AI Narrative: A History (BrainStorm Examples)
When applying AI narrative in a project, it seems important to first look at the narrative of AI narrative. That is to say, the historical context through which AI Narrative is viewed as this could inform how it is used in practical terms.
What is AI? Where did it originate? Has the description evolved ? How is AI used to form narrative in media ? How is it used to form the media through narrative ?
I’m going to look at this pretty broadly and identify some examples that seem important to me (which are by no means exhaustive.. and may even seem off topic).
Automata
https://www.stolenhistory.org/threads/the-draughtsman-writer-automaton-by-henri-maillardet.317/
Animation
Film
Uncanny Valley
Cyborg
And the following article in Medium.
https://medium.com/predict/design-manifesto-goodbye-human-hello-alien-f9d607b65e00
The Turin Test
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
Cybernetic (Systems Control)
Cybernetics or Communication and Control in Animals & The Machine ©️ Norbert Weiner
Full copy of the original Text is available here https://archive.org/details/CyberneticsOrCommunicationAndControlInTheAnimalAndTheMachineNorbertWiener/page/n5/mode/2up
2nd Order Cybernetics
Quantum Mechanics : Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, two slits experiments and the Wave/Particle Collapse.
Policing
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2ICJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA410&lpg=PA410&dq=cybernetics+and+policing&source=bl&ots=cfBQq000ue&sig=ACfU3U0jtKxguDtQuWm0gE490PswqF2yxQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio9qv5ptbpAhV8SBUIHUVJAjUQ6AEwCnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=cybernetics%20and%20policing&f=false
Covid - 19 Societal Control - Policing by Consent.
Films
In the same way that typing google into a google breaks the internet (Joke) typing Netflix AI into google to search all films representing AI on Netflix leads to Netflix use of AI (well it amused me..)
I recently watched 2036 Origin Unknown which took a poignant look at humanity and AI.
And it reminded me of HAL 9000.
Games
The Standard News Article
https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/bulletproof-ai-game-charismaai-guy-gadney-interview-a4406041.html
Some of these examples are pretty negative and it’s not my intention to cast a negative light on AI, I’m just trying to understand the narrative that surrounds AI and try to understand it better.
References (TBC)
http://lcfi.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/AI_Narratives_Report.pdf
What is AI? Where did it originate? Has the description evolved ? How is AI used to form narrative in media ? How is it used to form the media through narrative ?
I’m going to look at this pretty broadly and identify some examples that seem important to me (which are by no means exhaustive.. and may even seem off topic).
Automata
https://www.stolenhistory.org/threads/the-draughtsman-writer-automaton-by-henri-maillardet.317/
Animation
In Absentia ©️ Brothers Quay
Automatic Writing ©️William Kentridge
Wall-e ©️ Disney
Film
Short Circuit ©️ TriStar Pictures (1986)
Uncanny Valley
Polar Express ©️ Warner Bros Pictures
Cyborg
A Cyborg Manifesto ©️ Donna Harraway
Full Text Available Here
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_----_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_....pdfAnd the following article in Medium.
https://medium.com/predict/design-manifesto-goodbye-human-hello-alien-f9d607b65e00
The Turin Test
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
Cybernetic (Systems Control)
Cybernetics or Communication and Control in Animals & The Machine ©️ Norbert Weiner
Full copy of the original Text is available here https://archive.org/details/CyberneticsOrCommunicationAndControlInTheAnimalAndTheMachineNorbertWiener/page/n5/mode/2up
2nd Order Cybernetics
Quantum Mechanics : Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, two slits experiments and the Wave/Particle Collapse.
©️The information Philosopher
The Double Bind ©️ Gregory Bateson
(Narrative Designers should never place a player in a double bind!)
Policing
The Sage Handbook of Global Policing
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2ICJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA410&lpg=PA410&dq=cybernetics+and+policing&source=bl&ots=cfBQq000ue&sig=ACfU3U0jtKxguDtQuWm0gE490PswqF2yxQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwio9qv5ptbpAhV8SBUIHUVJAjUQ6AEwCnoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=cybernetics%20and%20policing&f=false
Covid - 19 Societal Control - Policing by Consent.
Films
In the same way that typing google into a google breaks the internet (Joke) typing Netflix AI into google to search all films representing AI on Netflix leads to Netflix use of AI (well it amused me..)
I recently watched 2036 Origin Unknown which took a poignant look at humanity and AI.
And it reminded me of HAL 9000.
2001: A Space Odyssey ©️ Stanley Kubrick
Games
IBM Deep Blue Chess Game (1997)
©️ Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images
(For Academic Purposes Only)
Alpha Zero ©️ Google Deep Mind
A.I assisted narrative
The Standard News Article
https://www.standard.co.uk/tech/bulletproof-ai-game-charismaai-guy-gadney-interview-a4406041.html
Some of these examples are pretty negative and it’s not my intention to cast a negative light on AI, I’m just trying to understand the narrative that surrounds AI and try to understand it better.
References (TBC)
http://lcfi.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/AI_Narratives_Report.pdf
