The Next Big Writer — Robots, drones, and AI

Re: Robots, drones, and AI

null@example.com (Dirk B) — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:06:58 +0000

When I was really young, my father took us to see his mother for the first time. I still remember looking up at her face and asking her why she had a moustache?

My cousin managed to top that one though. I won't repeat the actual words, but there's a rather offensive expression in German about Polish people, and I guess someone used it in front of my cousin when he was maybe 4 years old. One day, my aunt took him upstairs to see a neighbour, who happened to be... Polish. My aunt said she almost died when he said it. Lucky for her, the woman barely spoke German.

From the mouths of babes.

Re: Robots, drones, and AI

null@example.com (Dirk B) — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 19:55:33 +0000

You could do space battles that way. Automated ships fighting automated ships, and automated ships dropping bombs, with drones and perhaps physical robots to land and seize infrastructure.

By the way, Leonardo's taxi had an AI (MIND) named Stronza, which is Italian for bitch. It was his ex-wife's car, thus he renamed the MIND. Of course, it would be no fun if Stronza had done the craziest driving. My favorite moment was actually suggested by Kdot. As the taxi tries to shake several pursuing missiles, it buzzed a pizza delivery drone, which then exploded in a superheated ball of metal, plastic, and mozzarella.

I named his wife Donna Pelosa, which is Italian for hairy woman. I'll probably rename her to something slightly less offensive. I wonder what the Italian word is for hermaphrodite?

Just looked it up: ermaphrodito. Admittedly, that word is no longer considered politically correct.

Robots, drones, and AI

null@example.com (George FLC) — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:24:59 +0000

A few days ago, Ukraine launched an attack with unmanned vehicles and drones against Russian forces. So, in the year 2024 we have now seen a robotic battle at least from one side. What will battles look like in the year 2500, or 3000 or beyond? And I have to wonder if AI will help to make the situation even more interesting. We will have all robot wars with people simply making adjustments to the battlefield? Therefore, we sci-fi writers might need to consider how we construct battles, farmers, doctors, factories, and a host of other things.

Dirk has a great taxicab driver, Leonardo. I'm not sure AI can do crazy yet. And I'll be disappointed to lose Leonardo to AI. However, it is a possibility.

Therefore, how do we keep ahead of all this? My initial thoughts are to reduce human head count significantly. But is that reasonable?

Any thoughts?

George FLC (Future Learning Curve)