"I, Robot" ( Isaac Asimov ) & "Blade Runner" ( Ridley Scott )

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Compares robots in Asimov's novel & replicants in Scott's film. Discusses the paradox that , even as human beings in the real world seek to develop machines that can think, it is also apparent that these same human beings fear such machines.

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" Artificial intelligence is a dream of mankind, but it is also an elusive one. Science has created machines that can emulate certain human thought processes at high speed, but these machines cannot really be said to think. In fiction, however, the problems involved can be solved, and robots have been presented in fiction which are very human in the way they think. However, even as human beings in the real world seek to develop machines that can think, it is also apparent that these same human beings fear such machines. In fiction, this is often addressed by the development of rules for the conduct of robots and androids, and yet often these rules can be bent quite far by the intelligent machines at which the rules are directed. Isaac Asimov created perhaps the most famous set of such rules in his Three Laws of robotics, logical rules that the author uses to.."

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