I have a lot of random pieces of SF short fiction, in various stages of completion, and am staring at an unusual form of writer’s block. Everytime I sit down to write or edit; I keep thinking….”how is this realistic?”
I keep coming back to the comments Steven Hawking and Elon Musk made last year about the threat of AI. And I keep thinking, “how does this work address emergent AI” I’m not normally a “singularity” kind of guy, but if two people way more intelligent than me think it’s worth addressing, I keep trying to shoehorn it into places where it doesn’t belong.
It makes me think that I should just write a story about emergent AI….but I don’t even know where to begin. To be fair, I think that’s part of why the AI problem is so scary, no one knows where to begin. No one knows what it’ll look like. /Shrug.
To those few who read this, here is a good, plain english, breakdown on what I’m talking about.
http://io9.com/what-do-bhopal-and-chernobyl-have-to-do-with…
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