Service Model
I read most of the wonderful Murderbot series, and since I hadn’t finished it, there’s no review posted yet. In the same vein, though, Service Model is that self-aware, self-deprecating machine intelligence who runs afoul of the laws. Sort of. I just, in my mind, in the opening pages, all I could hear was “Virgo. Very Virgo.”
That’s “paralysis by analysis.” Or?
“Analytic paralytic.”
Service Model
Must start with serious riff on Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics” if that’s still a thing.
“Prognosis suggests that if feeling was an option then the pertinent emotions would be fear and anxiety.” Page 63.
Perhaps we human assign too many humanist characteristics to our machines, but don’t anthropomorphize computers — they hate that.
It’s not an unreasonable idea, librarians and the knowledge they protect, might be our only saviors. Back to my librarian fetish?
Marvin the Paranoid Android, Hitchhiker’s Guide fame? The sentient space ship, was that Plan 9? No, it was John Carpenter’s Dark Star. Maybe. Memory is porous, possibly damaged from watching a movie in college classroom, more than three decades back.
Interesting novel, quite good, with a humorous, pulp-like, classical feel, possibly with previous allusions.
Service Model
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