Science Fiction University - Ep 13: 'The Forbin Project'
The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal
Driftglass and Blue Gal
4.8 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University. |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to Science Fiction University. |
| 0:18.0 | We're your fan and writer hosts. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Blue Gow. And I'm Drift Glass and you can visit Science Fiction University. We're your fan and writer host. I'm Blue Gow. |
| 0:24.9 | And I'm Drift Glass, and you can visit Science Fiction University at our website, |
| 0:29.3 | sciencefiction university.com, where you can also contribute to this podcast. |
| 0:31.9 | There is a Patreon button at our website. |
| 0:34.7 | Or you can mail also letter and our contribution, care of Science Fiction University, P.O. Box 9133, Springfield, Illinois, |
| 0:40.8 | 6279.1. In episode 6 of Science Fiction University, we may be passing reference to one of our |
| 0:47.9 | favorite hard-to-find classics. Colossus, the Forbin Project. I wish I could do that |
| 0:54.1 | voice, Blue Gail, but I just can't |
| 0:55.6 | today. Well, now that AI is in the news every damn day, we decided it was time to revisit |
| 1:02.1 | this 1970 riff on the oldest plot in science fiction, creating a thing that you shouldn't have. |
| 1:09.4 | First, some history and some definitions and some rules. |
| 1:12.8 | For the purposes of this discussion, we are limiting the definition of artificial intelligence to a machine that is built by someone which becomes self-aware, either by accident, or design. |
| 1:24.8 | Which means not Frankenstein, which is a story of a creature assembled from |
| 1:28.5 | dead bodies with a human brain, and not a human consciousness uploaded into a machine. |
| 1:34.6 | Yes, not Spock's brain either. |
| 1:36.8 | No, no, for lots of reasons, not Spock's brain. |
| 1:40.5 | Also, for the purposes of discussion, we will not be citing every example of AI in science fiction, because there are thousands of them. |
| 1:51.5 | Yeah, they're everywhere. |
| 1:53.1 | But here's one example. |
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