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1. Shamel+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-11-20 02:57:21
Most science fiction has to do with robots (almost always robots) being (essentially) a superior counterfactual version of humans. With that context it's almost a natural assumption that such beings would revolt.

On the other hand, the realm of non-fiction has been predicting the automation of intelligent processes by computational processes since Alan Turing first suggested it in Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Probably before then, as well.

The only exception I can think of for fiction is the movie "Her," which as far as I can tell effectively predicted the future. Not really, of course, but every inch of that movie down to how people work pre and post AI, how people play video games pre and post AI, and how people socialize pre and post AI, are starting to look eerily accurate.

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2. trucul+s1[view] [source] 2023-11-20 03:07:19
>>Shamel+(OP)
The fashion, too!
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3. wilson+32[view] [source] 2023-11-20 03:14:14
>>Shamel+(OP)
> The only exception I can think of for fiction is the movie "Her,"

I think there is a wealth of fiction out there that features AI without robot bodies. The sequel to Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, comes to mind immediately (because I re-read it last week).

2001: A Space Odyssey, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Neuromancer (I think, haven't read it in a while), I think some of of the short stories from Ray Bradbury and Ted Chiang, etc, etc

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4. Shamel+z2[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-11-20 03:18:33
>>wilson+32
I’ll have to add some of those things to the reading list. 2001 (the movie) was indeed a great depiction of an AI that isn’t exactly embodied and also isn’t effectively a human in robot skin. It does run into the similar tropes I was getting at though where AI feels it knows what is best for us even if that involves disobeying us.
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5. tkgall+cc[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-11-20 04:58:13
>>wilson+32
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein has as one of its central plot elements a mainframe computer that becomes sentient and able to converse with humans. It’s been more than fifty years since I last read the book, but it has returned to my mind often since the release of ChatGPT.
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6. dekhn+Vd4[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-11-21 02:02:32
>>tkgall+cc
John Varley was inspired by Heinlein and ended up writing a whole collection of books about a post-earth solar system where every planet had a planet-wide intelligence (among other Heinlein-inspired ideas).

The series (basically everything in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Worlds) is pretty dated but Varley definitely managed to include some ahead-of-his-time ideas. I really liked Ophiuchi Hotline and Equinoctial

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