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.
Science fiction did not prepare us for this future we are living in.
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.
That would be a tragedy.
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.
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.
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.
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]?"