From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 14:50:39 MDT
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> Look at what happened when A.I. passed from the hands of Stanley "A
> Clockwork Orange" Kubrick into the hands of Steven "E.T." Spielberg.
> Wouldn't it be ironic if the *original* A.I. script was secretly the
> brainchild of Jeremy Rifkin? That could be exactly what happens to us.
Correction: I had heard that A.I. was originally dark and brooding, and
assumed this meant Kubrick had been dark and brooding about the AIs.
However, I have now been informed that Kubrick was actually very positive
about AIs - he thought that AIs were the next step in human evolution -
and that A.I. was originally dark and brooding about humans, not the AIs.
I therefore withdraw the above argument.
-- -- -- -- --
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:08:20 MST