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RE: Steem Basic Income Giveaway (Artificial Intelligence)
Oooooohhhhh, I absolutely loved the Robots stories by Asimov. I would read and reread them every year... and the Foundation novels! I think I missed the hysteria about the phones solar wind hit. As far as I understood, the last major one missed us (on the level of a Carrington event?).
When I'm teaching, I really see the thing that you are describing. Too many students are prepared to offload their critical thinking skills onto a black box (Calculator or Google).
Oh my, we would never have been allowed a calculator in class! Do they even teach the 'times tables' anymore? And there's serious talk about not teaching cursive writing anymore.
Dang, I sound like an old lady! :-)
It's been a while since I've read my Asimov but I remember the characters he created - both human and robot - as if they were real people. Well, not exactly real people, but I remember their stories as if they were maybe real. He created such vivid worlds for us to visit.
Something I just remembered from a different reply I made. The 3laws in robots were eventually superseded by a 0th law in the foundation series!
Wait - no, I don't remember that! Okay, the Foundation series has now moved up on my 'read next' list!
From memory, it was in the extended part of it, not the original set of Foundation? But he linked the two series together.
I'll have to look that up. I only have the original books, although the extended part sounds familiar I don't think I own it. (drat)