Artificial Intelligence in Movies: Exploring Weak AI and Strong AI

1. Artificial Intelligence: Jacob O’Quinn Josh Hilton Diane Pozefsky COMP 380 November 27, 2006

2. 2048 2205 2035 Movies portray artificial intelligence as an issue that is far off in the future. What is A.I.? When asked what comes to mind when someone hears the words “Artificial Intelligence,” 65% of people wrote “the movie.”

3. Artificial Intelligence: Is the sector of computer science that is devoted to developing software programs and machines that appear to have intelligence and mimic human behavior.

4. Artificial Intelligence Weak AI Strong AI • Programs that perform one specific problem or function. • Has appearance of intelligence, but is not able to address a problem outside of its programmed scope. • An artificial intelligence that is not limited to its programmed constraints. • Is capable of thinking for itself and is aware of itself. • Programmed to handle a broader range of functions, and is designed to handle more thought-intensive jobs.

5. Determining Strong A.I. • Turing Test – • Test developed by Professor Alan Turing in 1950 to try and determine whether or not machines could actually think. • Human engages into a conversation both with a human and a machine, and if the machine is able to fool 30% of the humans it passes as strong A.I. • Loebner competition • Awareness Test – • Attempts to answer the question of whether or not the A.I. is aware of itself and has self preservation.

6. UNC Turing Test 2006 Ask each subject a series of questions to try and determine which one is the human, and which is artificial intelligence. At the end of the questioning, the class will vote to determine which subject is which.

7. Examples of Weak AI Robotic Mopping Devices (Scooba) Robotic Vacuum Cleaners (Roomba) Virtual Chess Programs & Video Games

8. Benefits of Weak AI • Weak A.I. is extremely efficient at performing repetitive tasks especially in assembly and manufacturing jobs. The widespread usage of Weak A.I. would increase overall productivity. • Increasing productivity will stimulate economic growth, raising standards of living and improving overall quality of life. • With Weak A.I. performing the mundane jobs, people could focus on jobs they truly wanted to do.

9. Unemployment • Weak A.I. has the potential to replace millions of unskilled and skilled workers. • Over 50 percent of the jobs in the United States could be threatened by robotic replacement. • Despite the potential of creating new jobs, job creation does not occur instantaneously. • The workers at risk for robotic replacement are primarily unskilled, undereducated individuals.

10. Technology & Unemployment Throughout history, technology has always made some jobs obsolete, but new job markets will appear to reemploy those who lose their job. Before the advent of the washing machine, some people made their livings by washing people’s clothing. In response to this technology, new job markets opened up such as dry cleaners, creating jobs for those replaced by the usage of washing machines.

11. Potential Robotic Replacement AICooking Robot At a price tag of $253,000, “is able to fry, bake, boil, and steam to perfection” thousands of authentic Chinese recipes!

12. Robotic Replacement (Continued) Ever-1 At a height of 1.6 meters, EveR-1 is able to understand over 400 words and from a distance, “could be confused with a real, flesh and blood human”

13. Robotic Replacement (Continued) Ms Saya The first robotic receptionist, who in her canary yellow business suit is able to answer a variety of questions from visitors using advanced voice recognition software and a memory bank containing over 700 verbal responses

14. 5% 12% 44% Manufacturing Secretary Security Guard 7% 23% 95% Vacuum Cook Baby-sit Migration towards Thought-Intensive Jobs Thought-IntensiveJobs Simple Tasks

15. PaPeRo • At the 2005 World Expo in Nagoya, Japan, attendees were given the option to leave their children in the care of the first robotic babysitter named “PaPeRo.” • Face recognition software • Embedded cell phone Although PaPeRo could be programmed to notify parents in the event of an accident, the robot would be inefficient at being able to handle every situation a babysitter would be exposed to.

16. Robotic Security Guards A Japanese company is currently testing a team of security robots armed with paintball guns to thwart off intruders onto the facility. With the inability to analyze and evaluate every person the security robot comes into contact, the probability of the robot injuring an innocent person will always be present.

17. Case Study You arrive at the scene of a bad car accident. Two people are trapped in a car submerged in water, one is a man in his mid thirties, the other is a young girl around the age of twelve. You have time to save one person, who would you save?

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19. Response This clip illustrates the limitations of Artificial Intelligence, especially when put into positions that require human judgment. Human thought and intuition cannot be replicated using code simply because every situation that a robot encounters is too different to have general guidelines determine its response. Humans tend to save the weaker ones first in hopes that stronger will be able to save themselves.

21. Famous Robots Furby Rosie from the Jetsons Cast of Robots Bender Optimus Prime Sonny C3-P0 & R2-D2

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