One of the skills I want to walk away with by the time I graduate (which is in a month or so) is to become a better orator. I've been shy since I was young and I almost never used to participate in class up until high school because I had anxiety about how my…
There was a video traveling around social media a week or two ago of a mother seeing her deceased daughter through virtual reality goggles, crying and trying to touch her. The simulation of her daughter had her face and her voice; her likeness was good enough that it elicited a strong emotional reaction from her…
Source: Genetic Literacy Project As an artificial intelligence, AIDAN is incredibly technologically advanced, as well as emotionally sophisticated. Aside from being able to access files from military and medical personnel and manipulate communications and structures onboard, AIDAN can understand the feelings of people, almost as if she is reading their minds. It can also see…
Ex Machina (2014), directed by Alex Garland, and starring Alicia Vikander as Ava, an artificial intelligence Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me makes me think, once more, about health ethics. In his novel, he explores how Adam, a humanoid artificial intelligence robot, impacts the relationships between Charlie and Miranda, and what implications his personality has for…
What role does logical thinking play in the fiction we have read about robots/artificial intelligence? How prepared do you think ordinary people are to use logic effectively to live/work with AI? What should we do about this? Logical thinking plays a crucial role when it comes to making or commanding robots and artificial intelligence. In…
Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Film 