Implanted with a brain chip...
Click here for audio. I wonder what you think about AI? Artificial Intelligence. I enjoyed the Christmas Wallace and Gromit with Norbot the robot who helped a jailed penguin steal a blue diamond (although that sounds like a local garden centre!), that was pretty harmless fun, but real AI- well people say it's either the key to the future, or a bit too scary. There’s a novelist and screenwriter called Ewan Morrison and he’s just written a book called “ For Emma ”. I haven’t read it, but I heard him talking about it on the radio . In the story, Emma is a Harvard Graduate that offers her brain to be implanted with an AI computer chip that is going to herald the next advance in pushing back the frontiers of artificial intelligence. Tragically she dies as a result of having this chip implanted, and her father is devastated. The writer Ewan Morrison said that he was trying to tap into the longing people have for something big to believe in, and I quote.. “we live i...