Artificial intelligence is defined as the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. Artificial intelligence has come a long way as our culture has developed. Many people believe that artificial intelligence is in a sense giving these computers sentience or making them alive. What most people don’t agree on is that Artificial Intelligence is what distinguishes AI’s from humans if they can think critically about situations and form their own opinions.
In the movie “The Final Moments of Karl Brant” we are shown the basic sense of how humans feel about sentient AI systems. Karl Brant a top researcher for a new experimental AI system downloads his memories into a device. Later after he is murdered his friend pulls up the memories he had “uploaded” and they create a sentient AI version of himself. Most people are greatly disturbed by the fact that AI could possibly become in a sense living and have a consciousness. In this movie the cop is deeply disturbed and rushes to pull the plug on the setinent being. This is how most people commonly react to change and constantly improving technology. Everyday Hollywood releases movies like terminator, and Robocop where artificial intelligences go haywire and takeover all of humanity. However, Most artificial intelligences are actually very intelligent and almost have a human like reasoning and logic. It is because of this sense of “sentinence” that most people feel uncomfortable about robots and the growing technological age