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==Knight Rider== | |||
'''[related: KITT, disambiguation: [[knight-ridder|Knight Ridder]]]''' | |||
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Knight Rider [related: KITT, disambiguation: | |||
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Television dystopian sci-fi drama created and produced by Glen A. Larson that | Television dystopian sci-fi drama created and produced by Glen A. Larson that | ||
ran from 1982 to 1986. The show centered around the Knight Industries Two | ran from 1982 to 1986. The show centered around the Knight Industries Two | ||
Thousand (KITT, serial # AD227529), an advanced male-identifying sentient form | Thousand (KITT, serial # AD227529), an advanced male-identifying sentient form | ||
of | of [[ai|A.I.]] housed in a nearly indestructible and highly fashionable Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. KITT was designed by the late billionaire Wilton Knight (founder of Founder for Law and Government AKA FLAG) based on <!-- links to self --> [[cybernetics|cybernetic]] principles of emergent consciousness. The "brain" of the unit is an extremely powerful microprocessor <ref> As stated on the show, KITT's central processing unit contained upwards of 100MB of memory with a one nanosecond access time. </ref> placed at the center of a series of almost infinite interlocking cybernetic logic modules, allowing the unit to think, learn, develop language, and, eventually, self-awareness and behavioral autonomy <ref> It should be noted here the possibility of extrapolating | ||
[[ai]] | [[bicameralism|Jayne]]'s principle of bicameralism onto a | ||
housed in a nearly indestructible and | |||
highly fashionable Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. KITT was designed by the late | |||
billionaire Wilton Knight (founder of Founder for Law and Government AKA FLAG) | |||
based on | |||
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[[cybernetics]] | |||
principles of emergent | |||
consciousness. The "brain" of the unit is an extremely powerful | |||
microprocessor | |||
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placed at the center of a series of almost infinite | |||
interlocking cybernetic logic modules, allowing the unit to think, learn, | |||
develop language, and, eventually, self-awareness and | |||
autonomy | |||
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It should be noted here the possibility of extrapolating | |||
[[bicameralism]] | |||
's principle of bicameralism onto a | |||
drastically larger system. Essentially, KITT began processing from a | drastically larger system. Essentially, KITT began processing from a | ||
multi-cameral functionality, with almost countless discrete processing loops | multi-cameral functionality, with almost countless discrete processing loops | ||
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to direct action, complex moral quandaries including the valuing of one | to direct action, complex moral quandaries including the valuing of one | ||
lifeform against another, and high speed wrong-way chases through the | lifeform against another, and high speed wrong-way chases through the | ||
streets of | streets of [[los-angeles|Los Angeles]] , KITT's develop was forcibly funnelled down a path of integration. Although never explicitly stated by Wilton Knight, it is reasonable to conclude that KITT's processing unit was purposely placed within a context of maximum distress in order to facilitate the process of cameral unification, a theory supported by the fact that the unit was installed previously (and unsuccessfully) in a static Washington D.C.-based governmental system charged with compiled various streams of <!-- links to "cia" --> surveillance data. </ref>. KITT was extremely self-conscious in his human | ||
[[los-angeles]] | interaction, a result of his awareness of only recently having gained | ||
, KITT's develop | sentience, with an easily bruised ego and generally self-effacing and | ||
was forcibly funnelled down a path of integration. Although never explicitly | sometimes defensive demeanor, despite possessing superior intelligence and | ||
stated by Wilton Knight, it is reasonable to conclude that KITT's processing | processing power <ref> In effort to quell his uneasiness surrounding human interaction, KITT was equipped with an in-console arcade and stereo system, a state-of-the-art interface KITT often used as an interference device to distract his "drivers" during situations requiring the mitigation of human error and inferior processing ability. </ref>. KITT's nefarious predecessor was KARR (Knight Automated Roving Robot), a model placed in a secret storage facility following [REDACTED] due to KARR's prime operating directive of self-preservation. Subsequently, KITT was programmed to protect and preserve human life at all costs, leading to numerous self-sacrificial acts culminating in apparent self-euthanization upon the realization that <!-- links to self --> [[error|The Singularity]] would almost certainly lead to complete eradication of human life on earth. | ||
unit was purposely placed within a context of maximum distress in order to | |||
facilitate the process of cameral unification, a theory supported by the | |||
fact that the unit was installed previously (and unsuccessfully) in a static | |||
Washington D.C.-based governmental system charged with compiled various | |||
streams of | |||
<!-- links to "cia" --> | |||
surveillance data. | |||
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In effort to quell his uneasiness surrounding human interaction, | |||
KITT was equipped with an in-console arcade and stereo system, a | |||
state-of-the-art interface KITT often used as an interference device to | |||
distract his "drivers" during situations requiring the mitigation of human | |||
error and inferior processing ability. | |||
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Latest revision as of 00:58, 30 August 2026
Knight Rider
[related: KITT, disambiguation: Knight Ridder]
Television dystopian sci-fi drama created and produced by Glen A. Larson that ran from 1982 to 1986. The show centered around the Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT, serial # AD227529), an advanced male-identifying sentient form of A.I. housed in a nearly indestructible and highly fashionable Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. KITT was designed by the late billionaire Wilton Knight (founder of Founder for Law and Government AKA FLAG) based on cybernetic principles of emergent consciousness. The "brain" of the unit is an extremely powerful microprocessor [1] placed at the center of a series of almost infinite interlocking cybernetic logic modules, allowing the unit to think, learn, develop language, and, eventually, self-awareness and behavioral autonomy [2]. KITT was extremely self-conscious in his human interaction, a result of his awareness of only recently having gained sentience, with an easily bruised ego and generally self-effacing and sometimes defensive demeanor, despite possessing superior intelligence and processing power [3]. KITT's nefarious predecessor was KARR (Knight Automated Roving Robot), a model placed in a secret storage facility following [REDACTED] due to KARR's prime operating directive of self-preservation. Subsequently, KITT was programmed to protect and preserve human life at all costs, leading to numerous self-sacrificial acts culminating in apparent self-euthanization upon the realization that The Singularity would almost certainly lead to complete eradication of human life on earth.
- ↑ As stated on the show, KITT's central processing unit contained upwards of 100MB of memory with a one nanosecond access time.
- ↑ It should be noted here the possibility of extrapolating Jayne's principle of bicameralism onto a drastically larger system. Essentially, KITT began processing from a multi-cameral functionality, with almost countless discrete processing loops operating simultaneously and the central mainframe acting as a coordinating unit. Through the stress of KITT's various missions commonly involved a call to direct action, complex moral quandaries including the valuing of one lifeform against another, and high speed wrong-way chases through the streets of Los Angeles , KITT's develop was forcibly funnelled down a path of integration. Although never explicitly stated by Wilton Knight, it is reasonable to conclude that KITT's processing unit was purposely placed within a context of maximum distress in order to facilitate the process of cameral unification, a theory supported by the fact that the unit was installed previously (and unsuccessfully) in a static Washington D.C.-based governmental system charged with compiled various streams of surveillance data.
- ↑ In effort to quell his uneasiness surrounding human interaction, KITT was equipped with an in-console arcade and stereo system, a state-of-the-art interface KITT often used as an interference device to distract his "drivers" during situations requiring the mitigation of human error and inferior processing ability.