Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence, the intelligence exhibited by machines and software, is essentially an enhanced simulation machine that is able to simulate immaterial real world thoughts in human minds. Karl Marx, in The Fragment of Machines, pointed out that labor is fragmented and organized around the demands of machine to adapt the new form of time and space created by the machine under the ideological and economic system of capitalism. Similarly, artificial intelligence, as a simulation machine, fragments human lives, identities and intellectual labors around it to incorporate people’s virtual identity and real-world identity where the virtual and the real have to co-exist. In the following discussions, theories raised in Dartmouth Conference of Artificial intelligence, Bill Nichols’ The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems, Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines and Martin Ford’s The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future and examples from Nancy Baym’s Personal Connections in the Digital Age, Andrew Mendelson and Zizi Papacharissi’s Look at Us are going to be studied to understand how artificial intelligence as an advanced simulation machine incorporates the real of a person and the virtual of a person.
Artificial intelligence can be a very eluding topic for many people to talk about, since it is really a tech-based topic. To know more about the application of Artificial Intelligence in your life, please read through the following links:1. How Google's bot can talk to you: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tests-new-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-2015-6
2. The earliest AI therapist: http://www.manifestation.com/neurotoys/eliza.php3
3. To read more about how AI and simulation works in the gaming world, please read here: Perfection of the Simulated World
Sources:
1. Wikipedia, Artificial Intelligence, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence