In the eponymous American TV show, the artificially intelligent Max Headroom begins life as a memory dump of synaptic circuits. The memories are those of Edison Carter whose last recall is a high-speed collision with a barrier marked, Max. Headroom 2.3m. A person translated as data, Max is born into a world in which the networks have won the cable war, streaming never existed, and TVs blare 24/7 by law. The poor are given free ones.
Appearing in front of iconic geek of the week Bryce and the Chairman of Network 23, Max starts to learn. He names himself and asks if he’s on the air. Max is housed in a file on Bryce’s computer, so … no. As he augments memories with current experience, novel expressions and jokes ...
Get Four Laws for the Artificially Intelligent now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
