A.I.

An interesting thing to think about (especially with movies like Ex Machina and The Machine being release relatively recently) is artificial intelligence.

I don't really know where to start. I guess the idea had the most profound impact on me when taking in anime like Ghost in the Shell and AniMatrix (which was based on a movie series that WAS heavily influenced by manga and anime). I started to think about young A.I., as in the early days of its existence before human beings were used to it, then the struggle it would have to go through for equality. We as flesh and blood humans beings don't even recognize many of our own ilk as equal based on gender, orientation and skin color, so how would we react to something so foreign trying to ask for their right to vote or have a say in how the world works.

Honestly, my mind is drifting into bigger things while I'm trying to write this, such as humans viewing A.I. as the new kid on the block that haven't earned the right to have a say - when/if we join a pre-established galactic senate, we (as a race) will be viewed the same way. We'd react kicking and screaming like the spoiled children we are, when we'd be subjugating our own world population in the same manner.

Back to point, people (on the whole) are flawed creatures, and creating a system that can divide logic and emotion to make a swift, decisive action - would ultimately lead to human beings being targeted as a problem. Maybe that's after hundreds of years of conflict, maybe a few decades, evolution is weird like that and I, for one, wouldn't be able to fully understand or predict what evolution in an unorganic creature would be like, especially since I know pretty much jack shit about how it works now with organic life.

But then that brings in more interesting thoughts on co-existence, or if there would be any usefulness to humans at all. And would be utterly destroyed or harvested? Maybe even ran off world, or left to the dying world that we've ruined with battle and a greedy existence. All of these ideas have been ran with in some form or another through fiction, and they're all (mostly) amazing as they explore a good chunk of what-if scenarios. I'm only curious about which would be the reality.

Backtracking a bit, though, what I find highly intriguing is the infancy of A.I. after it's self-aware. Would it at first want to be like us or would it immediately recognize our potential threat? And what if, eventually, when A.I. developed emotion and learned to love - how would it procreate? Would that be a need? And if two A.I. in a loving relationship wanted to have a child (or whatever their version of creating life would be) would they build it a body, or would it be a software that learned and grew? What would the gestation period be before it was considered an adult A.I.? How long (if they would) would they model their lives after humans? Would they build tiny robot bodies to house their minds and upgrade and grow the form until it was an average, but unique model?

Okay... okay... I'm asking a lot of questions that only theory can answer, and I've gotten my brain all worked up on science-fiction. But I'm curious and wildly interested to see what would happen. That's the fun of writing and thinking and developing, there's no particular 'wrong' and nothing but possibilities laid out in the vast outstretching of imagination. This is one of the subjects I like to have running in my mind's background, along with Mad Maxian stories and wasteland worlds. I won't get started on those right now, but just know that it's likely an imminent topic of rant.