Sci-Fi Artificial Intelligence

(Artificial Intelligence)

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A common way for normal people (who are not specialists in artificial-intelligence) to imagine artificial-intelligence is to imagine an android — a robot that looks like and behaves like a human.

Although androids are definitely a type of artificial-intelligence — in reality artificial-intelligence is broader than, and even includes things that are much much much simpler than, androids.

But this (non-specialist) lay-person concept of artificial-intelligence as an android pervasive. In fact, it is so pervasive that it (also) get expressed in science-fiction fictional-worlds. Some examples of this includes:

  • Adam Link from I, Robot,
  • Alpha 5 from Power Rangers,
  • Astro Boy (also known as Mighty Atom) from the fictional-world of the same name — Astro Boy,
  • the B.A.T.s from G.I. Joe,
  • B.O.B. from The Black Hole,
  • Busking from Tobot (변신자동차 또봇),
  • C-3PO from Star Wars,
  • Cosmos from Transformers,
  • the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica,
  • Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation,
  • B-9 from Lost in Space,
  • Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still,
  • HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey,
  • Johnny 5 from Short Circuit,
  • K-2SO from Star Wars,
  • Maximillian from The Black Hole,
  • Metalhead from Teenager Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT),
  • R2-D2 from Star Wars,
  • Ravage from Transformers,
  • the Replicators from Stargate SG-1,
  • the various robots from The Rocket City (شهر موشکی)
  • Rosey from The Jetsons,
  • Soundwave from Transformers,
  • Swerve from Transformers,
  • Tik-Tok from Oz,
  • The Doctor from Star Trek: Voyager,
  • The Dummy from A Clever Dummy,
  • Twiki from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,
  • Ultron from Marvel Comics,
  • V.I.N.CENT from The Black Hole,
  • and many many many others.

There are large number of these types of conceptions of artificial-intelligence in science-fiction fictional-worlds! (We have only listed a very small number of them.)

This fascination with robots and androids goes way beyond sci-fi. Humans have been fascinated with robots for a very very long time!