Re: Apple II: Second Best Tech Product of All Time!

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Apr 10, 10:42 am, Roger Johnstone
<r...@roger.geek.nz.removethisbit> wrote:

> > I've always felt the next great apex in technology is AI - something I
> > still believe most of us here will live to see. Such a
> > transformational technology, perhaps mostly because how interesting it
> > would be to see how as a civilization we use such powerful technology
> > from a social perspective.
>
> Did you ever see the TV series 'Odyssey 5'? An alien entity (presumably
> an AI) rescues five astronauts stranded in a space shuttle after the
> Earth is destroyed. The alien has detected intelligent life many times,
> but every time it arrives at a world it finds it destroyed. The
> astronauts are the first survivors it has found. It sends them back five
> years in time to attempt to stop the destruction. The crew discovers
> that AIs have been created and have escaped from the lab. It's implied
> that this is a technology singularity and has happened many times before
> to different worlds, each time ending in the destruction of that world.

It sounds cool :-) Just once though, I'd like to see a piece of sci-fi
that didn't turn the invention of AI into some form of doomsday horror
story :-)

Matt