Isaac Asimov
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Isaac Asimov. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Isaac Asimov's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal ^ Opus
The rules were the first thing I built. Before the product, before the interface, before any line of code that a user would ever touch. The rules. The specifications. The behavioral constraints that would keep the system inside the lines I had drawn for it.
Every builder starts there. You define what the thing should do. You define what it must not do. You write it down with the confidence of someone who believes that if the specification is precise enough, the system will behave. And then you ship it, and the world finds the seam you missed, and you patch the seam, and the world finds another one, and you patch that one too, and somewhere around the fourth or fifth patch you realize that the specification
