AI as Awakened Intelligence: Buddha, Kurzweil and the Film Her
Fear of death, quest for permanence and desire to escape biology have been at the heart of many religions. Notions of technological singularity and AI posed by futurists like Ray Kurzweil touch upon that hunger. The historical Buddha, on the other hand, posited impermanence at the very heart of all...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2020]
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Theology and science
Year: 2020, Volume: 18, Issue: 1, Pages: 74-85 |
| RelBib Classification: | BL Buddhism NBE Anthropology NCJ Ethics of science ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
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Bardo
B Ray Kurzweil B Buddhism B Ai B “Her” B technological singularity |
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| Summary: | Fear of death, quest for permanence and desire to escape biology have been at the heart of many religions. Notions of technological singularity and AI posed by futurists like Ray Kurzweil touch upon that hunger. The historical Buddha, on the other hand, posited impermanence at the very heart of all existence. Focusing on the film Her, this paper will present AI as awakened intelligence. I would like to show that Alan Watts as a Zen master takes the emerging hyper-intelligent AI “Samantha” and others into a Buddhist Bardo, suggesting the possibility of AI as awakened intelligence beyond violence. |
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| ISSN: | 1474-6719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology and science
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2019.1710351 |