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Post by see2 on Apr 9, 2024 12:55:49 GMT
I was watching a Alfred Hitchcock presents on Sky, I was amazed that one of them was about AI, although in the 60s there was no such thing or word as AI, they called it marionette services, where they turned out human replicas who would stand in for you when you couldn't be bothered, suppose a bit like Biden. I was gobsmacked that Alfred Hitchcock would have had the slightest notion of AI as we call them to day, and the strangest thing of all the 'marionette clones' got fed and rebelled and took over the human ... spooky or what. Yes, in the early days it was sort of imagined and was all part of science fiction. --At the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project into this area, co-host John McCarthy introduced the phrase "artificial intelligence" and helped incubate an organized community of AI researchers. I had never heard the term or had never taken any notice of it until it became popular a number of years ago. |
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Post by Fairsociety on Apr 9, 2024 13:06:46 GMT
I was watching a Alfred Hitchcock presents on Sky, I was amazed that one of them was about AI, although in the 60s there was no such thing or word as AI, they called it marionette services, where they turned out human replicas who would stand in for you when you couldn't be bothered, suppose a bit like Biden. I was gobsmacked that Alfred Hitchcock would have had the slightest notion of AI as we call them to day, and the strangest thing of all the 'marionette clones' got fed and rebelled and took over the human ... spooky or what. Yes, in the early days it was sort of imagined and was all part of science fiction. --At the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project into this area, co-host John McCarthy introduced the phrase "artificial intelligence" and helped incubate an organized community of AI researchers. I had never heard the term or had never taken any notice of it until it became popular a number of years ago. I like Star Trek the original series, I know it was written by Gene Roddenberry who was allegedly one of the 'majestic 12' secret society.
Looking at some of the Star Trek episodes there is absolutely no way Gene Roddenberry could have know then what we know now, he was hundreds if not thousands of years ahead of his time and the original Star Trek era, although they don't actually use the terminology we use today it's clear as day what they mean today, and couldn't possibly have known at the time.
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Post by see2 on Apr 9, 2024 14:35:19 GMT
Yes, in the early days it was sort of imagined and was all part of science fiction. --At the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project into this area, co-host John McCarthy introduced the phrase "artificial intelligence" and helped incubate an organized community of AI researchers. I had never heard the term or had never taken any notice of it until it became popular a number of years ago. I like Star Trek the original series, I know it was written by Gene Roddenberry who was allegedly one of the 'majestic 12' secret society.
Looking at some of the Star Trek episodes there is absolutely no way Gene Roddenberry could have know then what we know now, he was hundreds if not thousands of years ahead of his time and the original Star Trek era, although they don't actually use the terminology we use today it's clear as day what they mean today, and couldn't possibly have known at the time. I like most of the Star Trek series, but like all science fiction, they were based upon imagination. I used to read a lot of sci fi books in the late 1960s, and I estimated that a good science fiction story was often based upon what we actually know and then allowing the imagination to take the next step, or steps into the unknown. An extrapolation of the known into the unknown. 'Live long and prosper'  |
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Post by Orac on Apr 10, 2024 8:37:46 GMT
I was watching a Alfred Hitchcock presents on Sky, I was amazed that one of them was about AI, although in the 60s there was no such thing or word as AI, they called it marionette services, where they turned out human replicas who would stand in for you when you couldn't be bothered, suppose a bit like Biden. I was gobsmacked that Alfred Hitchcock would have had the slightest notion of AI as we call them today, and the strangest thing of all the 'marionette clones' got fed up of being clones and rebelled and took on the human form while disposing of the human ... spooky or what. The last step - disposing of the 'original' is redundant. It is in there to add narrative punctuation and a message, but strictly speaking, if you can be functionally replaced in all regards you are already in a sense dead. I have been mulling over this notion in my mind and trying to come up with a story that would illustrate this type of 'death' - the true horror that really awaits us. |
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Post by see2 on Apr 10, 2024 10:33:48 GMT
I was watching a Alfred Hitchcock presents on Sky, I was amazed that one of them was about AI, although in the 60s there was no such thing or word as AI, they called it marionette services, where they turned out human replicas who would stand in for you when you couldn't be bothered, suppose a bit like Biden. I was gobsmacked that Alfred Hitchcock would have had the slightest notion of AI as we call them today, and the strangest thing of all the 'marionette clones' got fed up of being clones and rebelled and took on the human form while disposing of the human ... spooky or what. The last step - disposing of the 'original' is redundant. It is in there to add narrative punctuation and a message, but strictly speaking, if you can be functionally replaced in all regards you are already in a sense dead. I have been mulling over this notion in my mind and trying to come up with a story that would illustrate this type of 'death' - the true horror that really awaits us. Back to the beginning living wild in the woods perhaps? |
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Post by Fairsociety on Apr 10, 2024 12:27:18 GMT
I was watching a Alfred Hitchcock presents on Sky, I was amazed that one of them was about AI, although in the 60s there was no such thing or word as AI, they called it marionette services, where they turned out human replicas who would stand in for you when you couldn't be bothered, suppose a bit like Biden. I was gobsmacked that Alfred Hitchcock would have had the slightest notion of AI as we call them today, and the strangest thing of all the 'marionette clones' got fed up of being clones and rebelled and took on the human form while disposing of the human ... spooky or what. The last step - disposing of the 'original' is redundant. It is in there to add narrative punctuation and a message, but strictly speaking, if you can be functionally replaced in all regards you are already in a sense dead. I have been mulling over this notion in my mind and trying to come up with a story that would illustrate this type of 'death' - the true horror that really awaits us. I suppose it started with the Terminator films when people sat up and took notice to AI, I've watched most of the Terminators and have this strange feeling they are more fact than fiction, the prospect of which is quite terrifying for all of mankind. |
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