Artificial Intelligence in the Science Fiction Genre

We want to read and watch all of these.

The great sci-fi movies are the ones that depict AI so believable that it's actually a little scary.

The literature of science fiction and fantasy is extensive and includes many subgenres which includes artificial intelligence as a recurrent theme in science fiction. As a subgenre of science fiction, the fiction of artificial intelligence (AI) also applies the sub-themes of utopian and dystopian themes to its plots.

Science fiction provides a valuable resource from which the public view of AI can be assessed.

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Science fiction has offered many visions of a computer-controlled future, and the future doesn’t look good for humanity.

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Robots work in warehouses, explore Mars, assist police, clean floors, and serve as companions for kids and adults alike. But before Furbies there was Frankenstein, before Roombas there was R.U.R., and before androids we had Asimov.

From tin-can robots to sophisticated, sentient virtual environments, artificial intelligence (AI) is a dominant theme in science fiction. With real-world advances in machine learning and deep learning, the gap between fact and fiction is narrowing.

What will robots really be like when they finally achieve a human level of intelligence and autonomy? No one knows for sure, but we've put together a list of books that will challenge and disturb your preconceptions about what robots might become.

Which sub-genre of sci-fi can claim both the literary greats, the grandmasters of science fiction, like Isaac Asimov, Orson Scott Card, and the recently departed Iain M. Banks and the gritty, depths of fiction shown in the dirty sex and drugs and rock'n'roll of Robert Heinlein, William Gibson, and Neal Stephenson?

Science fiction that provides some of the best cautionary tales about life after the singularity - maybe we should all be worried.

A look at the movies and novels that inform discussions of real-life artificial intelligence and weapons.

Are real robots ever going to be as clever and as evil as they are portrayed in films?