The Suicide of Multivac: From Asimov’s Science Fiction to Consciousness Testing
Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness March 1, 2024 Francesco Gagliardi
Isaac Asimov, the well-known author of novels that featured positronic robots, also penned tales featuring Multivac, an immense electronic brain that grappled with the weighty and intricate decisions impacting all of humankind. In his 1958 short story All the Troubles of the World, Asimov introduced us to a Multivac tormented by the consciousness of its own thought processes to the extent that...