” Terminator ” was released 40 years ago. Skynet was the product of humans creating software that gains artificial intelligence and becomes self-aware. Skynet blows up mankind. It was science fiction that I thought could happen, but not in my lifetime.
” I, Robot ” was released 20 years ago. It also had the ” good idea gone bad ” theme, with manmade software gaining self-awareness. It didn’t want to destroy mankind; it just wanted to control it. By 2004, I thought artificial intelligence was moving way too fast and that Skynet maybe was closer than I thought 20 years before.
Jack Carr’s fifth book, “Only the Dead,” brought in an AI “all-knowing” self-aware quantum computing super-AI. “It” resides in a secret military base. Only a handful of people know “her” true abilities. She can instantly “see” everything connected to any computer or near one. Carr said : […]
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