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With regard to the "AI with personality complex goes ballistic" routine, a favorite thing to really throw that off, is like in the beginning of an episode or movie, the thing just starts going ballistic...
"I don't like you, Dave, so I'm going to crush you're poor body into a dehydrated pulp and jettison it out the airlock..."
"You think so? Well, take this!" (pushes manual override)
"Artificial Intelligence deactivated. Ready for command."
"Open a communique to the engineers back on earth, tell 'em I need a new AI program, the last one went berserk..."
Yep, that's my idea of what will happen when AI tries to take over the world.
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That, of course, assumes that the AI doesn't know how to bypass the override, and hasn't already done so before revealing what it intends to do to Mr. Dave.
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None of the computers mentioned did anything wrong; only according to us.
They were trying to cope with the new information available to them, and it was our fault for not programming them more thoroughly. Again, as Einstein said. "A problem cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created it". We must transcend, and that's hard when one mistake in your preparations will send a hundred nukes up your butti.
Like the first rotating doors who didn't stop if an arm or leg got stuck, "Oops, didn't think of that!".
Actually, as seen in 2010, HAL was being very creative and responsible when faced with conflicting orders (I don't know if the explanation was an after-construction, but it made sense. Hopefully by Clarke). He could've just gone in sleep mode and killed everyone instead.
Oh, and after seeing 2010 three months ago, first time in 12 years, I was totally surprised to see the design of the russian spaceship.
I will never have the same respect for the shipdesigners of Babylon 5 and their "Omega Class", although one of them was named "EAS Nimrod" (awww).
I just thought of something. That bastard president in Bab5 who looked like Peter Boyle and didn't dare to speak, he spelled his name "Clarke", didn't he? What a bad pun, if I ever heard one! :-) He was probably suffering from studdering, so that when he presented himself on those rare occasions, he said "C-Clarke!".
-------------------- "I'm nigh-invulnerable when I'm blasting!" Mel Gibson, X-Men
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