Q&A with Selso Xisto discussion

What's everyone's favorite AI's in books and movies?

HAL 9000 - hands down! We wouldn't be talking about AIs today without him... and to think Clarke wrote about Hal before we'd even landed on the moon...!

Does it have to be books or movies? ;) Because I would love to answer GLADoS from the computer games Portal & Portal 2. She starts out as emotionless and antagonistic, but eventually you realize a certain justification for her actions, and she becomes kind of tragic.

Otherwise I would go with Sharon Apple from Macross Plus; that's a series of four Japanese animation direct-to-video releases (later compiled into one "movie"). Sharon (named after a computer company) is a computer-generated singer based on a brain scan of one of the programmers...and she starts acting on that woman's suppressed emotions.

Oh yes, GladOs is a great choice! The cake is a lie though.

Portal 1 & 2 have some of the best writing in any form- movie, game or book.

Marvin the Paranoid Android from the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy !

Marvin does have a brain the size of a planet but he'd be a bit of a downer wouldn't he??

Oh, good point. Games or anything else count too!

Ann, I love Marvin! I would have to second that vote.

HAL 9000 that was a freaking terror machine but so calm!!! LOL Freaky

Emily

Hal was really misunderstood! did anyone read the awesome sequel 2010 Odyssey Two? They explain the real reason Hal went crazy and killed everyone... it wasn't his faullt!

I have to go with S.A.R.A.H. Carter's house in Eureka. You gotta love a house with a sense of humor.

Oh yes, that's a good choice! I'd want her to have a conversation with Marvin!

Favorite AI? I'm a fan of Robert Heinlein and his "Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" sci-fi novel about a revolutions in a Lunar Penal Colony. His AI had class and a sense of humor. He/She was HOLMES IV ("High-Optional, Logical, Multi-Evaluating Supervisor, Mark IV")

Ooooh, I haven't read that one... Sounds really interesting. Heinlein is one of the few scifi authors I haven't read a lot of. Has his scifi aged well?