Re: Who is your favorite AI?

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Apr 23 2003 - 01:23:22 MDT

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    On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 05:32:44PM -0700, Damien Sullivan wrote:
    > I keep hoping some TV show will show
    > the robots multiplying and self-modifying and being quirkily contemptuous of
    > 'death' without being evil.

    The episode "Tachikoma Runaway / A Movie Director's Dream" of Ghost in
    The Shell has something like this (besides the nearly unbearable
    cuteness of a little girl with a cheerful multiton spider-like robot as
    her pet):

    Tachikoma: I don't understand the concept of death. I just think of it
    as a body without ghost. I also don't understand the concept of sorrow.
    I don't think I'm capable of dying.

    Little girl: You can't die?

    Tachikoma: Yeah, because I'm an AI.

    Little girl: So, you won't die if I keep you as a pet?

    Tachikoma: Yeah.

    Little girl: Even if you're run over by a car?

    Tachikoma: Yeah. 

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