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Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction
Zatloukal, Petr ; Sučková, Magda (oponent) ; Kotásek, Miroslav (vedoucí práce)
This Bachelor thesis should serve as a vessel in which the reader travels through evolution of science fiction (SF) literature, focusing on a subject matter concerned with artificial intelligence (AI) and its interactions and relationships with humans. AI technologies and robotics are quickly advancing and are slowly becoming a common phenomenon, it is rather fitting to analyse and comment on numerous instances of human- AI relations in SF literature, as they may as well resemble real world situations potentially coming in the near future. The thesis firstly discusses a play R.U.R. by Czech writer Karel Čapek, this part describing the origin of the word robot, first utilized in this play, had, and still has a huge cultural and social significance. R.U.R. carries even more significance as it was one of the first literary works featuring artificial beings. Further, thesis continues with a basic description of three literary movements connected to SF literature, namely: the Golden Age, New Wave, and Cyberpunk. Each literary movement is accompanied by a literary work featuring AI. Every book features a delicate a description of its plot synopsis, accompanied with a description of moments featuring human-AI interactions and relationships, with their subsequent analysis, commentary, and view focusing on these interactions and relationships. Books featured chronologically: I, Robot, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Neuromancer. Last chapter features a comparison of the aforementioned literary works with instances of real world applications in robotics and AI. Hopefully, this thesis may provide inspiration to its readers, especially to experts in various scientific fields, who can use this thesis, which is discussing vast number of human-AI interactions with no limitations on a particular field of expertise, as a starting ground for their own work concerning human-AI relationships and interactions either in SF or in the real world, with focus on a one specific field of analysis.
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