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Artificial intelligence is a recurrent theme in science fiction, whether utopian, emphasising the potential benefits, or dystopian, emphasising the dangers. The notion of machines with human-like intelligence dates back at least to Samuel Butler 's 1872 novel Erewhon .
Fictional scenarios typically involve a drawn-out conflict against malicious artificial intelligence (AI) or robots with anthropomorphic motives. In contrast, some scholars believe that a takeover by a future advanced AI, if it were to happen in real life, would succeed or fail rapidly, and would be a disinterested byproduct of the AI's pursuit of its own alien goals, rather than a product of ...
Opinion: Misleading stories and pictures and voices and videos are all over, but it's possible to figure out what's trustworthy, writes Greg Ganske.
Nearly 200,000 books written by a wide range of authors, including Nora Roberts, are being used to train artificial intelligence systems, according to a recent report. No one asked for the writers ...
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. The week's bestselling books, Dec. 1 Skip to main ...
The Games Machine, a vastly powerful computer that plays a major role in A. E. van Vogt's The World of Null-A (serialized in Astounding Science Fiction in 1945) The Brain , a supercomputer with a childish, human-like personality appearing in the short story " Escape! " by Isaac Asimov (1945)
Here are the 16 best new book releases this week: November 26 to December 2, 2024. Yes, it’s a slow week for new books. ... Three works of fiction give insight into what is happening right now.
The earliest examples were all presented as the results of divine intervention and include: The dry bones that came to life in the Book of Ezekiel (Chapter 37); three-legged self-navigating tables created by the god Hephaestus (Iliad xviii); and the statue Galatea, brought to life by the prayers of her creator Pygmalion.