Final Project Proposal:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a concept that is almost as old as science-fiction itself, and our fascination with AI has only increased since its first forays into popular culture. Movies such as I, Robot and Blade Runner have shifted our attention from a mere possibility to a real threat to our reality. As a society, however, it remains to be seen if our issue with Singularity or AI or even Cognitive Robots is a matter of uncanniness. Will our asinine fascination with propelling our technologies towards these different concepts come to an abrupt stop when we are face to face with a thinking machine? Have we, in fact, already come face to face with such a machine? When do concepts such as Singularity, AI, and Cognitive Robots become too uncanny? Do these concepts expose the mechanics of human thought, or can the mechanics of human thought be brought to bear on modern technological developments? In our project, we wish to not only present these issues to the class, but to also decipher and expand upon the phrase "digital human" in an attempt to come to terms with our new reality--a reality, simultaneously liberating, alluring, and terrifying, in which thought is not by definition the exclusive domain of the homo sapien.
Tentative reading list:
Improving Cognition in Computers (US News)
New Cognitive Robotics Lab Tests Theories of Human Thought (Science Daily)
The Singularity: Humanity's Last Invention? (NPR)
Response to The Singularity: Humanity's Last Invention
I, Algorithm (New Scientist)
A Manifesto for Cyborgs (Donna Haraway)
By: Amelie Daigle, Maria Pinheiro, Jeffery Muir, and Holly Combs
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