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Memories of the 28th Century

Miscellaneous thoughts about miscellaneous matters

  1. Eternal Promise of AI

    by , 12-09-2016 at 03:24 PM (Memories of the 28th Century)
    While writing about migration, both legal and illegal, I started thinking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) with respect to that. People have been writing about AI taking jobs from people for decades. The word robot itself was introduced in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. "Rossum's Universal Robots" (1920), and that play is about robots taking away jobs from people. In 1950 Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut was published, and that novel was about automatic machinery taking jobs from people. I ...
  2. Eternal Promise of AI

    by , 12-09-2016 at 03:24 PM (Memories of the 28th Century)
    While writing about migration, both legal and illegal, I started thinking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) with respect to that. People have been writing about AI taking jobs from people for decades. The word robot itself was introduced in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. "Rossum's Universal Robots" (1920), and that play is about robots taking away jobs from people. In 1950 Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut was published, and that novel was about automatic machinery taking jobs from people. I ...