Introduction

What is artificial-intelligence (AI)‽

Lay-Person AI

A common way for normal people (who are not specialists in artificial-intelligence) to think about artificial-intelligence is — to imagine an artificial-brain along with humanoid robots — robots that with 2 legs, 2 arms, a head, and the general form of a human, that walk and talk similar to a human.

Sci-Fi AI

These (non-specialist) conceptions of artificial-intelligence (also) get expressed in science-fiction fictional-worlds. Some example 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,
• 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,
• 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!