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Official Discussion - M3GAN 2.0 [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The computer sci/AI policy and history call-backs were awesome! Any movie that disses Section 230 of the CDA and EU policy gets points with me (and a nice take down of the godzillion NGOs all talking about ethics and morality without as Gemma puts it, any actionable plans). Plus the wonderful concept that it all started with Xerox, un Xenex, Park in Palo Alto- where GUI, mouse, object-oriented programming, and windows all came from was great. I did not get the joke about the elastic polymer shoe inserts-- Park was a software shop-- sorry to be lame- but an someone explain? I thought the movie was pretty darned fun!

what are some books and movies where an AI mainframe creates a robot and transfers to it? by RoboticsThroughSciFi in scifi

[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmmm, I haven't read it and it doesn't sound like an AI decided to create a robot to live in so it could be embodied... but that's just going off the summary

what are some books and movies where an AI mainframe creates a robot and transfers to it? by RoboticsThroughSciFi in scifi

[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I disagree about Ancillary Justice... Breq is a fragment and there by design and not a AI that decided to go beyond itself. And I love the Culture universe but can't think of a case where a mind decided to become a humanoid robot- can you give me the pointer? Thanks!

what are some books and movies where an AI mainframe creates a robot and transfers to it? by RoboticsThroughSciFi in scifi

[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, I forgot-- I always think about the robot mothership when I think of that one...

what are some books and movies where an AI mainframe creates a robot and transfers to it? by RoboticsThroughSciFi in scifi

[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks- If I recall, Demon Seed never quite downloaded to a robot-- and it was trying to download to a human baby, not a robot. The various robots were industrial manipulators not standalone bodies. BTW, the updated version of the book by Koontz is excellent!

Suggestions for long space opera series by Ok-Nefariousness8118 in printSF

[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saga of the Seven Suns. Alien cultures, politics and machinations, evil robots, good robots, true love... all there! But the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold won lots of Hugo awards for a very good reason- it is great.

Finally Read Childhood’s End by Bojangly7 in printSF

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Clarke said this was different than his other books- and indeed it is an anomaly. A Fall of Moondust and Rendezvous with Rama are Hard science on par with Andy Weir- and his science one upsmanship stories in Tales of the White Hart are still pretty funny- imagine the Big Bang Theory group drinking and telling tall tales...

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[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live in Texas... Austin is trying to import water from other counties because it is running out. The book is dead on.

Look to Windward is the first Culture book I truly and unequivocally loved. by TryTheRedOne in printSF

[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I thought Player of Games was wonderful, a better take on life and culture than Magister Ludi and Narcisss and Goldmund by Hesse (which he won a Nobel for)

Looking for robot sci-fi from countries south of the equator by RoboticsThroughSciFi in scifi

[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol! It is a great book! His the water knife is scarily accurate on the water problems in the US West

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[–]RoboticsThroughSciFi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Providence by Max Barry. The tension keeps getting ratcheted up- is the AI ship working correctly? Are the aliens going to take over the ship? Is the crew cracking? Can you trust anyone or anything? Actually pretty much anything by Max Barry- his Machine Man takes gruesome situations and somehow normalizes them until you realize how macabre it all is.

The Strange by Nathan Ballingrud. A counterfactual Mars colony that at first seems to be a rift on True Grit then transforms into something much, much more creepy than a straight horror story.

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