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> News stories about ML invariably invite readers to imagine autonomous agents analogous to robots: either helpful servants or inscrutable antagonists like the
by 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?