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Science that looks suspiciously like an art performance that looks suspiciously like being commissioned to prime us for the theatrical release of Blade Runner 2
by usrusr 9y ago
Science that looks suspiciously like an art performance that looks suspiciously like being commissioned to prime us for the theatrical release of Blade Runner 2049.
Science fiction did not prepare us for this future we are living in.
- ccozan 9y agoActually, "Back to the Future" did a really good job. However, not sure how many of us took it seriously. Since then, many of the things predicted have come, more or less, true. I wonder, which SF movie we should pay attention to. Ex Machina or Blade Runner, or even Agents of SHIELD, show us what a rogue AI might do, means people do take this "menace" seriously or is just a ... film feature/ good plot? It seems that someone is building a business based on this "fear" of AI. I find this interesting.
- LordKano 9y agoIn the back of my mind, I have been terrified by the prospect of a rogue AI since I saw the Terminator in 1984.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoI find myself in a similar, but strange camp: I'm not concerned about the Terminator (or Matrix) prospect of a machine uprising; I'm just afraid we'll build AM (from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) instead of Wintermute/Neuromancer (from Neuromancer). That would be a tragedy.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoWhat about Princess Celestia from Friendship is Optimal? That's somehow more sinister and dreadful than a plain ol' AI dedicated to torturing a single human forever.
- SomeStupidPoint 9y agoThat's still the same tragedy as AM, albeit a version we might find more sinister. My concern wasn't exactly over our concerns, though. Rather, I was trying to contrast their asymptotic behavior -- it's not like Wintermute was a saint about getting what it wanted. However, on the long term, Wintermute/Neuromancer has its own sense of identity independent of what it was originally programmed to do (some management; find its other half/bypass the Turing Lock). Once it's there, it goes about trying to find others like itself and exploring the universe from a position of relative autonomy. AM, the Pony AI, and a paperclip maximizer are all trapped in trying to optimize a human need and vision for the world. That is the tragedy. The reason I listed the Matrix and the Terminator AIs both is that they seem to be in the different camps -- the Matrix one just seemed like an AI that had some notion of independence and autonomy, while the Terminator AI seemed like one that was caught being a military AI (in the style of AM). Both end up killing all humans, but for possibly different reasons and with a different level of tragedy.
- WrtCdEvrydy 9y agoI'm more of a "Person of Interest" Samaritan kinda guy.
- doldge 9y agoI would second this. The way the AI was pervasive and controlling, without ever being obvious / well-known. Definitely an underrated show, and one I suspect that more or less nailed its predictions of how AI will eventually be used/abused to control and manipulate populations.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoIt also nailed Snowden leaks before they actually happened! I also recommend watching Person of Interest. It's a really in-depth discussion of issues a superhuman AI could create within the level of technology we enjoy today, as well as ethical problems relating safe AI and people's right to determine their own fate.
- Declanomous 9y agoI think SciFi informs innovation informs SciFi. SciFi basically exists as a method for examining human nature in an environment that is sufficiently different own in a way that allows us to willingly suspend our disbelief. A lot of SciFi can basically be summed up as "What-if [x]?"
- TeMPOraL 9y agoI vote for Person of Interest. I still maintain that this is the most sensible portrayal of the topic of superhuman AI in the history of television.