I was probably 9 years old when I decided I wanted my best friend to be a robot, preferable a cool hovering robot like V.I.N.Cent from ‘The Black Hole’ who could fire lasers and quote Cicero and such. In the ensuing years, I’ve gotten no closer to my goal of bonding with an artificial intelligence (I saw a Roomba once), but I still can’t help but think that it’d be fun to pal around with a robot, even a clinically depressed one like Marvin, and I’ve long believed that R2-D2 is the heart, soul and narrative spine of the ‘Star Wars’ franchise, which leads us to today’s paranoid android query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) actually thinks that even a murderous robot might be more useful than some of the folk I’ve worked with in call centers, asking: Artificial Intelligence: Wonderful boon or the end of everything?
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Given how “wonderful” job world leaders today are doing, I’d welcome our AI overlords of every kind.