ch00f 17 points 3 years ago

Asimov: "The 'robots take over the world' plot is overdone. I think humans would make robots intrinsically safe through these three laws."

Movie: "What if the robots interpreted the three laws in such a way that they decided to take over the world??!?"

The only good part of that movie was when Will Smith's sidekick was like "this thing runs on gasoline! Don't you know gasoline explodes?!"

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fubo 10 points 3 years ago

A running theme of Asimov's Robot stories is that the Three Laws are inadequate. Robots that aren't smart and insightful enough keep melting down their positronic brains when they reach contradictions or are placed in irreconcilable situations. Eventually Daneel and Giskard come up with the Zeroth Law; and if I recall correctly they only manage that because Daneel is humaniform and Giskard is telepathic.

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And the robots do take over, eventually!

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morriscox 4 points 3 years ago

Wasn't there books that he wrote that were about flaws in the Three Laws?

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Algaroth 8 points 3 years ago

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dystop 6 points 3 years ago