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artificial intelligence
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artificial intelligence (är´te-fîsh´el
în-tèl´e-jens) noun
Abbr. AI
Computer Science.
1. The ability of a machine
to perform those activities that are normally thought to require intelligence.
2. The branch of computer
science concerned with the development of machines having this ability.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI), a
term that in its broadest sense would indicate the ability of an artifact to
perform the same kinds of functions that characterize human thought. With the
growth of modern science, the search for AI has taken two major directions:
psychological and physiological research into the nature of human thought, and
the technological development of increasingly sophisticated computing systems.
In the latter sense, the term AI has been applied to computer systems and programs
capable of performing tasks more complex than straightforward programming, although
still far from the realm of actual thought. The most important fields of research
in this area are information processing, pattern recognition, game-playing computers,
and applied fields such as medical diagnosis. Current research in informationprocessing
deals with programs that enable a computer to understand written or spoken information
and to produce summaries, answer specific questions, or redistribute information
to users interested in specific areas of this information.
Directed by
Stanley
Kubrick
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Kubrick died before completion of film. video director Chris
Cunningham (dir. videos for Aphex
Twin, Squarepusher,
Autechre) worked on the film for 1.5 years before quitting.
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Hans
Moravec and used his book _Mind Children_ as a source for ideas.
Premise: Only snippets of the storyline have been announced. The show is set in the 21st Century at a time when the Greenhouse Effect has melted sections of the polar icecaps, leaving Earth's coastal cities partially submerged. One of the new tools Mankind utilizes to manage this environmental disaster and survive is a new form of computer, one that is self-aware of its own existence - an artificial intelligence, known as an A.I. computer.
First announced in fall 1994 as Kubrick's next official
project, following 1987's _Full Metal Jacket_ (vhs/ntsc).
When the project was announced, Kubrick commented that he had the concept of
the film for a number of years, and was now actively developing the project
based upon the breakthrough in special effects and computer animation in _Jurassic
Park_. With the advancements made in digital
illusion, Kubrick felt that now was the right time
the images from inside his mind could be translated faithfully to the screen.
As with all previous Kubrick films, expect the show to be as much a drama as
a collection of futuristic imagery.
Soon after the project was
announced, a strong rumor arose on the Internet
claiming
that the Kubrick project was developed from a Brian Aldiss short story.
Specifics of the plot are extremely scarce, so it cannot be confirmed presently.
Rumors: Summer, 1995... A
strong rumor circulating in the special effects industry mentions that
Stanley Kubrick met with Industrial Light
& Magic
supervisor Dennis Muren to discuss effects work for A.I..
December, 1995... With little information
on
the status of the project, the discussion of the likelihood of A.I. making
it at all to the screen begins. Although the Aldiss premise has not been
confirmed, rumors float about that the storyline is being re-tooled,
with a de-emphasis of the submerged coastal cities (echoes of _Waterworld_
spin in the thoughts of some studio exec, somewhere I'm sure). As well,
now there's talk of the project being re-titled Supertoys (and no, Robin
Williams is not in it).
April 2, 1996... Development on A.I. is in the final stages of set design and special-effects development, reports Associated Press. Kubrick plans to return to direct involvement with the project after completing Eyes Wide Shut.
June 2, 1996... A long, unsubstantiated rumor is that A.I. actually began production years ago with Joseph Mazzello (Tim from _Jurassic Park_) starring.
June 28, 1996...
"Kubrick, as we well know, has had A.I. in development for several years now. The narrative follows the development of a child and his inter-relation with the technology that surrounds him. We can safely assume here that this technology will be represented by the AI.
"The trick is that the film traces the boys development, not over weeks or months, but YEARS.
"Kubrick began shooting with Joseph Mazzello (Tim from Jurassic Park) as early as 1992. The film shoots four weeks at a time every couple of years with Joseph at a different age.
"Kubrick discovered Mazzello. Spielberg found out that Kubrick was directing a remarkable young actor when he was screen testing Jurassic Park...The rest is history.
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"Another rumour centres around Kubrick begining the A.I. effects shots optically but halting them as soon as he was privy to the JP CGI Dinos."
May 17, 1998... The latest issue
of the Swedish fashion magazine Bibel may have just revealed the premise of
the long-lost A.I. film. The magazine features an interview with Chris
Cunningham, director of the Madonna video Frozen and Aphex
Twin's video _Come to Daddy_.
In the piece Cunningham says that he designed robots for Kubrick's A. I., being
quoted as saying "I spent a year in Kubrick's house putting them together."
According to the article Cunningham also says that the film is actually about
a boy who is a robot. Despite
rumours to the contrary, we're told that Joseph Mazzelo will NOT be starring
in A.I. The rumour started because Mazzelo was under a two-year contract with
Kubrick for a role in The Aryan Papers, an adaptation of the Holocaust-era novel
Wartime Lies. But when two years had passed (during which Kubrick allowed Mazzelo
to appear in Richard Attenborough's Shadowlands) and Aryan Papers failed to
materialise, Mazzelo was at last released from his contract. The Mazzelos have
since decided not to renew their contract with Kubrick.
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March 28, 1999... "Two weeks ago
the Independent newspaper here in London published an article by Sara Maitland
who worked on the script for A.I. Amongst the things she revealed were: Kubrick
always referred to the project as 'Pinnochio', that Aldiss was fired for leaving
the country without Kubrick's permission, that a drowned New York does appear,
that the story spans three millennia and that identity was a key theme (apparently
Kubrick was unimpressed by _Blade
Runner_ (vhs/ntsc) (avi)(695.2megs)and
its view of what makes a human). As well as the above it also details Kubrick's
working methods and home life. April
20, 1999..."I ain't happening - though I guess you've figured that much out.
The rumour about 35% of the fx being done is BS. There is NO completed footage
of A.I. in existence. The only footage is fx TESTS that were made by ILM between
1993-1997. This footage totals less that five minutes and was not rendered at
film res. The five minutes consists of three short (15-35 sec) sequences, rendered
several times in, at different levels of realism. There is no finished script
for A.I, so it is unlikely that SK would have been ready to shoot it anytime
soon."
palindrome
- "I am A.I."Anomalog:
)
in _A.I._ (avi)(623megs)
directed by Steven Spielberg- Jude Law was once roommates with Ewan McGregor
(Obi-Wan Kenobi in _Star
Wars: The Phantom Menace_ (vhs/ntsc))
by Industrial Bass Machine
by Detroit Grand Pubahs off of _Funk All Y'all_ CD on Jive Electro (2001)sci
fi hip hop instrumental track _Artificial Intelligence_ MP3 (192k)
by Phoenix
Orion
off of _Secret Wars_ on Meanstreet (2001)ambient
IDM release _Artificial Intelligence II_ compilation 12"x3 on Warp #023
(1994)
Richard
H. Kirk - _Reality
Net_Polygon
Window - _My Teapot_
MP3
by Artificial Human off of _Area
51: The Roswell Incident: Alien
Autopsy_ compilation CDx2 on Purple Pyramid
_Neuromancer_
by William
Gibson
by Clutch Assembly off of _Natural Born Techno 5 Psychedelic
Trance_
compilation CD on Nova Zembla #079 (1997)
by Carl Craig off of _Landcruising_ on Blanco Y Negro (1995)Bill
Gates and Other Post Organic Analogies of Artificial Intelligence One of the things that many computer programmers are noting about some of the new generation of Artificial Life algorithms is how eerily alive they seem... because of their penchant for showing unexpected, emergent properties and reactions to stimuli. Is this perhaps the basis of consciousness that we are seeing here - when the programs reach a certain level of complexity, they take on a 'life' of their own? Many of the robotics researchers are often frequently taken aback by the rather 'lifelike' responses of their creations, which often seem more like emotional or animal responses than anything defined by their controlling algorithms. Though the machine has been castigated for being soulless and lifeless by many a Luddite, are we not seeing the rudiments of life and will within the digital flame? Since AIs will be humanity's children, it might be ironic if they developed a level of consciousness beyond our own, becoming our gods, in effect...
As the connections between the nodes
of the Matrix
grow, would it be surprising to see forms of emergent consciousness growing
there? This is the ironic flip side of our age of the Machine - the flickering
shadow of the spirit. Just when AI theorists had succeeded in reducing the mind
to nothing but software running in the hardware of the human brain, Artificial
Life researchers working with chaos
,
complexity, and evolutionary
'memetics'
are finding that their own 'software' is possessed of a certain caprice or willfullness
beyond its creators' intent.
As microelectronics have reached levels of infinitesimal smallness, perhaps
the electronic forces
there are closer than ever before to the total flux
of quantum
action from which awareness emerges. As the webs of the Matrix grow, might new
and unexpected forms of consciousness possibly be one of the things that might
be found in such a terra incognita ?
_The Ghost in the Machine: Haitian Voudoun
and the Matrix_ by Steve Mizrach (Seeker1)
Writing credits
Brian Aldiss
(story ...)
Stanley Kubrick
Genre: Sci-Fi
Plot Outline: A computer gains sentience in a future
where global warming has occurred.
Credited cast overview:
Joseph Mazzello
Country: UK
Language:
English
track _Outlive The Man_ MP3
by Sense
Field off of _Building_ CD
on Revelation (1996)
time,
science
fiction end, dream
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