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Knight Rider and the Car That Thought: what is the feature of artificial intelligence? | AI by Sci Fi
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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By Jorge Guerra Pires, Ph.D.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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Book on Amazon.