From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 00:17:20 MDT
At 09:14 PM 6/18/03 -0700, Hal wrote:
>In the book The Golden Age, the truth-detection was done by the
>Sophotechs, the super-AIs millions of times smarter than people.
>These AIs were also trustworthy ("friendly"?), so if they learned
>someone's secrets it was OK. It was a sort of literal deus ex machina
>solution to the problem.
FWIW, and by grisly contrast, in Alexander Jablokov's NIMBUS (1993),
corporate heavyweights have their own neural software partitioned and those
parts containing secrets are encrypted and padlocked, available to them
only during office hours.
Damien Broderick
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