Science fiction has a long tradition of pitting artificial intelligence against humanity in a struggle for dominance. Ray Kurzweil, a noted futurist and inventor, envisions a more co-operative future.

The camera eye of HAL 9000, the fictional artificial intelligence computer from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, is what often comes to mind when people think of sentient machines.

Artificial intelligence is going full circle — from fiction to science, and back again by Alan Boyle on September 4, 2024 at 9:29 am ...

The current cultural fascination and frustration with artificial intelligence is nothing new. As far back as the 1921 Czech play R.U.R. — the workers-rights story that first coined the term ...