A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Fate: Sealed yet Alterable It is human nature to crave knowledge. People cannot help it, and oftentimes it is a favorable quality. Awareness should be desirable, right? Sometimes. But when dealing with fate, awareness can only hurt individuals, as shown in both Oedipus Rex and Minority Report. Both movie and play clearly illustrate that when a person tries to change their own destiny, they only end up bringing themselves closer to it. They also show how attempting to alter another’s destiny yields the same outcome. Unfortunately, there is no definite outcome - the end result is dependent on how much of one’s future is made clear to them. Fewer details allow more room for change, and therefore becoming fully aware of one’s future only further seals their fate, because running away simply brings them closer to their destiny. John Anderton in Minority Report shows just about perfectly how complete alteration is impossible, no matter how much effort is put into it. He desperately searches for his own minority report after being informed of its alleged possibility of existence, only to be let down in the end. “‘What happened? Where’s the rest?... Is there a minority report?’ [Agatha] ‘No… Can you see?’” (Spielberg). Anderton spent the past twenty four hours running from the police, getting his eyes surgically swapped out, invading a highly secured facility and stealing one of the three most important elements of Pre-crime, all to find that his minority report coincidentally does…

Brian Aldiss’ “Supertoys Last All Summer Long” is a short story that deals with two narratives. The first one involves Monica Swinton and her young son David, and the second one is Monica’s husband Henry Swinton who is the Managing Director of Synthank. Throughout the short story both Monica and David can’t seem to communicate clearly to each other. David feels that the love he has for his mother is unrequited. Interesting enough in this dystopian future Monica’s three year old son David isn’t…

60-Minutes ran a feature segment on A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). My knowledge of computer technology is below average, consisting mainly of checking email and surfing the internet. As most people, I knew computers were taking over many jobs once done by humans, and had seen footage of auto industry robots assembling automobiles. I remember seeing video of a warehouse with floor computers delivering boxes from one location to the next. A.I. is different. While watching this segment with…

camouflages to survive, a porcupine flares its needles to survive, and an artificial intelligence learns to survive. In Stanley Kubrick’s, 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000, the computer program running the ship, becomes fearful and even hateful of humans once he discovers that the astronauts on board plan to shut him down. He attempts to eradicate them, but to no avail. A.I.s such as this one are being developed right now by some of the most brilliant, yet ignorant minds man has to offer, and no…

The way society thinks of Artificial Intelligence is absurd. Most people look at technological progress from a business perspective, namely, how can we profit from it. Some more pessimistic approaches may compare it to an uncontrollable snowball, where progress ultimately gets too fast and unstoppable. There are many ways to interpret the future of technology; however, Catherynne M. Valente proposes a new path for A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) that has not been explored yet. In Valente’s…

The development of advanced artificial intelligence is the single greatest potential threat to humanity. With the current rate of technological evolution, the development of sentient A.I. (artificial intelligence) is inevitable. As of 2016, the top computer scientists of the world agree that we are with fifty years of attaining A.I. capable of superseding humans in most types of analytical and creative thought. Furthermore, the nations of the world at the forefront of technological innovation…

A.I.: Nightmare or Dream Come True? Computers have become one of the most advancing and successful industries in the world. Everyday a new smartphone, software package, app or some other technological device is being created and used by millions of people. This industry already plays such a big aspect in our lives that when something controversial comes up, it can have far-reaching effects. Some of these effects are positive and contribute to the good of all society, and some can have the…

In the movie, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, by Steven Spielberg, there are two dominant groups of beings: flesh-and-blood humans, and nuts-and-bolts humans (also known as mechas, or mechanical people). In this dystopian future-world, humans produce and destroy mechas as they like because to some, a mecha is only a machine and cannot feel emotions or pain, even if they can show outward manifestations of emotions and pain. David is a mechanical child that is programmed to not have this…

A.I Artificial Intelligence, a film by Steven Spielberg, tells the Pinocchio-esque story of David, a robotic boy who goes on a journey, in search of a Blue Fairy, so that he can become a real boy and earn the love of Monica, his human mother. Dealing with the idea of artificial intelligence and the question of whether or not a machine can have a mind, this film touches on the philosophy of John. R Searle - whose main thought experiment, The Chinese Room, argues that no matter how a computer…

Artificial intelligence is definitely a touchy subject for the human race. The very mention of the term conjures up images of apocalyptic societies where intelligent super-computers have either enslaved the human race or eradicated the inferior species altogether. For some, such as Descartes, the connotation of "artificial intelligence" attacks the very core of the human spirit, the pride of our race. The very thought of an "intelligent" computer that is on par, or more likely superior, to our…