Somewhat interesting article even if you aren't a semi-reformed science fiction kid, which I happen to be. How, given this status, I can judge its interestingness to the general population is a question that will go unanswered at the moment. Just check it out if you like that sort of thing or are bored.
But at least take away the
Three Laws:
[ 1 ] A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
[ 2 ] A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders conflict with the First Law.
[ 3 ] A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
There's also a
Zeroth Law, which was added later, which is actually the most interesting, in no small part because it was coded/codified by the robots themselves. (This page's entire discussion is pretty geeky, but pretty good. Sass that hoopy
Meta-Law of Robotics.)
Who knew Issac Asimov died of AIDS?
In other news,
I, Robot looks like it's going to be completely terrible.
# posted by
Gerry Canavan @ 7:52 AM
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