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mk  ·  4268 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Help building a curriculum on Narrative and Artificial Intelligence

    Gustav Meyrink's The Golem, the Pygmalion bit of Ovid, or Frankenstein, for a hint that some of the stock depictions of artificial intelligence might not have all that much to do with technology at all.

I was thinking about Pinocchio in a similar vein. He is animate, and can even feel longing to be a 'real' boy, but there is something about him that isn't genuine.