Erik Strandness on the promise and perils of AI following The Big Conversation between Lord Martin Rees and Dr John Wyatt

In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the main characters, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, are rescued from deep space by the Heart of Gold, a spaceship equipped with revolutionary technology developed by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation which incorporated GPP or Genuine People Personality into all the mechanical accessories of the ship such that each one exhibits a particular human temperament. Marvin the paranoid android, a GPP prototype, described it to Ford and Arthur as, “Absolutely ghastly… All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful… (Register to read the rest of the article)