Star Wars: The Force Awakens Review Part 1
The main problem with The Force Awakens is that it’s the most strategic—and by that, I mean cynical—films I’ve ever seen.
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Gladwell’s Autonomy: The Future of Our Cars But Not Ourselves?
Malcolm Gladwell’s recent film probes independence, individuality, and what cars mean to usIn order to allow for autonomy to develop, the degrees of freedom available on the public roadways will probably have to decrease.
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How To Be Human: A Mind Matters Short Film Review
This new film turns a conventional sci-fi storytelling premise upside downMost AI sci-fi chronicles the struggle of sentient artificially intelligent (AI) beings grappling with how to become human. That makes sense from the viewer’s perspective. If I firmly believed that our humble video game algorithms would evolve into thinking, feeling beings, then I would, of course, conclude that they would struggle as they grappled with their newfound humanity. But a recent DUST release, How To Be Human, takes that narrative—and turns it upside down. Rather than an AI struggling to become human in a human-dominated world, we watch a human struggling to be more like an artificial intelligence in an AI-dominated world. Kimi (one of the protagonists) undertakes a journey in which she sheds all those things that make her Read More ›
Another Life: All Fun, Games Till an AI Falls in Love
Then it descends into a convoluted drift of uncertain storytellingAnd the victim is not primarily the viewer, who has other options. The victim is the art itself.
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A Closer Look at Detroit: Become Human, Part III
The second pillar of the AI religion is reductionism, the reduction of humanity to matter and energyIf the qualities that define being human (so that there is an obvious distinction between what is human and what is not) are not material by nature; then the premise of a compelling story about androids that become and surpass human beings as intelligent life falls flat.
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A Closer Look at Detroit: Become Human, Part II
One pillar, if you like, of the worldview of the “Church of AI” is the belief that our embrace of artificial intelligence is a step on the road to a higher form of life.Looking more closely, we can see that the stupidity and insignificance of human beings is a central dogma in the AI religion.
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Alita: Battle Angel: A Mind Matters Review
If you love anime and felt betrayed by the flop of Ghost, I would highly recommend AlitaAlthough it doesn’t strictly feature AI, Alita invites us to ponder what it means to be human. Are we defined by a human brain? Or are there aspects of being human that are not solely associated with the brain?
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A Closer Look at Detroit: Become Human, Part I
Gaming culture provides a window into our culture’s assumptions about artificial intelligenceIn the game, Detroit has transcended its current economic despair, emerging as the epicenter of the android revolution. Cyberlife, headquartered there, has become the first company to engineer and produce fully autonomous, general purpose AI androids for consumers.
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