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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">21st Century Robot: The Dr. Simon Egerton Stories - Brian David Johnson</h1>
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2020-07-04
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/david-johnson/">#david johnson</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/robotics/">#robotics</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/it/">#it</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books-2020/">#books:2020</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16087659-21st-century-robot">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the
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people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian David
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Johnson's duties as Intel's futurist-in-residence. In this fascinating book,
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Johnson provides a collection of science fiction prototyping stories that
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attempt to answer the question.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>This is a hard book to read. Not due its writing style or large paragraphs of
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something of the kind, but because you have no idea what what is real and what
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is not.</p>
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<p>There are some stories about the "21st Century Robot Foundation", which is a
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foundation to give free, open source access to robot designs and code. Problem
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is, some of those are interleaved with fiction stories that has a character of
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the same name of someone in the foundation and then you never know if that's a
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cool extended thingy, actual coincidence or just plain... laziness (although I
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reckon that's a strong word for this).</p>
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<p>There are some things that pissed me off. For example, saying "the robot brain
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is the hardware and software, what we call artificial intelligence, or AI". AI
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is way more than just hardware and software, you have to <em>train</em> something to
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make it an AI, or it is just a bunch of reactive code with not actual
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"intelligence". Maybe it was dumbed down to reach the general population
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instead of going with proper terms, but it just annoys people that <em>do</em> know.
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And talking about "apps to extend the robot personality" also seems a bit
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far-fetched in how AI works.</p>
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<p>So, maybe the idea is great and all, but ideas without backing facts are just
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dreams. And for someone running a foundation, lacking the facts feels...
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weird.</p>
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