The thing is: AI that isn't like people is very boring and depressing, so it doesn't make for good stories or particular insights. I'm not sure it's the job of stories to be like you finish a three hour movie and the moral is "hey AI is kinda underwhelming and lame".
Not sure I agree, today's AI are too simply to make that interesting, but I think sci-fi featuring AI that's advanced enough to imitate sentience, while not actually having sentience, could make for stories that are both entertaining and poignant
It's not interesting as a person because it isn't a person. But it could be for example a plot point that AI is being used by villains to monitor people and that's an interesting setup for a story about AI
The thing is: AI that isn't like people is very boring and depressing, so it doesn't make for good stories or particular insights. I'm not sure it's the job of stories to be like you finish a three hour movie and the moral is "hey AI is kinda underwhelming and lame".
Not sure I agree, today's AI are too simply to make that interesting, but I think sci-fi featuring AI that's advanced enough to imitate sentience, while not actually having sentience, could make for stories that are both entertaining and poignant
That's a fair point, you might be right. I could imagine dystopian sci-fi having it as a some kind of plot point.
It's not interesting as a person because it isn't a person. But it could be for example a plot point that AI is being used by villains to monitor people and that's an interesting setup for a story about AI