Holding a black mirror up to artificial intelligence
Monday, Jul 23, 2018, 06:45 AM | Source: Pursuit
Niels Wouters, Profesor Frank Vetere
In 2002, the sci-fi thriller Minority Report gave us a fictionalised glimpse of life in 2054. Initially, the movie evokes a perfect utopian society where artificial intelligence (AI) is blended with surveillance technology for the wellbeing of humanity.
The AI supposedly prevents crime using the predictions from three precogs – these psychics visualise murders before they happen and police act on the information.
