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Science fiction writers have explored the idea of artificial intelligence and robots for over a century. As early as the 18th century, Jonathan Swift depicted a gigantic mechanical brain that could generate books on any subject. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some stories envisioned a worldwide artificial intelligence becoming the end point of evolution, with humans becoming extinct or living passive lives. Writers also considered the implications of robotics, with some robots threatening to become Earth's new masters and displace humans, while Isaac Asimov offered a more positive vision of benevolent robots due to laws preventing them from harming humans.

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Science fiction writers have explored the idea of artificial intelligence and robots for over a century. As early as the 18th century, Jonathan Swift depicted a gigantic mechanical brain that could generate books on any subject. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some stories envisioned a worldwide artificial intelligence becoming the end point of evolution, with humans becoming extinct or living passive lives. Writers also considered the implications of robotics, with some robots threatening to become Earth's new masters and displace humans, while Isaac Asimov offered a more positive vision of benevolent robots due to laws preventing them from harming humans.

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Science Fiction and Computing


The image of the mechanical brain or knowledge engine ha a ur!riingl" long hitor"
in #etern literature$ % far back a &onathan 'wift( )ulli*er( Tra*el +,-./01 we find a
gigantic engine that can create book on e*er" concei*able ub2ect$ #hile thi wa a
atirical 2ab at thinker who were uhering in a rational1 mechanitic como1 the idea
that the cunning mechanical automaton being created for the amuement of !rince
might omeda" think did not eem o far3fetched$ Thi belief would be trengthened in
the coming two centurie b" the trium!h of the 4ndutrial 5e*olution$ 4n &ule Verne(
Pari in the Twentieth 6entur" +written in ,8/301 giant calculating machine and facimile
tranmiion were ued to coordinate buine acti*itie$ % earl" a the beginning of
the .0th centur"1 writer had been e7!loring what might ha!!en if ome combination of
artificial brain and robot offered the !oibilit" of catering to all human need$ 4n 8$ 9$
:orter( The 9achine 'to!1 !ublihed in ,;0;1 !eo!le no longer e*en ha*e to lea*e
their inectlike cell becaue e*en their ocial need are !ro*ided through machine3
mediated communication not unlike toda"( 4nternet$ 4n the ,;30 and ,;<01 other
writer uch a &ohn #$ 6am!bell and &ack #illiamon wrote torie in which a
worldwide artificial intelligence became the end !oint of e*olution1 with human either
becoming e7tinct or li*ing tatic1 !ointle li*e$
'cience fiction writer had alo been conidering the ramification of a related
technolog"1 robotic$ The term robot came from =arel 6> a!ek( 5$?$5$ +5oum(
?ni*eral 5obot0$ %lthough the robot had a human face1 it could ha*e inhuman moti*e
and threaten to become 8arth( new mater1 di!lacing human$ 4aac %imo* offered a
more benign *iion1 thank to the law of robotic embedded in hi machine( *er"
circuitr"$ The firt law tate1 % robot hall not harm a human being or1 through inaction1
caue a human being to come to harm$ 4n the real world1 of coure1 artificial intelligence
had no uch built3in retriction +ee artificial intelligence0$
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