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4 stars
I, Robot is a fun set of thought experiments about the Laws of Robotics, and I read it most recently for nostalgia. The characters are a bit flat, but the book is short so I don't mind. Asimov writes off Communism and Capitalism by acting like Machine Learning will make those contradictions irrelevant, despite seeming to understand that automation is a workers' rights issue, and that bothers me. Maybe it's just his characters talking and he expects the reader to read between the lines.
Ultimately, Asimov seems to be stuck in the idealist trap of believing that AI is unbiased and, with the proper constraints, better than humans at even ethical problems. That is an annoying ideology that runs rampant despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. (Telling your AI not to hallucinate is silly and ineffective, but is just the kind of thing that would end up in one …
I, Robot is a fun set of thought experiments about the Laws of Robotics, and I read it most recently for nostalgia. The characters are a bit flat, but the book is short so I don't mind. Asimov writes off Communism and Capitalism by acting like Machine Learning will make those contradictions irrelevant, despite seeming to understand that automation is a workers' rights issue, and that bothers me. Maybe it's just his characters talking and he expects the reader to read between the lines.
Ultimately, Asimov seems to be stuck in the idealist trap of believing that AI is unbiased and, with the proper constraints, better than humans at even ethical problems. That is an annoying ideology that runs rampant despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. (Telling your AI not to hallucinate is silly and ineffective, but is just the kind of thing that would end up in one of Asimov's stories.)
Worth reading, fun to read, but only 4 stars.
