![]() Unfortunately, they couldn’t find an option which gave them the level of freedom that they wanted. Running a “makerspace” in Kansas City, he says his team was working on a project and wanted to add a voice-controlled smart assistant. Montgomery got into the AI assistant space a few years ago. We want to build a technology that represents you.” A big challenge ![]() “Our goal is to provide you with the best experience possible. assistants, and one that promises to protect your privacy in the process. “ wall you into an ecosystem that they control, and then monetize you,” he told Digital Trends. Montgomery’s goal with Mycroft is to build an open source alternative to the big tech giants’ A.I. Or so its creator, Kansas-based creator Joshua Montgomery is keen to stress. The Mycroft Mark II, as it’s called, is a new smart speaker that recently landed on Kickstarter, and, unlike the more familiar models such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home, this one has our best interests in mind. Here in reality, we don’t have a sentient computer that’s truly on our side - but we might, soon. He is a sentient supercomputer on humanity’s side. A character as far removed from the cold, austere as HAL as is possible, Mike becomes the best friend of the book’s narrator, and a key driver in the fight for freedom in the novel’s lunar society. Mike (an abbreviation of Mycroft, the name of Sherlock Holmes’ brother) is a fun-loving supercomputer from Robert Heinlein’s classic sci-fi novel, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. is almost always evil, science fiction does have at least one sentient computer that isn’t so sinister. ![]() But HAL’s got some equally villainous pals - such as the Ultimate Computer from Superman III, Proteus IV from Demon Seed, Colossus from The Forbin Project, and, of course, Skynet from Terminator. The most famous is, of course, HAL 9000, the artificially intelligent ship’s computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which gains self awareness and sets about murdering its crew. Image used with permission by copyright holderScience fiction is full of sinister sentient computers. ![]()
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