"George Zebrowski - Augie" - читать интересную книгу автора (Zebrowski George)

тАЬA dozen times. It'll cost you in time and effort. Maybe a decade. Five years, if you're lucky. They do learn on
their own after a while, you know. They even get to suggesting retro redesigns.тАЭ

Just like a child, Jimmy thought, but you have to do it right. He had once seen a horse with its young one.
They ran together until the new horse could run on his own.

тАЬYou recommend it?тАЭ Mira asked.

Arbogast grimaced. тАЬIf you're certain kinds of people...тАЭ

тАЬAnd if we're not?тАЭ
тАЬThen I'd wipe him and start over. And remember your mistakes the next time around.тАЭ

Arbogast was silent for a while, then looked at each of them in turn. тАЬI don't know. You two may not be the
right kind of people ... you don't have the time, and it may take too much out of you. By the way, what do you
two do?тАЭ

тАЬWe both work for Tchotchkes Unlimited,тАЭ Mira said. тАЬWe design ornaments for the home.тАЭ

тАЬOh,тАЭ Arbogast said. тАЬI see.тАЭ

Jimmy felt insulted, even though Arbogast had not said, oh, you mean knick-knacks. But he realized that
Arbogast might nevertheless be right about Augie.

Jimmy said, тАЬYou see a lot of this, you say?тАЭ

Arbogast nodded, and Jimmy saw that Mira was looking at both of them with breathless interest.

тАЬMore and more,тАЭ Arbogast said. тАЬYou know, people will be slowly remaking themselves through AIs. They'll
help us and we'll help them ... until no one will be able to tell us apart.тАЭ

Jimmy had heard some of this before. But he was suspicious of Arbogast, and of those like him who made
such claims for a new world.

тАЬLet me tell you something,тАЭ Arbogast said. тАЬIt's pretty clear that artificial intelligences are producing a higher
form of evolution. Maybe it's our duty to help them along.тАЭ He smiled and looked at Mira as if she might Eve a
new world. тАЬBut they are children, and someone has to raise them. The sad part is that our record of
parenting hasn't been so great. Most really bright people have to get rid of the glitches in themselves and
re-raise themselves at some point in their early life.тАЭ

Jimmy grimaced. тАЬAnd if they do surpass us, will they look back?тАЭ

тАЬWho knows?тАЭ Arbogast said. тАЬFor all practical purposes, they'll become us. No one will look back with
nostalgia to our mere one-hundred-billion neuron brain from a capacity of a hundred-trillion.тАЭ

тАЬSo we simply get out of the way?тАЭ Jimmy asked.

тАЬWe get incorporated,тАЭ Arbogast said. тАЬSubsumed. Oh, we'll still be there ... what's good about us anyway.тАЭ

Jimmy had the feeling that Arbogast had been about to say that there wasn't that much good about people,