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Stuart · 11-02-2018, 00:23

I'm enjoying it. Interesting ideas. The idea of being able to swap bodies. The idea of AIs becoming sentient, realising how badly we treat them (especially those who happily take advantage of the fact they are not living, therefore cannot have rights and do all sorts of perverse stuff to them), then rebelling.

That last one may sound stupid. It is, if you assume that the technology behind AI won't improve much. It will, and given 3 or 4 decades, the character you shoot in the current GTA, Farcry or Call of Duty (or whatever FPS franchise exists) at the time may actually qualify as sentient.

Look how far Games have come since the 70s and 80s, and the march of technology has accelerated since.

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Stuart - Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Somewhere Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone Posts: 26,536	Re: Altered Carbon I'm enjoying it. Interesting ideas. The idea of being able to swap bodies. The idea of AIs becoming sentient, realising how badly we treat them (especially those who happily take advantage of the fact they are not living, therefore cannot have rights and do all sorts of perverse stuff to them), then rebelling. That last one may sound stupid. It is, if you assume that the technology behind AI won't improve much. It will, and given 3 or 4 decades, the character you shoot in the current GTA, Farcry or Call of Duty (or whatever FPS franchise exists) at the time may actually qualify as sentient. Look how far Games have come since the 70s and 80s, and the march of technology has accelerated since.