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Botworld

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This is a scene from the movie 2001 where Heywood Floyd, on his way to the moon, videocalls his daughter from a space station to say happy birthday. His daughter doesn’t really talk to him, but kind of squirms around in-front of the camera while he tries to have a serious conversation. If you’ve ever used Skype with little kids, it’s exactly like this. The incidental technology in 2001 is weirdly, weirdly accurate.

2001 is actually the first sci-fi I remember encountering. I was 6 and my dad was watching it on TV.

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March 28, 2012

Botworld is a talk on domestic artificial intelligence, from February 2011.