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Maybe the author should explain more what he perceives as the current situation. I mean AI is almost in any science fiction movie (2001, Terminator, Star Trek,
by andi999 6y ago
Maybe the author should explain more what he perceives as the current situation. I mean AI is almost in any science fiction movie (2001, Terminator, Star Trek, Blade runner)
- panic 6y ago> News stories about ML invariably invite readers to imagine autonomous agents analogous to robots: either helpful servants or inscrutable antagonists like the Terminator and HAL. Boring paternal condescension or boring dread are the only reactions that seem possible within this script.... The point is that AIs are typically imagined by our culture as independent agents that act kind of like humans, not as tools or forces that participate in human culture in a more inhuman way.
- jononor 6y agoThere are examples of AI in sci-fi that are not bound to a single humanoid-robot type base. Just to pick some popular movies: The Matrix, Her, Transcendence
- dTal 6y agoParent never mentioned embodiment. All of your examples still depict AIs as "independent agents that act kind of like humans". A genuine example of "inhuman force" AI might be Bruce Sterling's short story Maneki Neko. But even then, the AI has motive. Such stories are difficult to come by.
- guerrilla 6y agoIt seems like there should be tons, like what about the computer on any Star Trek series?
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoThe AI in pretty much every science fiction movie is human in its ability to conceive of itself as a separate entity, and human in its ability to have wants and desires for itself that are wide ranging. The AI in all the movies you mention have personalities and drives that bring them into direct conflict with humanity. Machine learning can perhaps undermines humanity or makes things worse for humanity by its functioning, but it does not directly go to war against humanity.
- andi999 6y agoSo what you write, is this what the article means? Also the central computer ai in star trek does not have personality but is just a powerful tool.
- bryanrasmussen 6y agoI believe you will find that there are artificial intelligences in different Star Trek productions.
- andi999 6y agoYes. My point was, that I couldn't figure out what the author actually means and where he is coming from.
- wongarsu 6y agoIf it isn't an AI in the way you describe, science fiction just calls it a computer or a computer program. Because that's what it is, calling machine learning AI is just a continuation of a trend calling various things AI in an attempt to get research funding. The Star Trek board computer (as imagined in 1966) is a human-language interface for a program that can look up information and do computations based on high level descriptions. Some of the commands given to it arguably require "intelligence", and any attempt to replicate it today (of which there are many, all of them fall flat) would involve machine learning. Yet the computer wasn't conceptualized as a living entity with personality, as opposed to for example the Culture Series where ships are AIs with superior intellects.
- wruza 6y agoAI is not always humanlike, and when it is, it’s because it is a good fit for servitude. I remember a story of a planet with small tetrahedron bots that formed protective clouds to destroy electrically active organisms. T-series were humanlike for a reason, other bots were not. Starships often have AI that is not even a person. Social fiction is just the most popular, because it is the same old drama, but with robots.