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mk · 4264 days ago · link · · parent · post: Help building a curriculum on Narrative and Artificial Intelligence
Short Circuit is a great choice. It also made me think of Kit from Knight Rider, but they are painful to watch. The computer in War Games was borderline AI. For reading, I thought of a collection of essays put together by Daniel Dennet and Douglas Hofstadter called "The Mind's I". Some of those dealt with interesting ideas and paradox of AI. Perhaps a chapter or two from Godel, Escher, Bach. I'm thinking of one that concerns the intelligence of an ant colony. edit: Star Wars has the potentially interesting issue of how droids are intelligent, but treated like property. Luke is a slave owner. I also had the thought that the Turing test would be a good topic, and it even might be worth watching Watson school Ken Jennings on Jeopardy.