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Samuel Butler's Erewhon

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Science fiction is rife with films about AI and have become a common plot device. Even before they existed, the cinema projected many fears about what was to come in future. These are interesting because they help setting the public view’s on AI and Robotics. What is less known today is that they have appeared since the inception of cinema, i.e. 1907. But, in today’s world, as we move closer to a time of human and robot integration, filmmakers have continued to explore the effect this could have in society. The concept of advanced robots with human-like intelligence has been around for decades. Iconoclastic Victorian-era English author, Samuel Butler, was the first to raise this issue in his novel

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