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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
Huh! Silly bag of mostly water! How can you mention Astro Boy and dare to leave out 8th Man?
And as long as comic characters are on the board, let's mention the house/armor AI "Jarvis" from the Iron Man movies.
It occasionally surprises me that I've mostly written stories with "weak" AI in them, though my Verdant series includes a "weak" AI that may or may not be approaching sentience, thanks to the events of Verdant Skies (I'm purposely keeping it vague, though I'll clear up the sub-story if I ever write a third book).
To me, the AI sentience matter--can it be considered "alive", does it have a "soul"?--is a 20th century trope that I believe we're already moving past with Iron Man's Jarvis and other similar creations. Its parallel trope, the humanoid robot, is a late-19th/20th century trope, which is also left behind by the 21st century. The matter of soul will forever be an intellectual exercise only, as long as we cannot prove the soul exists. The only real issue is, Can humans deal with AIs as they would with other people? And if so, does that qualify AIs as Persons?
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I apologize for not mentioning "8th Man." I simply overlooked the series when I was writing the anime list, based on the DVDs I had on hand. But it does bring forth a question: Since 8th Man was created from the downloaded memories of a murdered detective, does he fall under the category of an A.I. or a just a human intelligence transplanted into a robot body?