High Functioning FleshInspired by various science fiction works and the ever-growing presence of artificial intelligence in the creative world, this piece explores what real artificial intelligence would look like in a futuristic setting. Not an algorithm that can repeat a mockery of what is fed to it, but a thinking, feeling machine. These “people” would possess all the same cognitive features of an organic human. Although they may be considered living creatures too -- wires for veins, a battery for a heart, and computer algorithms in place of a brain. Perhaps all is accounted for, besides the soul. |