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AI Narratives : A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (439 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780192586049
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  • 006.3
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Contents:
Cover -- AI NARRATIVES: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imagining AI -- 0.1 AI Narratives -- 0.2 The Impact of Narratives -- 0.3 Chapter Guide -- 0.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- Part I: ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY -- 1: Homer's Intelligent Machines: AI in Antiquity -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Homer's Automata -- 1.3 Homer's Autonomous Vehicles -- 1.4 Homer's Embodied AI -- 1.5 Homer's AI Legacy -- Notes -- Reference List -- 2: Demons and Devices: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence before AI -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Vigilant Sentries and Arbiters of Truth -- 2.3 Espionage and Surveillance -- 2.4 Prediction and Foreknowledge -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 3: The Android of Albertus Magnus: A Legend of Artificial Being -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Oracular Head -- 3.3 Medieval Origins -- 3.4 Debunking the Legend -- 3.5 Early Modern Interpretations -- 3.6 The Mechanics of the Speaking Statue -- 3.7 Conclusion -- Note -- Reference List -- 4: Artificial Slaves in the Renaissance and the Dangers of Independent Innovation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Aristotle's Conceptual Merging of Slaves and Machines Underpins Renaissance AI -- 4.3 How the Renaissance Adapted and Instantiated Aristotle's Ideas of Artificial Slaves -- 4.3.1 The Homunculus -- 4.3.2 The Golem -- 4.3.3 Innovation as Transgression: The Talking Brass Head in Robert Greene's Play -- 4.4 Conclusion: Connections between Yesterday and Today -- Notes -- Reference List -- 5: Making the Automaton Speak: Hearing Artificial Voices in the Eighteenth Century -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Exposing the Speaking Figure -- 5.3 Making Heads Talk, Simulating Organs of Speech, and Mixing Media -- 5.4 Kempelen's Speaking Machine: Mimetic Materials and Artificial Voice.
5.5 Fictions of Artificial Voice -- Notes -- Reference List -- 6: Victorian Fictions of Computational Creativity -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Lovelace Objection -- 6.3 Realists Caught in the Machine -- 6.3.1 Dickens's Mechanical Characters -- 6.3.2 Trollope and the Ethics of Mechanical Reproduction -- 6.4 Computational Creativity and the Human-Machine Divide -- Notes -- Reference List -- 7: Machines Like Us? Modernism and the Question of the Robot -- 7.1 Introduction: Modernism and Technophobia -- 7.2 Consciousness and the Technological Imaginary -- 7.3 Proto-Modernist Representations of Mechanical Intelligence -- 7.4 Modernism and Robot Consciousness -- Reference List -- Part II: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY -- 8: Enslaved Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Slavery, and Revolt -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Contemporary Debate on Machine Enslavement -- 8.3 R.U.R. and Slavery for Economic Profit -- 8.4 Thessaly and Manumission as a Threat to One's Comfort -- 8.5 Blade Runner and the Denial of Personhood -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 9: Machine Visions Artificial Intelligence, Society, and Control -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Perceiving Society as a Machine -- 9.3 Seeing the Human in Forster's' The Machine Stops' -- 9.4 Glimpses of Machine Futures: Asimov and Fairman -- 9.5 Watching the Contemporary Surveillance Machine: Person of Interest -- Notes -- Reference List -- 10: 'A Push-Button Type of Thinking': Automation, Cybernetics, and AI in Midcentury British Literature -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Automation and the 'Push-Button' Human -- 10.3 AI and the Cybernetic Organization -- 10.4 Heuristic Machines and Social Integration -- 10.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 11: Artificial Intelligence and the Parent-Child Narrative -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Theoretical and Methodological Approach.
11.3 When HARLIE Was One: The Disembodied AI Child -- 11.4 AI: Artificial Intelligence, D.A.R.Y.L., Star Trek-Embodied AI Children -- 11.5 Tron: Legacy: The AI Child as Legacy -- 11.6 Mind Children: AI as Humanity's Children -- 11.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- Reference List -- 12: AI and Cyberpunk Networks -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Classic Cyberpunk -- 12.3 Queer Afrofuturist Cyberpunk -- 12.4 Cyberpunk Spreads: Cinema and Activism -- 12.5 Cyberpunk as a Cultural Mode -- Note -- Reference List -- 13:AI: Artificial Immortality and Narratives of Mind Uploading -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 AI and the Problem of Death -- 13.3 Mind Uploading: The Promise of Technological Transcendence -- 13.4 Narratives of Mind Uploading in Speculative Nonfiction -- 13.5 Alternative Narratives: The Challenge from Fiction -- 13.5.1 The Sanity Problem -- 13.5.2 The Substrate Problem -- 13.5.3 The Identity Problem -- 13.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 14: Artificial Intelligence and the Sovereign-Governance Game -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The Culture -- 14.2.1 The Player of Games -- 14.2.2 Excession -- 14.3 Ancillary Justice -- 14.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 15: The Measure of a Woman: Fembots, Fact and Fiction -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Gendering Machines -- 15.3 Embodied Sex Robots-Ex Machina -- 15.4 Disembodied Love Robots-Her and Blade Runner 2049 -- 15.5 Life Imitating Art? -- 15.6 What About the Men? -- 15.7 Disrupting the Narrative -- Reference List -- 16: The Fall and Rise of AI: Investigating AI Narratives with Computational Methods -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Counting and Ranking -- 16.3 Searching for Concepts -- 16.4 Attendant Concepts -- 16.4.1 Co-occurrence and Frequency -- 16.4.2 Topic Modelling -- 16.5 Qualitative Data Analysis -- 16.6 Conclusions -- Notes -- Reference List -- Index.
Summary: This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines, featuring contributions from leading humanities and social science scholars who detail the narratives about artificial intelligence (AI) that in turn offer a crucial epistemic site for exploring contemporary debates about these powerful technologies.
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Cover -- AI NARRATIVES: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imagining AI -- 0.1 AI Narratives -- 0.2 The Impact of Narratives -- 0.3 Chapter Guide -- 0.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- Part I: ANTIQUITY TO MODERNITY -- 1: Homer's Intelligent Machines: AI in Antiquity -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Homer's Automata -- 1.3 Homer's Autonomous Vehicles -- 1.4 Homer's Embodied AI -- 1.5 Homer's AI Legacy -- Notes -- Reference List -- 2: Demons and Devices: Artificial and Augmented Intelligence before AI -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Vigilant Sentries and Arbiters of Truth -- 2.3 Espionage and Surveillance -- 2.4 Prediction and Foreknowledge -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 3: The Android of Albertus Magnus: A Legend of Artificial Being -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Oracular Head -- 3.3 Medieval Origins -- 3.4 Debunking the Legend -- 3.5 Early Modern Interpretations -- 3.6 The Mechanics of the Speaking Statue -- 3.7 Conclusion -- Note -- Reference List -- 4: Artificial Slaves in the Renaissance and the Dangers of Independent Innovation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Aristotle's Conceptual Merging of Slaves and Machines Underpins Renaissance AI -- 4.3 How the Renaissance Adapted and Instantiated Aristotle's Ideas of Artificial Slaves -- 4.3.1 The Homunculus -- 4.3.2 The Golem -- 4.3.3 Innovation as Transgression: The Talking Brass Head in Robert Greene's Play -- 4.4 Conclusion: Connections between Yesterday and Today -- Notes -- Reference List -- 5: Making the Automaton Speak: Hearing Artificial Voices in the Eighteenth Century -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Exposing the Speaking Figure -- 5.3 Making Heads Talk, Simulating Organs of Speech, and Mixing Media -- 5.4 Kempelen's Speaking Machine: Mimetic Materials and Artificial Voice.

5.5 Fictions of Artificial Voice -- Notes -- Reference List -- 6: Victorian Fictions of Computational Creativity -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Lovelace Objection -- 6.3 Realists Caught in the Machine -- 6.3.1 Dickens's Mechanical Characters -- 6.3.2 Trollope and the Ethics of Mechanical Reproduction -- 6.4 Computational Creativity and the Human-Machine Divide -- Notes -- Reference List -- 7: Machines Like Us? Modernism and the Question of the Robot -- 7.1 Introduction: Modernism and Technophobia -- 7.2 Consciousness and the Technological Imaginary -- 7.3 Proto-Modernist Representations of Mechanical Intelligence -- 7.4 Modernism and Robot Consciousness -- Reference List -- Part II: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY -- 8: Enslaved Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Slavery, and Revolt -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Contemporary Debate on Machine Enslavement -- 8.3 R.U.R. and Slavery for Economic Profit -- 8.4 Thessaly and Manumission as a Threat to One's Comfort -- 8.5 Blade Runner and the Denial of Personhood -- 8.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 9: Machine Visions Artificial Intelligence, Society, and Control -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Perceiving Society as a Machine -- 9.3 Seeing the Human in Forster's' The Machine Stops' -- 9.4 Glimpses of Machine Futures: Asimov and Fairman -- 9.5 Watching the Contemporary Surveillance Machine: Person of Interest -- Notes -- Reference List -- 10: 'A Push-Button Type of Thinking': Automation, Cybernetics, and AI in Midcentury British Literature -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Automation and the 'Push-Button' Human -- 10.3 AI and the Cybernetic Organization -- 10.4 Heuristic Machines and Social Integration -- 10.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 11: Artificial Intelligence and the Parent-Child Narrative -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Theoretical and Methodological Approach.

11.3 When HARLIE Was One: The Disembodied AI Child -- 11.4 AI: Artificial Intelligence, D.A.R.Y.L., Star Trek-Embodied AI Children -- 11.5 Tron: Legacy: The AI Child as Legacy -- 11.6 Mind Children: AI as Humanity's Children -- 11.7 Conclusions -- Notes -- Reference List -- 12: AI and Cyberpunk Networks -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Classic Cyberpunk -- 12.3 Queer Afrofuturist Cyberpunk -- 12.4 Cyberpunk Spreads: Cinema and Activism -- 12.5 Cyberpunk as a Cultural Mode -- Note -- Reference List -- 13:AI: Artificial Immortality and Narratives of Mind Uploading -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 AI and the Problem of Death -- 13.3 Mind Uploading: The Promise of Technological Transcendence -- 13.4 Narratives of Mind Uploading in Speculative Nonfiction -- 13.5 Alternative Narratives: The Challenge from Fiction -- 13.5.1 The Sanity Problem -- 13.5.2 The Substrate Problem -- 13.5.3 The Identity Problem -- 13.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 14: Artificial Intelligence and the Sovereign-Governance Game -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The Culture -- 14.2.1 The Player of Games -- 14.2.2 Excession -- 14.3 Ancillary Justice -- 14.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Reference List -- 15: The Measure of a Woman: Fembots, Fact and Fiction -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Gendering Machines -- 15.3 Embodied Sex Robots-Ex Machina -- 15.4 Disembodied Love Robots-Her and Blade Runner 2049 -- 15.5 Life Imitating Art? -- 15.6 What About the Men? -- 15.7 Disrupting the Narrative -- Reference List -- 16: The Fall and Rise of AI: Investigating AI Narratives with Computational Methods -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Counting and Ranking -- 16.3 Searching for Concepts -- 16.4 Attendant Concepts -- 16.4.1 Co-occurrence and Frequency -- 16.4.2 Topic Modelling -- 16.5 Qualitative Data Analysis -- 16.6 Conclusions -- Notes -- Reference List -- Index.

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines, featuring contributions from leading humanities and social science scholars who detail the narratives about artificial intelligence (AI) that in turn offer a crucial epistemic site for exploring contemporary debates about these powerful technologies.

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