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In Which a Goal was Set

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Youth I've had interest in artificial intelligence since I was a wee lad, from science fiction books to TV series to movies. It opened up my imagination to worlds that could be, populated by strange and fascinating and terrible beings barely on the edge of my comprehension. ____________________________________________________________ Books  Issac Asimov's Robot series I, Robot, a collection of short stories by Issac Asimov In Issac Asimov's Robot series ( Wikipedia link , Goodreads link ) , robots were governed by three simple laws of robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. But these simple laws interacted with the situation that they were in to create inter...