In Spike Jonze’s recent film Her, artificial intelligence in the form of operating systems begins to take on a consciousness of its own. But to see that slowly wiped away as we rely more and more on artificial intelligence is like something out of a sci-fi movie. What is man without his individual identity? We’re taught from a young age that what makes us great is our own personality, our own outlook on life, our own ambitions and our own characteristics. Like other students brought up during class discussion, the way Asimov depicts humans as slowly losing individuality until they become one large amorphous entity was disconcerting. Reading from Isaac Asimov’s “The Last Question” wasn’t the most predictable way to start off a class about culture and mass media, but stories of science fiction and the evolution of artificial intelligence gave way to themes of human consciousness and the individual self.
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