Artificial Intelligence in Science Fiction

SCIENCE FICTION ORIGINS

Film and television

War Games- Joshua
Hal 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Based on a novel by Arthur C. Clarke, 2001 is the kind of film that some people will love, and others will hate. There are many different interpretations of this movie - many of them religious - and Kubrick himself has avoided answering questions just to keep the confusion going. One of the most famous "movie computers", HAL, plays a major role in this film, and his interactions with his operator, Dave Bowman, have been parodied many times. The footage of the moon was created more than a year before Neil Armstrong landed there - and Kubrick had it exactly right. All that is up for debate is what it all means...
Tron- Master Control Program

Literature

Fredrick Pohl

** Mars Plus
Alfred Bester

** Computer Connection--A group of immortals, while creating another of their kind, unwit- tingly also create a man-machine symbiosis that soon threatens the existence of humankind.

** Golem 100--Eight women in a search for fun and excitement tap the unconscious id of the megacity, producing a demon of startling power and mis- chief.
Algis Budrys

** Michaelmas--An electronic genius disguised as a news-reporter controls the run- ning of the world with the help of his artificially intelligent computer.
Samuel Delany

** Babel 17--The language of an invading civilization is found to be based upon the concepts of AI computer languages and memes.
Ian McDonald

** Out on Blue Six--Personal happiness factors are constantly monitored in an attempt to maintain a constant level of emotional sustainability within a walled-off mega city. Self-intelligent computers act behind the scenes as they attempt to calculate whether humanity has regained the ability to rule itself.

Modern representations