Ex Machin The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence

    Danny Crichton, in his article, “Fear Not The Robot,” tells that this fear is typical. It is like a revolving door. Every few years the fears come back. Typically they are caused by books and articles.

In “The Imagination of Disaster” Susan Sontag discusses the recurring themes in science fiction movies and why the human psyche is allured to technological destruction. Destruction is a very common theme among science fiction. Stanislaw Lem’s “How the World was Saved” is a fictional piece about a machine that has the power to turn the world into nothingness he discusses the power of technology and how humanity wields it foolishly. Although the genre of science fiction differs in execution between movies and writing, I claim that both commonly portray technology and science as the reason for our apocalypse because humanity has and always use them immorally.

The thesis of the book is science fiction films are modern folklore that forebode society’s gradual machination (1993b; 3). Humanity is mutilated or sacrificed outright, according to Schelde, with excess machines and robots present in our everyday

Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” is an early 19th century cautionary tale examining the dark, self-destructive side of human reality and human soul. It is written in the Romantic era where society greatly valued scientific and technological advancement. Throughout the novel, Shelley expresses her concerns of extreme danger when man transgresses science and all ethical values are disregarded. The implications of debatable experimentation and thriving ambition could evoke on humanity are explored in the novel. Likewise, “Blade Runner”, a sci-fi film directed by Ridley Scott in 1982 is a futuristic representation of Los Angeles in 2019. The film reflects its key widespread fears of its time, particularly the augmentation of globalization,

In the book Neuromancer by William Gibson, the technology and violence shown by the people and AI demonstrate that with the progression and evolution of technology, the cruel nature of humans progresses and evolves with it, and vise versa. This shows that we should be weary and careful of letting our technologies evolve too fast until we depend on technology too much for bettering our lives and get controlled by AI 's for their own interests.

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” (H.P. Lovecraft). There is a common phenomenon that humans tend to fear the unknown. This occurrence is human instinct. Humans like to know what, when, and why something happens. Often this fear drives everyday lives. Technology is a major unknown. Self-driving cars are an astounding invention; however, The thought of being in one is terrifying. No one can fully understand the depths of technology because it is constantly evolving, and that is scary. In Spencer R. Weart’s work, The Rise of Nuclear fear, He discusses the need for trust in the officials who control these unknowns. Without trust, fear will only rise. This is

The differences in recent years of meanings and expectations of The Singularity with ideas we as a class have encountered about views of the future differ in that in recent years media has constructed a technology growth towards The Singularity as something pessimistic while the reading we have done in class have been optimistic in terms of the existence of the human species. We read about how the British Industrial Revolution’s main goal was to better the existence of the human race. A lot of times this was accompanied with attitudes of elitism and racism from those that believed in the fundamental benefits that creating new technologies could bring. In contrast, in recent years movies such as Ex-Machina have viewed “The Singularity” as a

Humans have always passed down legends of terrifying monsters and creatures which represent a particular cultures greatest fear. Often those monsters took the form of exotic animals, hybrids between animals and mankind, or they are simply humans themselves. As time has passed, society’s fears have changed and evolved into whatever strikes them at their core. In recent pop culture and novels, a new fear has risen, and taken the form of technology. This fear originates from the notion that someday technology will advance beyond human intellect and take over. A prime example of this happening is the technological monster used in James Cameron’s The Terminator.

Fear is created not by the world around us, but in the mind, by what we think is going to happen. Why is it that in almost all of the movies starring cyborgs, the cyborgs are either inherently evil or the cause of trouble? We human beings seem to have a problem with the idea of a person enhanced with technology, or a robot enhanced with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Have you ever been uncertain about the world you live in, and the reality of the truth? The fear of knowing is a common response to most of what we do not know. The real answers make it apparent, that some wish not to understand the truth about everything. Society has made life so self-explanatory that the unknown has now become a mission to be kept a secret. Some are in fear of finding the truth, due to the fact it could have substantial affects on the entire human race. The world as we know it could prosper or fail with any new attempts in high-risk technology. Science and new advancements in artificial intelligence have made it accessible to finding out more than humans have every imagined possible. The development of the computer was a

Last, but not certainly not least on the topic of technology, is the viewpoints and theories from Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon, The Book of the Machines (1872). Butler’s novel alludes that progression of technology will cause individuals to be afraid and that those same individuals will be a thing of the past as technology will take over life as it is (Van Camp, 2014). Although, there were certain technologies that Butler was referring to for that period of time that caused this way of thinking, it did not stop there. Technology has continued to evolve with the potential same implications of harming society today.

The interpretation of Sci-Fi films in today’s society is continuously being altered as other film makers are showing their unique perspectives of the future. The makers of Blade Runner foreshadow the issues of contemporary society through the medium of science fiction. To the viewer, tales and mythology are a strong part of the human experience. They help define humanity and humankind. Through the images and icons of the old mythologies of the Greeks and Egyptians, our subconscious racial memories are touched, linking the hardly known emotions to the soul. We learn from these images and texts and make them our own. Through science fiction, we are able to grasp the values and lessons of a time unknown to us. These lessons are just as valuable as places where they originated from. Through Blade Runner, we see an epic quest filled with meaning and symbolism applicable to the human

In Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Sidney Lumet and Stanley Kubrick question the relationship between technology and humanity by emphasizing mankind’s tendency to create machines that cannot be adequately controlled. By blatantly revealing the absurdity of game theory (Mutual Assured Destruction as a reasonable deterrence for nuclear war), both directors call into question the dominant pro-Cold War American ideology. One of the most quintessential aspects of this ideology includes the drive for constant

The human experience can be well characterized by certain parts of the media we create. We reflect what we feel and face in our lives, in what we create, especially in our music and writing. The science fiction we create is especially reflective of these things, because it is often written in a way that explores the human condition as it is and as it may be in the future. These pieces of media do more than demonstrate the ideas of those who create them, they provide us with insight into the state of society at the time they were produced, allowing us to see the themes that are constant over the centuries. One of these themes is the struggle we face between the drive to do what we see as right and the instinct to

The good thing about films is that we not only have the opportunity to choose from a wide selection of different genres, but also compare them and understand their purpose in the world. The Horror genre has used the basic principles throughout time, and as a result, films of this type have not proven to be as timeless as another genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy. At first, these two genres might at times seem similar as they have at several occasions been blended together, but their basic, common theme serves different meanings about humans. I shall compare and contrast these two genres and focus on both classic films and modern films. From the Horror genre perspective I shall discuss Psycho (1960) and The Mist (2007), while in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre I will examine 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), and Serenity (2005). Although the Science Fiction/Fantasy genre and the Horror Genre share some similarities, the differences lie in their focus on human progress.