Brian Aldiss on A.I. (1 Viewer)

[Norm]

Steven Spielberg's film AI opened in Britain on 21 September. The author of the original story, science fiction writer Brian Aldiss, was never asked to a preview screening--so New Scientist arranged for him to see it. Here Aldiss describes his part in the evolution of the film, lays out his vision for the future of artificial intelligence and asks whether human consciousness could ever be programmed into a machine.
For the rest go here.
Brian Aldiss about AI
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[Edited last by Norm on September 25, 2001 at 04:25 PM]
[Link corrected - Cees Alons]
[Edited last by Cees Alons on September 26, 2001 at 11:51 AM]

 

[SteveGon]

Norm, thanks for the link - that was an interesting article.
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[Jeff Rogers]

Yeah, what right does Brian Aldiss have to be there. He ONLY WROTE THE BOOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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[TheLongshot]

He ONLY WROTE THE BOOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To be truthful, it is a short story, not a book.
The article itself seemed to be more about how Brian's views have changed since he wrote that story all of those years ago rather than the movie itself.
Jason
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[Jacob_St]

Regardless, of whether it's a short story or a novel he had a right to a preview of the movie. Anything less than that is very low class of the studio and the filmmakers involved.