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Knight Rider and the Car That Thought | AI by Sci Fi | In conversation with Jorge Guerra Pires


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There was a time when science fiction on television dared to be philosophical. It wasn’t just about gadgets or space battles, but about ideas. In the early 1980s, a prime-time series called Knight Rider offered something deceptively simple: a man and his car, fighting injustice. But this wasn’t any car. KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand) was a super-intelligent, self-aware vehicle equipped with advanced AI. What appeared on the surface as a flashy action show was, in fact, an exploration of human-machine relationships, ethics, and trust.

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Geek Stuff | Jorge Pires | podcastBy Jorge Guerra Pires, Ph.D.