AI in Film vs. Reality
Added 2023-04-25 22:45:15 +0000 UTC“Science fiction is not predictive, it is descriptive.” -Ursula K Le Guin
I've been spending a lot of time testing out GPT-4, and trying to understand what it's capable of, and what implications it might have on society. Naturally, the emergence of the first AIs that are anywhere close to a kind of intelligence also has me thinking about some of the movies that have touched on AI. How those films have shaped our expectations of AI and how we might see those movies differently now.
In this video I look primarily at what Spike Jonze's Her has to say about AI, how that differs from what we're actually seeing in ChatGPT, but also how the film might guide us towards understanding what some of the implications of AI are of us in our own lives as we move into this future.
On little tidbit I wanted to include in the video but didn't find a way to work in was this exchange:
Me: "If I called you SAM 9000 would you understand the joke?"
GPT-4: "Yes, I understand the joke! By calling me "SAM 9000," you're making a playful reference to HAL 9000, the AI character from the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey." The name SAM is derived from "Samantha" from the movie "Her" and combined with "9000" from HAL 9000, creating a humorous amalgamation of the two AI characters."
Comments
Recently, I just finished watching Picard, Season 3. Ever since the show premiered, one character arc is Data's desire to be human. But a more interesting question arises. Data's character has been killed off a few times. He shows up again in Picard, Season 3, acting and looking more human. He points out he's not the same Data as in Picard, Season 1. Now, to the point of this post. In Picard, Season 3, everyone treats Data as the same as the one in Season 1 leading to an emotional scene with Geordi who considers him a deep friend. You never see Data multiple incarnations. So, the question is, are all these variants of Data the same? Is Data an actual individual with many incarnations (maybe begging religious issues like the trinity)? When you have artifical intelligence, what does identity and self-awareness even mean? It's not a question that is explored too deeply in an action, plot-oriented series like Picard, but I think these are the kinds of questions science fiction explores.
Charlzz
2023-04-30 15:58:39 +0000 UTC
