Shanken pg 213-228

On page 217, Shanken discusses robotic architects like Nicholas Negroponte and what Negroponte says is interesting when he discusses machines, "However, it would appear foolish to suppose that, when machines know how to design, there will be no missing information or that a single designer can give the machine all that it needs. Consequently, we, at the Architecture Machine Group at M.I.T., are embarking on the construction of a machine that can work with missing information." It amazes me that people are working on something like this. This reminds me of a really advanced artificial intelligence machine that could possibly think on it own. I feel like there have been countless movies about something like this happening in films like Terminator and Marvels Avengers Age of Ultron. The kind of technology would hint that robots would be uncontrollable and disobey there commands. But those movies are works of fiction. This kind of technology seems like it could be used effectively to go to far away distances, but still, they would need a constant energy source to keep them running.