Back in 1995, Tod Mesirow had the opportunity to interview 2001: A Space Odyssey author Arthur C. Clarke, and the transcript has recently been posted in the Los Angeles Review of Books . Clarke's insights into science fiction in the interview are as human and accessible as his writing, "Science fiction does not attempt to predict. It extrapolates. It just says what if? — not what will be?" Clarke mocked those that think AI isn't coming, quipping "I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence."
Clarke, who died in 2008, also reminisced about his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick on 2001 — surprisingly drawing a connection...
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