Echoes of myth and magic in the language of Artificial Intelligence
Echoes of myth and magic in the language of Artificial Intelligence
复制标题
人工智能语言中的神话与魔法的回响
作者：
Roberto Musa Giuliano
与其他技术领域相比，人工智能的研究和进步在更大程度上总是与虚构联系在一起。它的语言与其他形式的文化叙事，如童话，神话和宗教强烈呼应。在这篇文章中，我们提出了各种例子，说明这些类比不仅指导了社区外评论员对人工智能企业的解读，还启发了人工智能研究人员本身。由于他们的影响，我们特别注意宗教语言和当代呈现比人类更大的智能的潜在出现的方式之间的相似性。然后，我们继续讨论小说，尤其是科幻小说，在历史上扮演的角色，并且仍然通过影响研究人员和公众，在我们共同感知的概率空间中改变不同场景的权重，在人工智能的讨论中发挥作用。我们总结认为，围绕人工智能研究的传说，无论是古代还是现代，都指向了祖先和共同的人类动机，这些动机推动了研究人员的追求，并吸引了整个人类。人工智能与更广泛的文化相遇的这些叙事纠缠点应该有助于放大我们参与讨论这项技术的潜在目的地的呼吁。
To a greater extent than in other technical domains, research and progress in Artificial Intelligence has always been entwined with the fictional. Its language echoes strongly with other forms of cultural narratives, such as fairytales, myth and religion. In this essay we present varied examples that illustrate how these analogies have guided not only readings of the AI enterprise by commentators outside the community but also inspired AI researchers themselves. Owing to their influence, we pay particular attention to the similarities between religious language and the way in which the potential advent of greater than human intelligence is presented contemporarily. We then move on to the role that fiction, science fiction most of all, has historically played and is still playing in the discussion of AI by influencing researchers and the public, shifting the weights of different scenarios in our collectively perceived probability space. We sum up by arguing that the lore surrounding AI research, ancient and modern, points to the ancestral and shared human motivations that drive researchers in their pursuit and fascinate humanity at large. These points of narrative entanglement where AI meets the wider culture should serve to amplify the call to engage ourselves with the discussion of the potential destination of this technology.