Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present, & Futures

My Philcon artificial intelligence talk is at 1pm tomorrow at Virtual Philcon 2020. You can register for it here.

I’ve uploaded a PDF of the talk to slideshare. The Obama Deep Fake movie was too large to uploaded, so I just used a still for that. The PDF has the references as well as the sources of all the images in the splash page above.

There are 22 images, 3 “real”, the rest from various films & so on.

• Talos — Jason & the Argonauts
• The Mechanical Turk — popular chess playing fake (18th century)
• Tik-Tok — Wizard of Oz
• Robot Maria — Metropolis
• Joe (transparent robot) — The Proud Robot
• Roy Batty (replicant) – Bladerunner
• R2-D2 & C-3PO — Star Wars
• Terminator — Terminator
• Rommie (ship avatar) — Andromeda
• Android Gunslinger — West World
• Commander Data — Star Trek Next Generation
• Mecha — AI
• Sonny — I, Robot
• BB-8 — Star Wars
• Eve & Wall-E — Wall-E
• Asimo — Honda robot
• Johnny 5 – Short Circuit
• Sophia — The First Robot Declared a Citizen by Saudi Arabia (2016)
• Janet — The Good Place
• Ava — Ex Machina
• Samantha — Her
• Denise Virtual Assistant — NextOS (now Realbotix)

And I have a number of references. These should be useful starting points. One of the striking things about these is that all are from the last five years; and all but two from the two years. The field is moving that fast!

• Miller 2019 – The Artist in the Machine
• Mitchell 2019 – Artificial Intelligence
• O’Neil 2016 – Weapons of Math Destruction
• Pickover 2019 – Artificial Intelligence
• Scharre 2018 – Army of None
• Shane 2019 – You look like a thing and I love you
• Tamboli 2019 – Keeping Your AI under Control
• Trask 2019 – Grokking Algorithms