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Actually, "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, m
by ccozan 9y ago
Actually, "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.