Artificial Intelligence on the big screen
Isaac Asimov has contributed greatly to the way we think of artificial intelligence (AI) today, and a lot of his ideas are being used in movies. Of course, he is not the only one. From Asimov, through Philip K. Dick and Arthur Clark, to series of movies on robotics and artificial intelligence, writers, screenwriters and producers have more or less successfully dealt with this intriguing concept. There is one big theme within the field of artificial intelligence: technological singularity (TS), a term representing the development of artificial intelligence up to the point where it can “learn from experience”. From that point on, artificial intelligence can improve and create better versions of itself. This term started its' linguistic life as “strong artificial intelligence (“strong AI”), and the phrase was coined by Irving John (“I.J.”) Good. Some of the names also linked to this phrase are Sci-Fi writers Damien Broderick, Charlie Stross, futurologist Ray Kurzweil, ...