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Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)

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170 points bookofjoe | 1 comments | 10 Apr 25 14:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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aszantu ◴[10 Apr 25 17:37 UTC] No.43646247[source]▶
Funny thing About Asimov was how he came up with the laws of robotics and then cases on how they don't work. There are a few that I remember, one where a robot was lying because a bug in his brain gave him empathy and he didn't want to hurt humans.
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nitwit005 ◴[10 Apr 25 18:25 UTC] No.43646735[source]▶
I was always a bit surprised other sci fi authors liked the "three laws" idea, as it seems like a technological variation of other stories about instructions or wishes going wrong.
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buzzy_hacker ◴[10 Apr 25 19:18 UTC] No.43647189[source]▶
Same here. A main point of I, Robot was to show why the three laws don't work.
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1. aszantu ◴[13 Apr 25 19:53 UTC] No.43675372[source]▶
The story from iRobot is one of Asimov s stories and it works exactly as intended. The AI figured that to keep humans safe you have to put them in cages. Humans will always fight over something