Yu Que Professor Michael Rectenwald Science, Technology and Society July 2015 Sense and Sensibility of Artificial Intelligence: Introduction When Machines Can Love Michael Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most breath-taking topics in science and technology fields today. While the time frame of its real emergence has long been the focus of debates, the moral concern of such a practice is a more urgent question for the human race to answer. Authors and pundits from Mary Shelley in 1818 to Stephen Spielberg in 2001 have expressed their views on this problem already. British computer scientist Alan Turing was asked the question “can machines think?” half a decade ago, after which he developed the Turing test as a means …show more content…
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley in 1818. In this masterpiece, the young student of science Victor Frankenstein creates a living creature by assembling pieces of corpses. The creature has a hideous look and everyone he meets is afraid of him, which drives him into living in the woods. A family lives very close to him in a small cottage then. He learns the human language from listening to the family’s daily conversations and from reading the books they throw away. Understandably, he comes to have this desire to make friends with the family before long, hoping that his human-like intelligence will make them feel somehow connected with him. The family, however, leaves the house immediately out of fear, leading the creature to outrage and doubt about his existence. He blamed Frankenstein for bringing him to life, and …show more content…
However, emotions obtained by such an empirical method can be negative and therefore can pose a threat to mankind. Here comes the challenge – is there a way to endow artificial intelligence with an individual right to develop its own emotions, but without threatening the existence of the human Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM race? In the later sections, I will try to shed some light on the questions raised above from a more scientific perspective. Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM 3. Current Developments in the Field Human beings tend to involve emotions into their decision-making process. Recent studies have shown that advanced artificial intelligence can actually do the same. Multi-agents system (MAS) is a system in which more than one intelligent agent can work together to achieve a collective goal. In such systems, the cooperation and negotiation within machines have been observed. Therefore, it is not Michael Rectenwald 7/30/2015 3:49 PM 5 The Blue Fairy is a character in the fairy tale Pinocchio. Her magic successfully transforms Pinocchio, the puppet, into a human boy. Field available for additional information in
"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is a sci-fi novel composed by Mary Shelley. This is the story of a science understudy, Victor Frankenstein, who made a beast amid one of his trials. This beast ends up being an inconvenience for Victor. The creature depicted as a living being with all the emotions and feelings, and his appearance of beast was a huge issue when he felt that individuals dreaded him, and they abhor him. He would not like to murder individuals; indeed he attempted to spare a young lady, yet because of dread a man attempted to execute him as a beast. Victor 's sibling additionally attempted to shout when he saw him, in his endeavor to keep the kid calm, he strangled the kid. To stay away from all these killings, he asked Victor to make him a female with the goal that he can leave this spot with his mate and will never come in broad daylight. Victor concurred, however when he understood the results of this entire type of creatures, he slaughtered the fragmented female. Creature attempted to take reprisal and murdered Victor 's wives. The story was an incredible achievement and confronted negative feedback before all else. Commentators consider it as a sickening awfulness story; however with its prosperity it got different positive remarks.
“The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe” (Paul). Mary Shelley was an English writer born on August 30, 1797 in London, England. Shelley is best known for her horror novel Frankenstein (1818) and the Modern Prometheus (1818). She is that author of several other books which include Valperga (1823), The Last Man (1826), the autobiographical Lodore (1835), as well as several others. Frankenstein is a novel that follows Victor Frankenstein’s journey of attempting to receive recognition through his scientific pursuits which include attempting to reanimate life using dead human body parts, resulting in the creation of the the Creature or the Monster. The novel follows Victor’s hardships and his guilt of creating a Creature that lead to not only his downfall, but his family’s as well. An important theme that is present throughout the novel Frankenstein is the controversy over who is ultimately responsible for the evil actions that the Creature partakes in. Victor is liable for the creature 's evil actions due to his lack of morality and his failure of not meddling with nature whilst on the journey to creating life, lack of accountability to care for the Creature as his legitimate owner and hubristic nature which forces him to put his welfare before anyone else’s .
Frankenstein is a book written by Mary Shelley in 1818, that is revolved around a under privileged scientist named Victor Frankenstein who manages to create a unnatural human-like being. The story was written when Shelley was in her late teen age years, and was published when she was just twenty years old. Frankenstein is filled with several different elements of the Gothic and Romantic Movement of British literature, and is considered to be one of the earliest forms of science fiction. Frankenstein is a very complicated and complex story that challenges different ethics and morals on the apparent theme of dangerous knowledge. With the mysterious experiment that Dr. Victor Frankenstein conducted, Shelly causes her reader to ultimately ask
Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley, tells the story of a bright and ambitious scientist that wishes to discover the secrets of life. After several years of research, he achieves his goal and brings to life a creature fashioned from old body parts. Horrified by his creation, Victor flees and spends the rest of his life hiding from and witnessing horrendous acts by the creature he so desperately wanted to create.
Written in 1817 by Mary Shelley, Frankenstein is a novel about the "modern Prometheus", the Roman Titian who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. The story takes place in several European countries during the late 1700's. It is the recollection of Victor Frankenstein to a ship captain about his life. Victor is a student of science and medicine who discovers a way to reanimate dead flesh. In a desire to create the perfect race he constructs a man more powerful than any normal human, but the creation is so deformed and hideous that Victor shuns it. The creation then spends a year wandering searching for companionship, but everywhere he goes he is shunned and feared. Hating life
Work done with the thought of an artificial intelligence so advanced that is could converse and have emotions just as we do is nothing but disturbing. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the creators of Google, are quoted in Carr’s article stating, “The ultimate search engine is something as smart as people-- or smarter.” Pages also says “For us, working on search is a way to work on artificial intelligence.” For me this thought is scary. As much as I use and appreciate the ease of the internet, it makes me scared for the future in which my children will live in and how badly things could take a turn for the worse. All we can do is hope that our predecessors are smart enough to know when enough is enough, and the young people who are growing up in its world will be able to expand it in a healthy and helpful
In 1818 Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelley. In Frankenstein, Victor Frankenstein brings a creature to life. The creature kills William, Henry Clerval, and Elizabeth. Victor had promised to make a female creature for the creature, but he did not fulfill his promise. This makes the creature enraged. The creature runs away and Victor follows him. Victor gets on a boat with Walton. Victor dies and the creature comes and is very sad that his creator has died. The creature says that he must end his suffering and he jumps into the ocean. In the novel Frankenstein, Shelley uses the theme of nature to show how it is like the characters of the story and how it affects the characters.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is chiefly considered to be a horror novel. The books author, Mary Shelley, masterfully weaves a story that has petrified audiences for centuries with its grotesque nature and disturbing events. However it is clear that both the characterization of Victor Frankenstein and his fallen angel, the Monster, portray an additional frightening aspect of the story; their mutual descent into hysteric madness.With a deft hand, Mary Shelley successfully conveys the gradual downfall of both her protagonist and his spawn.
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by an english author, Mary Shelley, in the setting of the 1700s; about a young science student who performs an experiment and creates a hideous, yet sincere monster. The creation of this monster leads to many huge events in the story, while using many different themes to explain the purpose of certain incidents. Over the course of the novel, Shelley uses symbolism, isolation, and biblical allusion to show secondary meanings for the characters choices.
Frankenstein is a gothic horror novel that was written by Mary Shelly and was published in 1818, when gothic aesthetic, romanticism and science were beginning to spike in western culture. The novel follows the story of Victor Frankenstein in creating a monster which causes destruction around him, as Victor had ambition and thirst to reveal the secrets of nature. The novel could be viewed as a warning to the readers and audience about having a greed for knowledge and power. Mary Shelley explores the idea of having obtained too much knowledge and curiosity and playing god which involves consequences and dangers that come with it throughout the text. It also compares the human development of emotions and has
Frankenstein was written by Mary Shelly in 1818. It entails a tragic story of a man’s uncontrollable need for knowledge and a Creature’s insatiable desired to be loved and accepted. While studying at college, Victor Frankenstein is burdened with an obsessive yearning to discover life’s greatest mystery, the creation of life. But after successfully creating life, Victor is overwhelmed by the Creature’s grotesque appearance and quickly refuses to love or care for him. Because of this abandonment and the brutal treatment of society, the Creature sets out on an endless pursuit to destroy his creator and tormentor. Although the Creature is viewed as the monster throughout the story, the true evil is within Victor.
Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley has made a lasting impression on literature through the ages. Written during the romanticism period, the novel had dark undertones and a twisted plot. The protagonist, Victor Frankenstein revealed how one’s relentless pursuit of knowledge can also be one’s downfall. Shelley wrote in both Victor and the creature’s point of view showing how both experienced destructive lives when fueled by the need for knowledge. As the story continued, she also wrote in a play by play sequence to highlight the consequences of Victor and the creatures actions.
Frankenstein commonly known as The Modern Prometheus, was written by the great English novelist Mary Shelley in 1818. In this novel we are told story of scientist Victor Frankenstein. Victor lost his mother at a very young age, and dedicated his life to science in an effort to grief the death of his mother. Victor became very gifted in chemistry and even developed a way to replicated humans, however due to the fact that that he could not completely replicate a human in an exact manner, the end product resulted in the creation of a grotesque and unconventional creature that we now know as the creation of Frankenstein. Frankenstein has had an impact on a cross section of media such as books, movies, art and has even been recreated and rewritten
To begin, the world must not create sentient AI due to their emotions. One reason is because their emotions will get the best of them. Frankenstein’s monster demonstrates this as he cries out, “Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?”
Frankenstein was a story written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley while she was on her vacation in Switzerland with her husband. The story got published in 1818 without letting the public about the author. It was in 1831 when the novel revised edition was out and Mary Shelley name mentioned as an author. The novel focused on social, cultural and political facet of the societies during Mary’s lifetime. The fictional character in the novel clearly shows the battle against the pre-established people’s attitude during that time. Religion and science always create a controversy in the society with religion always differencing from any scientific principles and experiments. Shelley’s tried to addresses the above controversy and showed how science and modern technology is sometimes wrong. She tried to show how scientists and inventors are sometimes selfish only care for achieving their plan without evaluating the end result.