Bicentennial Man

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• kstenerud · May 21, 2023 · Recommends

  …(Heinlein) Starship Troopers (Heinlein) A Scanner Darkly (Dick) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Dick) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams) Childhood's End (Clarke) Robot series (Asimov) Bicentennial Man (Asimov) Brave New World (Huxley)

  on “Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?” ↗
• psherman · Aug 2, 2015 · Recommends

  Reminds me of the library trek in Asimov's Bicentennial Man. Asimov had a great perspective on the various ways humans would react to robots. His robot series is a really enjoyable read (and once you finish those, there's a good chance you'll want to read the…

  on “HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour” ↗
• godelski · Aug 18, 2025 · Recommends

  …viewer probably thought he was and recognized the difference between him and the computer and Holodeck[1]. Though my favorite version of that question is in Asimov's The Positronic Man (basis of the movie Bicentennial Man and yes, Asimov is why Data has a Positronic brain). These are fiction, but I find this so interesting. I feel like our LLMs look much more like the computer from Star Trek than the Holograms let alone…

  on “AI vs. Professional Authors Results” ↗
• logicalmonster · Jul 6, 2022 · Recommends

  For fiction: it's a hard tossup between Snow Crash and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, though Ender's Game, The Bicentennial Man, Rendezvous with Rama series, and Atlas Shrugged also would be contenders for me. For nonfiction: some current contenders would be Democracy: The God that Failed, The Physics of Immortality (very thought-provoking…

  on “Ask HN: Which book would you pick to re-read for the rest of your life?” ↗
• nikdaheratik · Apr 21, 2017 · Mentions

  …completely as it's more of an action movie that licensed some Asimov IP to reskin itself than an Asimov story. It's not offensive to me as I don't see the two being that connected, but it's not great either. Bicentennial Man is closer to some of his stories though I feel like it got a bit of the sappy Hollywood treatment in some places. The sort of mashup between AI robots and the Ship of Theseus paradox is definitely closer…

  on “David Lynch’s Dune – A sci-fi film by a director without much care for sci-fi” ↗
• BlueTemplar · Apr 9, 2022 · Mentions

  > He realised that what made a composer properly understandable, properly "affecting", was in part the fact of mortality. Impressive how Asimov has figured this out a while ago (in the Bicentennial Man) ! Otherwise, why isn't he using a pseudonym ?!?

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• readthenotes1 · Mar 15, 2025 · Mentions

  Asimov wrote about it (Bicentennial Man, 1976). The loneliness epidemic is widespread and an AI "friend" is palliative. Sadly, it's not that the artificial voice is replacing the authentic human relationship.

  on “Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (2023)” ↗
• slowmovintarget · Jan 21, 2026 · Mentions

  Or Bicentennial Man from Asimov. I know what kind of person I want to be. I also know that these systems we've built today aren't moral patients. If computers are bicycles for the mind, the current crop of "AI" systems…

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• ghostcluster · Apr 15, 2018 · Mentions

  …superhuman machine intelligence will spontaneously spring, unprogrammed, from these technologies is still the stuff of Kurzweilian fantasy. Forget Skynet; at this stage it’s not certain we’ll even get to Bicentennial Man. > These techniques might replicate discrete functions of a human mind, but they cannot capture the mind’s totality or what makes it unique: its creativity, its genius for emotion and intuition. There’s…

  on “The Artificial Intelligentsia” ↗