Index

Lee Barron (Northumbria University, UK)

AI and Popular Culture

ISBN: 978-1-80382-330-0, eISBN: 978-1-80382-327-0

Publication date: 3 April 2023

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Barron, L. (2023), "Index", AI and Popular Culture (Society Now), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 231-241. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-327-020231009

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Copyright © 2023 Lee Barron. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited


INDEX

A. I. Rising (Serbian film)
, 123

Age of surveillance capitalism
, 163

Agent57 (AI system)
, 28–29

Äkta Människor/Real Humans (Swedish television series)
, 149–150

Alex (AI-powered personal assistants)
, 3

Alexa (AI digital assistants)
, 165–166, 173–174, 182–183

Algorithm-managed disruptive financial platforms
, 31–33

Algorithmic surveillance
, 195

Alibaba
, 31

Alipay accounts
, 160

AlphaGo (platforms)
, 37–38

AlphaZero scoring
, 30

Alterity concept
, 5–7, 173–174

Amazon
, 31

Amazon Music (AI-based platforms)
, 170–171

Amazon’s Alexa (digital assistants)
, 171

Amazonian robot
, 183

Analytical Engine
, 13–14

Ancient Aliens
, 129–130

Andromeda (science fiction series)
, 132–133

Anthropomorphization process
, 181–182

Apocalyptic AI
, 105–106

Apple Music (AI-based platforms)
, 170–171

Apple’s Siri (digital assistants)
, 171

Applied Lucent Intelligence Emulator (A.L.I.E.)
, 143–144

Apps
, 183–184

Archive (films)
, 106–107, 137

Arkadia settlement
, 143–144

Arthur Samuel’s checkers program
, 18–19

Artificial Friend (AF)
, 85–86

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
, 7–8, 11–12, 40–41, 49–50

Artificial humans
, 187–188

Artificial intelligence (AI)
, 1–2, 6–9, 11–12, 47, 89–90, 129, 156, 165–166, 191

abilities
, 126–127

AI-based platforms
, 170–171

AI-centric epoch
, 112–113

AI-driven autonomy
, 130–131

AI-driven facial recognition
, 196

AI-driven platforms
, 161

AI-powered personal assistants
, 3

AI-powered visual recognition algorithms
, 12

AI-themed films
, 191–192

androids
, 123, 132, 135–136

artificial reality
, 183–187

autonomy I
, 131–136

autonomy II
, 136–142

beginnings
, 12–18

bots
, 168

as cultural platform
, 166–171

Dartmouth 1956, and first waves of machine intelligence
, 18–23

and deepfakes
, 183–187

from deepfakes to AI influencers
, 187–190

digital assistants
, 165–166

engineering
, 83

ethics
, 148–155

future AI visions
, 34–40

intelligence explosion
, 55–56

living with AI companions
, 171–183

machine learning
, 123

of Neuromancer
, 69–70

products
, 171–172

realities
, 40–45

representations of AI before
, 48–63

revolution
, 3

speculations
, 126–128

stories of machines
, 78–87

superintelligence
, 11–12

supertools
, 31–33

surveillance
, 155–163

tales of singularity
, 64–78

technology
, 22

THAW
, 23–34

voice assistants
, 173–174

Artificial narrow intelligence (ANI)
, 51

ANI-based algorithms
, 52–53

Artificial Neural Networks
, 25

Artificial reality
, 183–187

Artificial Stupidity (AS)
, 51–52

Asgardian technology
, 101–102

Asimov Robot Laws
, 114–115

AUTO-INTELLECTION panels
, 63

Automan (1980s television escapist drama)
, 132

Automated employment hiring algorithms
, 42

Automation process
, 2–3, 31, 33

Automaton
, 2

Autonomous driving
, 139

Autonomous intelligence
, 48–49

Autonomous mobility
, 138–139

Autonomous vehicles (AVs)
, 130–131

Avogadro Corp
, 73–74

Baidu
, 31

Battlestar Galactica (2000s reboot of 1970s serial)
, 134–135, 142–143, 151–152

BINAC machine
, 16

Black Mirror (science fiction anthology series)
, 155–156

Blade Runner 2049 (Film)
, 137, 165–166, 179–180, 182

Blake’s 7 (Terry Nation’s cult British science fiction drama)
, 131–132

Bombe, The
, 15–16

British science-fiction film
, 117

Cambridge Analytica
, 161–162

Cambridge University
, 15–16

Cancer prediction
, 126–127

Capucine (AI platform)
, 82–83

Chappie robot
, 121–122

China’s Xiaoice
, 174–175

Cinematic machines
, 121–126

City of Light, The
, 144

Code 404 (comedy crime drama)
, 132–133

Codebreaking machine
, 15–16

Colossus machine
, 16

Colossus: The Forbin Project film
, 94–95

CompStat
, 52–53

Computational rationality
, 19–20

Computer-based “intelligence explosion”
, 75

Computers
, 16

Connectionist AI approach
, 25–26

Conversational shopping
, 167–168

Corporations
, 159–160

Cortana (AI digital assistants)
, 165–167

Couture
, 169–170

Covenant
, 166–167

Criminal justice process
, 52–53

Cultural platform, AI as
, 166–171

Culture
, 57–59

Cyberdyne Systems Model 101/T-800 cyborg Terminator machine
, 99–100

Cybernetics
, 131–132

Cylons
, 134–135

“Dark Storm” project
, 101

Dartmouth 1956
, 18–23

Dartmouth AI conference (1956)
, 11–12

Dartmouth conference
, 21

Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence conference (1956)
, 19–20

Data-centric determinism
, 83, 171

Deep Blue systems
, 23–25

Deep learning (see also Machine learning)
, 11–12, 28–29

Deep neural networks (DNNs)
, 165–166, 183–184

Deep Thought
, 23–25

Deepfakes

AI and
, 183–187

to AI influencers
, 187–190

technology
, 186

Delete (Canadian mini series)
, 146, 148

Demon Seed (film)
, 64–65, 96, 183–184

DENDRAL
, 21–22

Detroit: Become Human game
, 166–167

Digital “deep fakes”
, 165–166

Digital assistants
, 171, 183

Digital products
, 167–168

Discriminator
, 184–185

DOCTOR program
, 172–173

Echo (AI-powered personal assistants)
, 3

Ederlezi Corporation
, 123

EDITH (AI Assistant)
, 176

EGO-REINFORCEMENT panels
, 63

Electricity of intelligence
, 30

ELIZA (natural language processing tool)
, 21, 171–172

effect
, 173–174, 178–179

ELOPe
, 73–74

Email Language Optimization Project
, 73–74

Emotional risk assessments
, 126–127

ENIAC (large computers)
, 14–16, 62

Enterprise’s Data
, 132

Environmo computer system
, 96

European Commission’s report (2019 report)
, 148–149

Ex Machina (television show)
, 182, 191–192

Extra-terrestrial Vegetation Evaluator (EVE)
, 108–109

Facebook
, 31, 42

Facebook’s Metaverse
, 188–189

Facial recognition systems
, 160

Faerie Queene (Spenser)
, 194–195

FakeApp app
, 183–184

Fashion brands
, 168–169

Fashion sectors
, 169–170

Feedback loop
, 35–36

Ferranti Mark I machine
, 16

Films
, 165–166

AI speculations
, 126–128

cinematic machines
, 121–126

imagining singularity
, 99–107

imaginings
, 128

machines
, 90–99

Turing test and thinking machines
, 107–120

First Industrial Revolution
, 31–33

“Flesh Fair” circus
, 111–112

Ford
, 138–139

Foundation for Law and Government (FLAG)
, 136–137

Fourth Industrial Revolution
, 31–33

Fourth Revolution
, 31–33

Frankenstein (first film version of Mary Shelley’s)
, 60, 89–90, 195

Frankenstein Syndrome
, 50–51, 60–61, 95, 115–116, 183, 192–193

Frankenstein’s monster
, 50–51

Functional computers
, 98–99

Futurama (animated series)
, 129

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
, 161–162

General Motors
, 138–139

Generative adversarial networks (GANs)
, 96–97, 165–166, 184–185

Generator
, 184–185

German Enigma machine
, 15–16

Global Thermonuclear War
, 97–98

Gog film
, 90–91

Golem, The
, 49

GOLEM XIV (Stanislaw Lem)
, 64

Good Old-Fashioned AI (GOFAI)
, 21–22

Google
, 31, 42, 160–161

Google Assistant (AI digital assistants)
, 165–166, 171, 173–174

Google’s Alphabet Labs
, 159

Google’s DeepMind
, 28–30

Google’s DeepMind’s AlphaGo AI system
, 23–25

Google’s Waymo
, 138–139

GooLeNet image recognition program
, 51

Halo games (film)
, 166–167, 182

Hebbian Learning process
, 25

Her (television show)
, 165–166, 176–177, 182, 191–192

Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer (HAL)
, 61–62, 91

HAL 9000 computer
, 45, 61–62

legacy of
, 126–128

syndrome
, 45, 60–61

Household robots
, 34–35

Human imagination
, 92–93

Human Intelligence Tasks (HIT)
, 36–37

Human-like androids
, 152

Human/machine symbiosis
, 34–40

Humanity League
, 57–59

Humanoid robot variations
, 5–6

Humans (British television series)
, 149

HunchLab
, 52–53

I (Film)
, 165–166

IBM
, 42

Deep Blue system
, 23–25

IEEE Code of Ethics
, 161–162

Information explosion
, 34–35

Institute for Applied Ethics
, 76–78

Intelligence explosion
, 39, 192–193

Intelligent automatons
, 53–54

Intelligent humanoid machines
, 5–6

Intelligent machines
, 40

Intelligent problem-solving machines
, 1–2

Internet
, 79–80

Internet-of-Things (IoT)
, 2, 31, 33, 156

IoT-saturated “sentient city”
, 159

IoT-saturated “smart city”
, 159

Intuition
, 65

Iron Man/Avengers films
, 175–176

J.A.R.V.I.S. (AI assistant system)
, 102, 175–176

K.A.R.R. (AV’s adversaries)
, 142–143

Kill Command
, 123–124

Knight Industries Two Thousand (K.I.T.T)
, 136–137

Knight Rider (1980s TV series)
, 136–137, 141–142

LaMDA language system
, 191

Law of Accelerated Returns (LOAR)
, 36

Learning algorithm
, 122

Legacy of HAL
, 126–128

Levi Strauss & Co
, 168–169

London Mathematical Society (1947)
, 18–19

Luxury fashion houses
, 168–169

Machine, The
, 117, 156–159

Machine learning
, 6–7, 23, 25, 27–29, 34, 78

ability
, 31

algorithms
, 27

black box systems
, 90–91

machine learning–based algorithms
, 42

machine learning–themed films
, 126–127

Machine Learning Scenario
, 196

Machines
, 2, 64, 134–135

as dictator or human/machine symbiosis
, 34–40

drift
, 83

first waves of machine intelligence
, 18–23

machine-based “task encroachment”
, 127–128

machine-to-machine learning
, 31–33

of R.U.R.
, 59

rebellion
, 119–120

transcendence
, 115–116

Mandalorian, The (television series)
, 185–186

Marjorie Prime (Film)
, 165–166, 178–179

Master Control Programme (MCP)
, 96

Matrix, The (Film)
, 159–160, 165–166

Matrix’s AI, The
, 101–102

MaxAI
, 70–71

Media
, 4–5

organizations
, 12

Metropolis
, 89–90

Microsoft
, 42

Microsoft’s Cortana (digital assistants)
, 171

MinAI “ethical robot”
, 70–71

Minority Report (films)
, 137, 196

Mobile digital devices
, 4–5

Moon-Watcher
, 61–62

Murderbot
, 70–71

Mutual hybridization process
, 35–36

MYCIN
, 21–22

Nanotech “resurrection”
, 76–78

Narrow AI
, 2–3, 7–8, 11–12, 40, 45, 197

Natural language processing (NLP)
, 28, 167–168

NetEase
, 31

Netflix (AI-based platforms)
, 170–171, 188–189

Neural Intelligence & Robotics Systems
, 146–148

Neural net route
, 25–26

Neural net winter
, 25–26

Neural networks
, 11–12, 23, 26, 34

Neuromancer charts
, 66–68

neXt (television series)
, 175–176

Next Nostradamus, The (History Channel’s documentary)
, 129–130

Nexus-6 android type
, 60

Nimani 1345 (AI android)
, 123

Nuclear power plants
, 146

Orac
, 131–132

Pandemonium
, 47–48

Parks and Recreation (US comedy series)
, 160–161

People’s Party, The
, 76–78

Perceptron
, 25–26

Peripheral
, 125–126

Person of Interest series
, 156–157, 196

Personal AI assistants
, 5–6

Petrov’s rationale
, 83

Philosophical movement
, 3–4

Popular Culture
, 6–9

Postphenomenological concept
, 173–174

Postphenomenology
, 3–5

Predictive analytics
, 167–168

Predictive behavioral analytics
, 82–83

Predictive policing systems
, 160

Predpol
, 52–53, 160, 196

PREDPREY system
, 80

Primes (holographic AI companion)
, 178–179

Pygmalion (Shaw’s play)
, 171–172

Random Failure Syndrome (RFS)
, 78–79

Ratiocination
, 13–14

Ready-to-wear
, 169–170

Real-world crime prediction systems
, 52–53

Real-world platforms
, 180–181

Reinforcement learning
, 30

Report (television show)
, 191–192

Revolutionary Independence From Technology (RIFT)
, 104–105

Robojudges
, 37

Robopocalypse (Daniel H. Wilson’s novel)
, 193–194

Robot (Films)
, 165–166

Robotics
, 2–3

surgery
, 126–127

Robots
, 59–61, 101, 112–113, 129

chauffeur
, 34–35

empathy crisis
, 191

Rosenblatt’s system
, 25–26

Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R)
, 57

Sally (Isaac Asimov short story)
, 141–142

Samantha (OS1 AI operating system)
, 176–177

Science Fiction (Sci-Fi)
, 8–9

projection
, 139

Second Revolution
, 31–33

Security Unit (SecUnit)
, 69–71

Self-aware cyborgs
, 2

Self-programming approach
, 117

Self-replicating system, John von Neumann conception of
, 104–105

Sentient superintelligent computer systems
, 2

SHRDLU system (Terry Winograd)
, 21–22

Sidewalk Toronto projects
, 159

Sina
, 31

Singularity
, 11–12, 35–36, 45

commentators
, 129–130

concept
, 47

imagination
, 99–107

singularity-based themes
, 106

tales of
, 64–78

Singularity, The
, 99, 142, 147

Siri (AI digital assistants)
, 3, 165–166, 173–174, 182–183

Skynet
, 99–100

Skynet Scenario
, 100–101

Smart automation
, 31–33

Smart machine
, 89–90

Smart robotics
, 31–33

Society of Automotive Engineers
, 137–138

South Park (acerbic animated comedy series)
, 178–179

Space Odyssey, A (Stanley Kubrick’s film version of 2001)
, 91, 93, 145–146, 165–166

Space shuttle
, 22

Spider-Man (Film)
, 165–166, 176–177

Spider-Man: Far From Home
, 176

Spider-Man: Homecoming (film)
, 182

Spotify (AI-based platforms)
, 170–171

Strong AI
, 92–93, 191

Study. Analyse. Reprogramme machines (S.A.R machines)
, 123–124

Superintelligence
, 49–50, 149

Supervised learning
, 29

Supervised machine learning
, 121

Surveillance culture
, 156

Symbolic AI
, 11–12

Synthetics (Synths)
, 149–151

Tech companies
, 31

Technological products
, 167–168

TEIRESIAS system
, 21–22

Television

AI autonomy I
, 131–136

AI autonomy II
, 136–142

AI ethics
, 148–155

living with machine
, 155–163

shows
, 191–192

stories
, 129–130

the singularity
, 142–147

Tencent
, 31

Terminator, The (Film)
, 165–166

Terminator-style robot
, 191

Tesla
, 138–139

Thinking machines
, 107–120

Third Revolution
, 31–33

Three Laws of Robotics
, 1–2

Tobor the Great
, 121

Top Gun: Maverick (film)
, 193–194

“Top-down” approach
, 21–22

Total Recall (films)
, 137

Transcendence
, 106, 146, 148

Turing Machine concept
, 15–16

Turing test
, 16, 18, 107, 118, 120, 183

Twitter
, 31

Two-layer neural net
, 25

UNIVAC machine
, 16

Universal basic income (UBI)
, 6–7, 57, 59

“Universal Turing Machine” formulation
, 15–16

Unsupervised learning
, 30

approach of AIs
, 84

US military plans
, 146–148

Versuchsfahrzeug für autonome Mobilität und Rechnersehen (VaMP)
, 138–139

Victorian game
, 16

Video games
, 166–167

Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence system (V.I.K.I. system)
, 113–114

Virtual subjects
, 149

Voice
, 175

assistants
, 182–183

user chatbots
, 174–175

Voight-Kampff test
, 109–110

War Operation Plan Response (WOPR)
, 97–98

WarGames
, 98

Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class (WALL-E)
, 108–109

Watson (AI system)
, 28

“We Are People” (anti-Synth group)
, 150–151

We Need to Talk About A. I. (Leanne Pooley’s documentary)
, 126–127, 139–140

Weak AI
, 31, 33, 92–93

Webmind (computer intelligence)
, 78–79

Westworld (television show)
, 152, 154–155, 191–192

concept
, 151–152

hosts
, 152–153

Wintermute
, 67–68

Wonder Woman film (2017)
, 185–186

Word algorithm
, 27

Xymos Technology
, 80

Year We Make Contact, The
, 93–94

Zao app
, 183–184