AI and robotics have long been a subject of interest for the movie industry: Matrix, Terminator, A.I... But what you see in those movies is an oversimplified, conflictual vision of the future where, basically, machines are going to kill us. While this might prove to be a good base for an hollywood entertaining story, it is very likely far from what future will be. It is easy to see how more interesting and subtle it could be, just by reading news on kurzweilai.net, for example.
I have two jobs. First, I'm an AI research in an academic laboratory and I work on robotics. Second, I am a filmmaker. I currently work on a project to join those two activities and start working on an original movie about AI, the singularity and how the future will look like. But, unlike Terminator, this will not be a very expensive, special effect based movie, but rather a "hardcore science" or "realistic sci-fi" movie. What I am interested in is to show the social, cultural and human consequences of AI-based robotics on our society: will this be the end of work? If so, how are we going to live, where are we going to spend our time? How is politics going to be affected? Environment? Human relationships? Religions? Will we be more alone in a more and more de-humanized world? Or, on the contrary, will we develop new and powerful human associations? How will robots look like?... Actually, I could cary on with hundreds of questions. Almost any post on this forum could be a question.
I wanted to start discussing the matter of such a movie with you and beginning what I believe can be an interesting exchange of ideas on what you would like to see in the movie, what vision of it you might have. This is a rather unusual experiment, a kind of collective scriptwriting maybe? I don't know, but I thought it could be valuable to try. I leave the topic of discussion very open, since I don't want to force anyone into one of my personal point of view.
However, before we start, I would like you to have a look at some of my personal opinions on several widespread ideas on AI (and it's consequences on the labor market), that I believe are completely false ideas:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl...commentsort=1&tid=126&mode=thread&cid=6549544
This is part of a post on slashdot about "Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050?". Very interesting.
Well, let's start the discussion if you feel like!
Eric
http://www.kalystath.com
I have two jobs. First, I'm an AI research in an academic laboratory and I work on robotics. Second, I am a filmmaker. I currently work on a project to join those two activities and start working on an original movie about AI, the singularity and how the future will look like. But, unlike Terminator, this will not be a very expensive, special effect based movie, but rather a "hardcore science" or "realistic sci-fi" movie. What I am interested in is to show the social, cultural and human consequences of AI-based robotics on our society: will this be the end of work? If so, how are we going to live, where are we going to spend our time? How is politics going to be affected? Environment? Human relationships? Religions? Will we be more alone in a more and more de-humanized world? Or, on the contrary, will we develop new and powerful human associations? How will robots look like?... Actually, I could cary on with hundreds of questions. Almost any post on this forum could be a question.
I wanted to start discussing the matter of such a movie with you and beginning what I believe can be an interesting exchange of ideas on what you would like to see in the movie, what vision of it you might have. This is a rather unusual experiment, a kind of collective scriptwriting maybe? I don't know, but I thought it could be valuable to try. I leave the topic of discussion very open, since I don't want to force anyone into one of my personal point of view.
However, before we start, I would like you to have a look at some of my personal opinions on several widespread ideas on AI (and it's consequences on the labor market), that I believe are completely false ideas:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl...commentsort=1&tid=126&mode=thread&cid=6549544
This is part of a post on slashdot about "Will Humanoid Robots Take All the Jobs by 2050?". Very interesting.
Well, let's start the discussion if you feel like!
Eric
http://www.kalystath.com