The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence

I think that the thing that we haven't given any of these systems yet is a very very innate human thing. It predates humanity by hundreds of millions of years it is wanting things. And this is why an artificial intelligence even one that we've given a very human face for would be at heart something far more alien to us than a spider or an octopus or a crow because it doesn't have those wants. I really do believe that the very best science fiction writers in the world right now are all you know sort of UK authors so Charlie straws Peter Hamilton you Alistair Reynolds and Ian Banks like God bless him before he died.