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more about #ai twophrasebark: This explains everything. #futurism more » Bill-Lee: Some people find their greatest pleasure in hard work and labor. My paternal grandfather was an auto mechanic. When he wasn't at work fixing cars, he ... more » Chip Overclock: Although Iain Banks' Culture is maybe the only galactic empire I'd actually care to be a member of, I'm not buying it. While it's fun to believe that... more » t3knomanser: I agree entirely. The purpose of technology is to reduce, and eventually one hopes, eliminate the need to labor to survive. Work for survival's sake ... more » Mathmos: just how do we make the transition to this economy? #futurism more » LittleDragon: "Why shouldn't we, the human race as a whole, build machines to do the hard work we need done, and spend our time enjoying the resulting wealth?" Bec... more » firstanointed: "Why shouldn't we, the human race as a whole, build machines to do the hard work we need done, and spend our time enjoying the resulting wealth?" Umm... more » tetracycloide: the problem with this altruistic scenario is not, or at least not only, that it involves creating robot servants to do our bidding it is that it compl... more » Conrad: If you teach AI about porn would they watch it all day? #futurism more » AmishJohn: Methinks someone needs to read (or re-read) The Humanoids. #futurism more » lightninglouie: More like Iain Banks to me. Bring on the communist sex-change utopia! #futurism more » BadUncle: This is the wrong direction. Legless clones chained to desks are the only real solution to the misery of work. #futurism more » TemporalSword: Uh huh. This is how the robo-apocalypse begins. He's basically advocating laziness. Also, he sounds like every program manager I've ever had. "We'll ... more » J_Frank_Parnell: All well and good until the machines get tired of feeding and fapping us, and decide they want to enjoy the fruits of labor for themselves. Then we be... more » ManchuCandidate: Yes, let's hope that the AIs aren't programmed with the brain patterns of economikal whizzes Jim Cramer, John Thain or Bernie Madoff. #futurism more » SeeingI: By the way, the zombies in "Re-Animator" aren't cannibals, just berserk. more » SeeingI: The "Undead Owen" plotline on Torchwood was just idiotic. No breath, no heartbeat - so why didn't his muscles seize up from oxygen starvation? He's ... more » Sorcha: When Buffy came back to life the second time she wasn't fully human. Spike had that chip in his brain that wouldn't allow him to hurt human, only demo... more » Alizarin: Woot on the Carnivale shout out. I am just finishing the series. It's fantastic! more » RavenNemain: THe X-Files Ep with the genie, "Je Souhaite"? She brings a guy back from the dead, and he definitely has an odor problem; he also can't talk, so his ... more » -
#triviagasm
10 Reasons Not to Bring Someone Back from the Dead
When you've got amazing technologies or strong magical powers, death doesn't have to have the final word. But is bringing the dead back to life always a good idea? We look the reasons it's better to say no to resurrection.
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#artificialintelligence
First-Person Shooters Get Their Own Turing Test
In a twist on the traditional Turing Test, BotPrize asked contestants to program a bot that could play Unreal Tournament 2004 with all the imperfections and trash talk of a real player. See if you can tell human from bot. More » -
#supermarioskynet
The Bar For AI Gets Lowered
Once upon a time, we hoped for robots that could beat humans at cultured, highbrow games like chess. But as society falters and falls around us, it's another game that we hope our robot overlords will master: Super Mario Bros. More » -
#bookreview
The Brightest Artificial Minds Are Fragmentary, And Often Female
A new anthology gives some hints at the cutting edge of storytelling about artificial intelligences. We Think Therefore We Are, just out from Daw, includes a number of brilliant concepts amidst mostly lukewarm writing. More » -
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#todolistsforfuturists
How to Create Artificial Intelligence in Your Spare Time
One of the most popular futurist hobbyhorses is the idea that artificially intelligent machines will soon become ubiquitous and change the world forever. This is an old dream, which may have started with Isaac Asimov's idea that superintelligent computers would take over the geo-political management of Earth (see the final story in I, Robot) and create a more rational world. Early computer geeks like Alan Turing imagined that AI would simply be a perfected human brain, sentient but far more powerful and capable of solving problems humans can't. Most scientists and futurists agree that true AI has the potential to create a better world, but what can you put on your to-do list today that will help make AI a reality in fifty years? Actually, there's quite a lot. More » -
#sexrobots
Hottest Sex Robots Of Science Fiction
Reiko is a pleasure bot, designed to go out and collect sexual experiences for her corporate masters to sell as virtual reality recordings, in the cyber-porn movie I.K.U. She goes to sex raves and transforms from android to human form. Or she hangs out in a glowing pink web, spangled with dildos. Some of the coolest robots in science fiction are designed only for carnal pleasure. We have a roundup, with sexy but work-safe images and one clip, after the jump. More » -
#iamlegend
Movies That Smash the Statue of Liberty
A trailer for the upcoming movie I Am Legend shows Will Smith and his canine buddy wandering an entirely empty New York City. But that's nothing new. Hollywood has always loved to show one of the most bustling cities on the planet smashed to hell and emptied of human life. Check out our list of movies that crush New York under their boots. Special bonus: click through our gallery featuring emptied-out NY, with many mangled Statues of Liberty. More »
