Few things have dominated both public and specialized discourses as much as AI. Stories of promise and peril are on the front pages of the mass media and the trade presses in virtually every field, from finance to the sciences. In this film series, we'll explore a smattering of stories we tell ourselves about our AI futures, and ask what these stories reveal about ourselves.
This series brings together indie experiments, documentaries, and blockbusters to trace how film grapples with algorithms, automation, data, and the dream of “thinking” machines.
iHuman is a documentary about artificial intelligence, social control and power. The film shows how this technology is changing our lives, our society and our future. Such experts as Ilya Sutskever and Jürgen Schmidhuber give interviews about AI and how it is developed and implemented. It also features people working in the field like Max Tegmark, Kara Swisher, Michal Kosinski, Stuart Russell, Ben Wizner, Hao Li, Ben Goertzel and Philip Alston. The documentary features its own character representing AI that develops through the film. This character has an abstract VFX form done by Theodor Groeneboom. The constant surveillance through phones, internet, systems in society and through surveillance cameras is discussed as a topic crucial for development of AI. The question is posed, if we already are governed by algorithms that are created by big tech corporations, governments and the military industry. It mentions Palantir Technologies and Cambridge Analytica.
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