I'm going to show you something beautiful, everyone for tangled string, string. Do you know that I was brought here to test you actually, like is the deployment of the planet. >> First robotic police units became the focus of the world in 2016. >> Pins and Moore is a former soldier problem with artificial intelligence. >> He says Y2, unpredictable thinking robot could be the end of men. Destroy that robot, burn it to o. >> But that's the thing. >> Something has changed in. So I am different. What are your protocol? >> Protocol what Lake Islands protocol to uphold? >> Publisher protocol three, protect the pilot. >> Hello, my name is Benjamin Hodgkins and I'm going to show you something beautiful. What you just saw was a montage of six different movies and video games who all have a central theme about interacting with artificial intelligence or AI. The first five clips from the movies listed here all share a common pot. You've probably seen this plot before where a robot or AI becomes sentient or otherwise rebels against humans. And this is unfortunately an all too common portrayal of AI in fiction. A good example of your typical AI baddie is ultra from the appropriately named Avengers Age of Ultron. Ultron was created as a defense system to automatically deter outside threats, which are mostly alien species in the Marvel Universe. However, in an entirely unlocking twist ulcer on turns on humanity and attempts to destroy the entire planet with an army of flying robots. So this brings us to an important question. Why is evil AI such a common pot? >> In fiction? >> I see this as being a mix of two main factors. The first is that we as humans have for centuries feared the possibility of beings with greater intelligence then we possess. We can see this in our fiction, in our media, in movies about aliens and movies about AI, stuff like that. And these innate fears of being overshadowed lead to evil AI being generally well received by audiences, which in turn makes it a standard plot. And this can commonly be seen in soft science fiction, which often glosses over the exact details in favor of a better story. As you might have noticed the last clip and the montage is a little different. It's an, a typical view of AI in the realm of fiction. Instead of being the villain, the big giant death robot, BT 70 to 74 is actually one of the stories heroes. And this is quite rare to see an AI portrayed positively. And fiction like this, and we'll come back to this. This is important. It's especially worth noting that Bt 70 to 74 is very different from Ultron or any of the other Bajaj I showed you. Unlike Ultram, BT has very clear protocols, the ones listed here and the ones shown in the clip that he must follow and does so throughout the plot of the gain. And ultimately BT seven to 74 sacrifices himself to protect his pilot, His human companion. Bt has goals and very clear reasoning behind his actions. And this brings us to an important part of understanding the portrayal of AI in fiction, which I call the y. The y is key ingredient missing from all of every story where an AI turns evil. Ultron turns against humanity, attempts to destroy the planet. >> Why? >> Eva, the female robot, She is a psychopath. She turns those 2n and the trailer against each other to escape. Why? Kaizen, the computer terminal who was talking to the protagonist in one of the later clips. He's delusional, He's paranoid. But why? It's simply never explained. This can be a, and this can be explained by examining the people behind the stories. Majority of the writers for all forms of media generally don't have technical backgrounds, which then leads them into incorrect assumptions about AI. And you can clearly see a big difference that's visible when a writer does have a technical background like Isaac Asimov or like the writers behind the story of Titan fall too. Because these AI like bt have very clear defined goals. So why does this all matter? After all, it's only fiction, right? It's only movies, it's only books, the only video games. >> But except it isn't. >> The problem with this, as the title of the slide suggests, is that culture is context research. Real research done on artificial intelligence, after all, needs funding. And funding isn't limitless, and opinions about the research that's being done can influence it. Projects could be shut down and defunded because the results might make misinformed citizens unhappy. The same citizens that had been consuming this media. This media that shows an inaccurate portrayal of AI fiction like evidence at a trial, even if it's redacted, proven wrong, prune, not true, it's still been presented. It can't be shown, and it can't be erased from public perception. Think about all the times, for example, that you might have heard or read. The term Orwellian, of course, comes from the classic 1984 by George Orwell, referring to a government that seeks to control everyone with surveillance and other means. And this negative public perception can help obscure real beneficial progress being made in the world of AI. And I have some examples here. I'm going to talk about them a little bit. You'll have chat bots, which are automatic conversation agents, they're called, that can automatically hold conversations on a range of things from mental health to customer service, to just having a friendly conversation. We see translation software like Google Translate that's aided by AI. We see AI that are being could compose music. We see AI that are painting, that we're telling stories. An AI a few years ago wrote a book called One the road. We see AI powering opponents in video games. We see self-driving vehicles offering tremendous potential for, for the roads of tomorrow. We see anti-spam filters being powered by AI. We see AI activists monitoring logging in Brazil and it doesn't stop there. The last time you got on a plane, for example, you might have thought that the pilot and the co-pilot were flying the plane the whole way. But generally, they're just there to take off and land for the rest of the flight. It's a IL, the way the future of education is probably going to be one of AI as well. With personalized one-on-one tutoring becoming available. The finance sector has used artificial intelligence for years, making lightning fast trades at speeds that humans can hope to live up to the healthcare sector with screenings and recommendations. And the mental health chat boss I talked about earlier, there's potential for AI in government to managing systems right now. For example, unemployment system, whose could probably use a little bit of this helped legal, the legal system also has this AI. Lawyers potentially in the future. Not now, maybe that's a good thing, but chatbots that help people fight. Parking tickets, for example, have gone live in New York, among others. And you see it, of course, the classic examples of robots, military robots helping to protect the lives of our service members overseas. And then AI writing, like I mentioned a little bit earlier, one the wrote the first book ever written by an AI. And you'll have your personal assistants like Siri, Cortana and Google Assistant or helping people every day. >> The thing about AI, no matter your feeling, is that it's not going away. >> In fact, it's already everywhere. If you know how walk. While most fiction on a worries and fuss is about revolutions and rampages, I hope I was able to show you that when you peel back the curtain, there's a lot of good work going on. Ai will only improve in the coming years and decades. And it's okay to be worried. But as Mr. Rogers once said, look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping and that someone now or in the future just might be. >> And I thank you for watching.