Years ago I saw a television program on Artificial Intelligence, which still effects my thinking today.  “The Machine that Changed the World: The Thinking Machine”, program had a final segment on Cyc Corp, where they were saving common sense rules to a computer. If you follow this link click on last segment, 1990s program.

This television season with at least 2 1/2 programs dealing with computer learning and the fear associated with mankind giving up the top knowledge  keeper job on this planet; I keep referring to problems in this video of CYC reconciling its database.  The TV programs are “Person of Interest”, “Almost Human” and “Intelligence” with Intelligence being a stupid remake of the Terminal Man.

These programs skip the common sense problem at jump to AI learning compassion, caring, or greed and ambition.  Did they see how alien an intelligence trapped in a machine would seem to us?  Or us and our world to that intelligence?