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I can only imagine how futuristic and ahead of its time this sounded when first published. AI and robots becoming free-thinkers? We‘ve seen a burst of AI books hit the shelves over the past few years (or it seems that way to me), so I decided to read the one that‘s been sitting on mine for years. And I loved it.

An interview from a journalist with renowned Robopsychologist Susan Calvin who worked for U.S. Robots. Stories are individually told from the beginning of the use of robots as Nannies to the powerhouse Machines that run the world, Dr Calvin has been there every step of the way. An interesting take on societies‘ reliance and yet aversion to robots. Are robots built to protect humans from themselves? Who knows 🤷🏻‍♀️

There is more Asimov in my future.

What did I just read? To say I‘m puzzled would be an understatement. But I think I have to read Book 2 now? Or have an AI online explain it to me.

#manicmonday #letterI @CBee @The_Penniless_Author

? I, Robot (read as part of The Complete Robot) by Asimov
✒ John Irving / Kazuo Ishiguro
? In Bruges
? The IT Crowd
? Imogen Heap
? It's no good (Depeche Mode)

"Don't say you're happy. Out there without me. I know you can't be. Cause it's no good."

Best fictional book title: "I just died in your psalms tonight" (Murder on the Blackpool Express)

Bonus song: Infinity (Jaymes Young)

This one is made up of short stories featuring the same characters over a period of time, each story introduces a theme and explores it.

The stories are thought-provoking and interesting but they're also quite repetitive.

Having said that I still liked this book, it's very engaging and humorous at times.

I recommended, if you like Sci-Fi, this is essential reading! 🤖

Short story dilemmas/puzzles based on robot actions and Asimovs famous Laws of Robotics. I read this once every 10 years. It‘s like a pair of old slippers.Gets more and more weird reading something that was speculative once but is full of archaisms. Asimov doesn‘t write good female characters: More positronic brains than positive women. He almost seems to dislike Susan Calvin. She‘s constantly undermined. Classic but dated🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖7/10 Robots

I thought this was ok. It was neat to see the future projections from the mid-20th century.

#Movie2BookRecs @Klou
Prompt: Chappie

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
#ConflictedWorlds

Day 20 - #Technology

In the year 2035, humanoid robots serve humanity, which is protected by the Three Laws of Robotics. Del Spooner, a homicide detective in the Chicago Police Department, has come to hate and distrust robots after a robot rescued him from a car crash while allowing a 12-year-old girl to drown, based purely on cold logic and odds of survival.

#MoviesInMay @Klou
Prompt: Will Smith

I don't remember if i read this fully

LOL, I‘ve had this on my ereader so long that the cover image has changed at least three times! I bought it for a challenge years ago but am just getting around to it now... It‘s a collection of 9 related short stories showing the evolution of advanced robots. Since this was pubbed in 1950, it‘s a combo of now-retro and futuristic but it still works!

#QuotsyOct20 Day 3: #Robot

📖 I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
✍️ John Irving
🍿 Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, though the 1978 version ain't bad)
🎸 In This Moment
🎶 I Love Rock & Roll (Joan Jett)

#ManicMonday #LetterI @JoScho

It‘s incredible how this 70 year old book has become more and more relevant with every passing year since it‘s publication. Wonderful from start to finish.

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”

#QuotsyJan20 | 10: #Sense

📷: Made with Typorama

#BookReport
I finished 2 books in progress last weekend along with an impulse pick this week, The Kitchen.

#CurrentlyReading
📖 I‘ve reached Part Three of Sauron Defeated for #FellowshipofTolkien
🎧 Thoroughly enjoying listening to In Cold Blood for #ReadColdBlood

#WeeklyForecast
🎧 I plan to listen to Cat‘s Eye and/or Quackery once I finish my current audio
📖 Still haven‘t started The Darkdeep from my class library

sadly parts of Asimov's writing are too tedious for my tastes but I was absolutely not expecting for him to have such a dry sense of humor throughout parts of this book and make what are effectively programming jokes 😅 still this was an interesting read if nothing else

#scifi

bracing myself for the upcoming cold front with some fresh video game soundtracks and a well-loved copy of I, Robot from the local kolache shop's book exchange ❄️

😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🤖#LitsyHumor

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“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power”

Hiked up Enger Tower today and this view was worth it.

I‘m almost done with this book. I took it with me on my hike since it was a lovely day to read outside. #lakesuperior #liftbridge

This was a labor to get through for me. Probably because it was basically multiple short stories. There wasn't a main character or plot for me to get into.

My first thought was the #Evolution of the robots and their laws in Asimov's stories. Fascinating and creepy! #StarTrekSummerMay

Considering it was first published nearly 70 years ago, this book had a lot of really incredible foresight and raises some interesting ethical questions about the future of mankind and what it means to be human. I found the repetitive structure a little boring at times, and had to force myself to focus on several occasions but I can see why this is considered a sci-fi classic.

The robot in this part of the book reminded me a little of my husband. He's a very logical man and if he has reached a conclusion using his formidable reason, there is no convincing him otherwise!

Hi people of Litsy! This is my first post and I'm not completely sure how things work here but I'm excited to have a community to share my love of books with! I'm currently reading: I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, which is a departure from my normal tastes, but I'm really enjoying it.

The “end of nationalism” as Dr. Calvin puts it. Imagine a world grouped by vast regions rather then small countries.

The danger created by removing the first law of robotics is enormous.

Dr. Calvin drives Herbie mad with this “insoluble dilemma” by using the first law of robotics in a paradoxical fashion.

Positron: a subatomic particle with the same mass as an electron and a numerically equal but positive charge.

Funny, this robot can‘t accept a human as his creator. “You‘re the first robot who‘s ever exhibited curiosity as to his own existence...”

Such a cool concept for the inner workings of machine‘s artificial thought process (based on the in-universe laws of robotics).

The sudden realization of the possibility to be generalized into a generic group would be very unnerving.

People care about their movies and TV shows more than their interpersonal relationships nowadays. This is most noticeable in the Generation Z cohort.

1-A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm

2-A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3-A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

A great collection of interrelated stories about robot creation & development as seen from the very imaginative eyes of 1950. Because of its date, some of its human portrayals feel dated, but you have to appreciate the vision to intuit how robot development might occur, through the ages of more sophistication, and how the problems of robots might be caused by human‘s misunderstanding & mishandling of how the 3 laws would interact.
#1950
#LetterI

Yep! We are such slackers! 😂

The 1950‘s...when the golden age of modern marvels was just 40 years ahead of us. I can‘t help reading some of this and thinking we‘ve been seriously slacking. We are at least 20 years behind schedule. 😂

📚I,Robot
✍️John Irving
🎬Ice Age
🍨Ice Cream of course , chocolate!
#manicmonday #letterI

Isaac Asimov‘s typewriter used to write I, Robot.

Asimov's collection of loosely connected stories are based upon the Three Laws of Robotics. I, Robot works best when it veers off into more imaginative terrain. Case in point is "Escape!" featuring my two favorite characters, Powell & Donovan. Escape reads like a lost episode of Space Ghost. Asimov's representation of women is problematic & his descriptions of characters' physical movements are strange, but his influence on the genre is undeniable

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? #nationalsciencefictionday #scifi

This is one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors.

The highlight of this reread (for a book club with @acorter and his brother and sister-in-law) was revisiting this quote by Susan Calvin (aka known as my childhood hero).
"Actions such as his could come only from a robot, or from a very honorable and decent human being. But you see, you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans."

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