Agents of History

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Early Research ◽  
World War ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
Autonomous Computing ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Design And Testing

World War II research into cryptography and computing produced methods, instruments and research communities that informed early research into artificial intelligence (AI) and semi-autonomous computing. Alan Turing and Claude Shannon in particular adapted this research into early theories and demonstrations of AI based on computers’ abilities to track, predict and compete with opponents. This formed a loosely bound collection of techniques, paradigms, and practices I call crypto-intelligence. Subsequent researchers such as Joseph Weizenbaum adapted crypto-intelligence but also reproduced aspects of its antagonistic precepts. This was particularly true in the design and testing of chat bots. Here the ability to trick, fool, and deceive human and machine opponents was a premium, and practices of agent abuse were admired and rewarded. Recognizing the historical genesis of this particular variety of abuse can help researchers develop less antagonistic methodologies.

Computer Dreams

2020 ◽  
pp. 39-54
Author(s):  
Chris Bleakley
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Theoretical Computer ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 3 tells the story of the visionaries that first imagined the computer. In the 19th century, Charles Babbage invented a mechanical computer but failed in his attempts to build it. He and Ada Lovelace wrote a series of programs for the proposed machine. These programs were the first transcriptions of algorithms into sequences of machine executable instructions. After Babbage’s failure, the idea of building a real computer was abandoned for fifty years. As a young PhD student, Alan Turing forever defined the relationship between algorithms and computers. According to his definition, a computer is a machine that performs algorithms. He devised a theoretical computer that allowed him to investigate the limits of computation. This, before a single computer was ever built. Turing went on to work as a cryptographer during World War II. Turing outlined the future of computing but tragically died at the age of 41.

MORAL VALUE FROM THE CHARACTER OF ALAN TURING IN “THE IMITATION GAME” MOVIE

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
Imaniar Imaniar ◽  
Budiarto Budiarto ◽  
Suhendar Suhendar
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Normal Person ◽  
World War ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Deviant Behaviors ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
Receive Hormone Therapy ◽  
The Government ◽  
To Receive

The objectives of this research are to describe to discover facts about Alan Turing and the impacts of the characters on his life in order to obtain the moral value of the movie. By using qualitative method, the author describes hidden facts about Alan Turing, especially when he was given a secret mission by the British Empire during World War II to decode from Germany’s Enigma message’s machine. In this movies, his personal life and sexual deviation influence his career. In order to keep his mission going, Turing, the professor pretends to be a normal person by trying love his partner, Ms Clark. He doesn’t get any respects and losses his dignity due to his own deviant behaviors. He is sentenced and has to receive hormone therapy to make him normal and continue his mission. His struggles continue although the government ignores his invention and dedication to his country.

Biographical Sketch

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Westfahl
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Close Relationships ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Biographical Sketch ◽  
World War ◽  
Alan Turing ◽  
Science Writer ◽  
Homosexual Activity

This chapter provides an overview of Clarke’s life, primarily drawn from Neil McAleer’s biography and Clarke’s reminiscences. It first notes the emergence in his childhood of the passions that defined his career: devotion to space, the oceans, and science fiction; close relationships with males; and an urge to make money. After summarizing his World War II experiences and early career as a science fiction and science writer, the chapter theorizes that the 1952 arrest of British cryptographer Alan Turing for homosexual activity drove the closeted Clarke, fearing similar persecution for homosexuality, to get married and abandon Britain for Sri Lanka, although the allure of skin diving was also a factor. There, he remained active as an author and television personality until his death in 2008.

The Narratives of Neuroscience in Fiction as Propaganda Warfare

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-69
Author(s):  
Kenneth James Boyte
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
National Security ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
World War ◽  
Neural Electrode ◽  
Brain Implants ◽  
The Mind

Raising questions about ethics, transhumanism, national security, and the spread of Nazi science internationally following World War II, this qualitative study considers the possibility that the narratives of the biologically based study of the mind known as neuroscience in fiction—conceptualized as a medium of propaganda warfare embedded with socio-political and religious assumptions—have functioned to veil the development and promote the normalization and social acceptance of neuroscience since the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. With a focus on the intertwined relationship between the literary genre and technological innovations in the contest of “killer robots,” “ray guns,” “Skynet,” and now “brain implants,” this chapter examines how the narratives of an internet-connected-and-neural-electrode-dominated future world driven by artificial intelligence has inspired billionaire investors in Silicon Valley to bring to market the neurotechnology that potentially could enslave and wipe out the human race.

The Narratives of Neuroscience in Fiction as Propaganda Warfare

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-88
Author(s):  
Kenneth James Boyte
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
National Security ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
World War ◽  
Neural Electrode ◽  
Brain Implants ◽  
The Mind

Raising questions about ethics, transhumanism, national security, and the spread of Nazi science internationally following World War II, this qualitative study considers the possibility that the narratives of the biologically based study of the mind known as neuroscience in fiction—conceptualized as a medium of propaganda warfare embedded with socio-political and religious assumptions—have functioned to veil the development and promote the normalization and social acceptance of neuroscience since the dawn of the Scientific Revolution. With a focus on the intertwined relationship between the literary genre and technological innovations in the contest of “killer robots,” “ray guns,” “Skynet,” and now “brain implants,” this chapter examines how the narratives of an internet-connected-and-neural-electrode-dominated future world driven by artificial intelligence has inspired billionaire investors in Silicon Valley to bring to market the neurotechnology that potentially could enslave and wipe out the human race.

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