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from the who-is-the-father?-test-the-oil dept.
In contemporary science fiction, we often see robots passing themselves off as humans. According to a [University of Stavanger] researcher, the genre problematises what it takes to be accepted as a human being and provides a useful contribution to the debate about who should have the right to reproduce.
Science fiction culture has prospered and gone from being for nerds only in the 1970s and 1980s to becoming part of popular culture in the last two decades. This particularly applies to the TV series genre, which has become mainstream with Battlestar Galactica (2004), Heroes (2006) and Fringe (2008).
"The genre has evolved from depicting technology as a threat, to dealing with more intimate relations between humans and machines", says Ingvil Hellstrand. In her doctoral thesis, she points out that science fiction today is often about humanoid androids that are trying to become "one of us". According to Hellstrand, this is not incidental.
What is SN take on this issue??
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday August 01 2015, @07:09PM
I either have a higher opinion of dogs or a lower opinion of people than you.
I think that if we had AI as smart as a dog* then we would soon have AI as smart as people. And very soon after that, Singularity (godlike AI).
* I mean an AI that is actually as smart as a dog, not a set of canned responses that mimics a dog.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.