Do we see AI as Frankenstein Monster?
Tharindra Galahena
Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel published in the 1818, which tells a
tragic story about a scientist called Victor Frankenstein and a creature
he created who tries to get revenge from his maker. When reading that
story we can see that the monster wasn’t actually evil in the beginning.
But later he became an evil destructive force, mainly because of the
fear and rejection of the people.
In this article I try to find
the same or similar issues regarding the creation of intelligence or
consciousness machines (or otherwise AI). The question I ask is will
humans ever accept AI as sentient beings (or maybe conscious beings) and
stop treating them as tools or property when machines have actually
become advanced enough. The difference between the Frankenstein monster
and machines (when I’m using the machines in this article I mean
intelligence and advance enough machines) is that unlike machines people
reject monster because of the fear. Regarding machines it is more like
seeing them as objects which are unequal and lesser than living beings
(some also have a fear too I guess). I’m not telling that AI will become
destructive or going to talk much about the technical reasons for AI to
become destructive. I’ll rather be talking about the human attitude
towards machines, how it came to be and how it will be in the future.
complete article at, http://tharindra-galahena.tumblr.com/post/98450988126/do-we-see-ai-as-frankenstein-monster
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