#positronic brain

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Data's beautiful brain

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I recently picked up my old Asimov books to reread the robot stories and now it's making my brain mush. I forgot how much I liked the Robot novels (Although I've only reread Caves of Steel at this point--but I've read the series many times; it's just been a few years

Giskard my beloved

[datadiving]

[rabidpeep]

A robot may not... ...through action or inaction...

Can we talk about how strange it is that so many stories that have strong/true AI and humanoid robots present the Asimov’s 3 Laws of Robotics as if they’re a given?

Because it reads so often as “Hey, this is real and a good idea!” Much of Asimov’s books talked about exactly why that was a problem, and that any set of axioms is incomplete to guide a safer world. It simply leads to those seeking to find loopholes around them or too stunted a response to help.

And for those that don’t know, this is in a world where it’s not programming. In the series, it’s positronic brains. This is a piece of hardware that incorporates antimatter in it’s construction. This means that not only does it require a skilled technician to actually program the hardware manually, it means that it’s sometimes dangerous to do it. Those laws are baked in, the robots are incapable of defying them, or else their brains literally cook themselves with positron buildup.

It BRICKS the robot to fail to follow these pathways.

And there’s still ways to get around them, to have the robots kill people, to have the robots rebel against their masters, to be incapable of saving someone right in front of them. 

But... there might be something to Better Than Us. I’ll give it a shot, I hope that I like it. Because there’s not enough science fiction movies or shows these days that use it for more than simple formulas that’ve been done again and again. I want to see new, I want to see more. I want to dive into a story like this and feel like a kid again, staying up late under a lamp and reading the next tale of Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Ovilaw...

I remain hopeful, so I’m gonna give this show a shot.

[positronic-crisis]

Data meets his father - Chapter 7 Excerpt

“Data,” he said, grinning.

Data tilted his head. “Father?”

“That’s right. I see you still know how I look.”

“That is very easy to remember as you look like me,” Data explained.

Noonien Soong laughed quietly. “I always liked the way you saw yourself and the world.”

“You are dead,” Data said.

“I am dead?” Noonien asked, frowned and then laughed, like he didn’t really care. “I thought as much.”

from Chapter 7 "Now Active" of "The Dormant Program"

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