Culture series
Science fiction book series by Ian M. Banks featuring advanced AI civilizations
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"If you look at positive depictions of collective intelligence, Peter, you're reading the Culture, right? And Minds, you know, like that is the positive thing and that should be made, I think, with AI into an actual TV movie series."
More from Emad Mostaque →"If anyone's read the Culture series, that's like some far future thing where AI basically handles everything and if you choose to go and build your own house you definitely can, but there's absolutely no economic reason — everything is artisanal a..."
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"They've all read Iain Banks, the Culture series. The Culture series, the entire book series is about the post-abundant world and what it'll be like. So when they get together and brainstorm on the future, they're so totally on the same page about ..."
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"He was reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation series and Ian Banks Culture series. Ian Banks gave him this applied utopian vision of what AI's realization could mean"
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