RE: Who is your favorite AI?

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 10:06:47 MDT

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    Anders wrote:

    > Other honorable mentions: Ratio of Damien's _The White Abacus_,
    > Colossus in _The Forbin Project_ and Yatima in Egan's _Diaspora_.
    >
    ### Interesting you mention Yatima. Of course you are right in classifying
    it as an AI, we all read the description of its creation by the polis, but I
    had a strong sense of humanity in this being. He had passion, stupid ideas,
    and eventually messed himself up pretty bad, which are features and outcomes
    we tend to expect from humans. It's very good of Egan to show the world from
    the viewpoint of an independently developing AI maintaining a human (but not
    primitively anthropomorphic) side.

    Rafal

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