“Many people fear that if fully sentient machine intelligence ever comes to exist, it will take over the world. The real threat, though, is the risk of tech companies enslaving robots to drive up profits, author Martha Wells suggests in her far-future-set book series The Murderbot Diaries.”

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/were-light-years-away-from-true-artificial-intelligence-says-murderbot/

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells

Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

Scientific American

An interesting premise for a sci-fi show featuring a sentient robot: “Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.”

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Apple’s Murderbot series starts streaming in May

The Apple TV Plus sci-fi series Murderbot, which stars Alexander Skarsgård, will start streaming on May 16th.

The Verge