Artificial Intelligence

At 08:24 PM 7/15/97 -0300, Tom wrote:
>We're noting Niven's fiction in this discussion,
>

	Niven's AIs all go insane.  They think so fast and get so bored
that they
soon generate universes of their own within their own minds...	These
universes are so much more interesting to them than our own that they
stop
paying attention.  Either that they become comatose from the boredom.
Either way the result is the same, time to reboot and rebuild.	One of
the
short stories in the Kzinti series explores this quite well from the
point
of view of the AI.
	Phil P.