Intelligent Machines Threaten Humankind
News Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov anticipated a potential menace. Perhaps more worryingly, he claims it would be futile to try to build Asimov's laws into a robot. Later Asimov added a futher rule to combat a more sinister prospect: "A robot may...
[January 23, 2001, 13:12]
Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
Talkback Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, an earlier Science Fiction construct that aimed to rein in the potential conduct of a futuristic AI robot as rules that prohibit harm to come to humans. Indeed, Asimov's first two laws state that (1) a robot...
[March 28, 2006, 6:26]
Silicon Paradise? Techies Get New Offer
News No, this is not an excerpt from one of Isaac Asimov's works. If Silicon Valley were to be built in India, would it stop software professionals from wanting to migrate to the US? The co-founders of Catalytic Software, Eric Engstrom, Christopher...
[February 2, 2001, 9:39]
Artificial Intelligence: Working Backwards From HAL
News In 1942 Isaac Asimov put forward his three laws of robotics in the short story Runaround, which was later republished as part of the short story collection, I, Robot. The phrase 'artificial intelligence' was first coined by John McCarthy at a...
[March 27, 2006, 15:40]
A Very British Cyborg
Leader As science fiction writer, Isaac Asimov was adapt at fusing contemporary facts with theorised future outcomes, more accurately known as making things up. He first introduced his three laws of robotics in the short story "Runaround" written in 1942.
[November 10, 2005, 15:45]
