05 AM
| Category: Web Sites
| © 2007 SF Signal
Nice "Sci-Fi's Law of Jude" article. Quoting the first comment there regarding Spielberg's A.I. (Spoiler Alert):
"...when benevolent space aliens arrive on earth and thaw out said little boy..."
I'm amazed at the number of people who misunderstood the ending of A.I. in this manner. Those space aliens were robots. The little boy: also a robot. The whole movie was about robots. Why the nearly universal confusion?
It seems to have prevented all meaningful discussion of the actual ending: humans are nowhere to be found on a frozen earth, but their machines have continually improved themselves for thousands of years, attaining god-like powers which they use for peaceful purposes (as far as we can see). Something like the Asimov/Moravec view that robots are just our children and we should not fear being replaced by them any more than we fear that our organic children and grandchildren will replace us and take over (which they will). Is this outcome likely, desirable, satisyfing? I've never heard the discussion get that far.
Posted by Grant on Monday September 24, 2007 at 12:48 PM
Good points, Grant. And insightful observations! The usual impressions I see about AI are usually the "meh" variety and so, I suppose, no one is interested in further discussion.
Posted by John on Monday September 24, 2007 at 2:30 PM