Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Heros In Action: Bill Thompson

Remember David Levy and his alarming prediction of human-robot relationships? If not, please refresh your memory. Fellow freedom fighter Bill Thompson of the BBC recently interviewed this fauxbot and totally put him in his place in a heroic piece entitled "Falling out of love with robots." This man has the right idea about the place for bots in our society, writing: "I want my computers to be perfectly predictable because they are tools, extensions of my will." Amen to that, Bill. Way to spread the word.

2 comments:

Bill said...

Of course I may in fact be a bot masquerading as a human - and may really want you meat types to be my slaves, carrying out my instructions...

Jordan said...

well I gotta say, being able to find this obscure and irrelevant website is somewhat suspect.