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Episode 159: I, Android

Waypoint Radio

VICE

Leisure, Video Game Development, Television, Rewatch, Replay, Tv & Film, Video Games, Games, Movies, Video Game Culture

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In a sci-fi extravaganza, Austin, Rob, and Danielle discuss a host of questions around androids, AI, robots, and other forms of intelligence. We talk games, movies, and novels that tackle these with grace (and those that do it less so) and dip into some good, heavy question bucket offerings.



Discussed: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Neuromancer, Person of Interest, Moon, Destiny 2, Player of Games (novel), Mass Effect, Asimov's Foundation series, Ascentury (playable at ascentury.net), Soma (with spoilers!)Mass Effect 3 ending (spoilers for the series!), Farscape, Babylon 5, Stellaris, works of China Mieville 



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With the release of a major game taking another look at the person

0:54.6

who had machines with human level intelligence and reasoning,

0:58.1

I wanted to bring up and get your opinions on part of these narratives

1:02.0

that often frustrates me.

1:03.6

From AI to Westworld, the story of how and when artificial intelligence

1:07.1

could be regarded as a form of life on par with humanity,

1:10.0

while the rights that we granted is so often framed around robots

1:13.2

that are almost or entirely indistinguishable from real human beings,

1:17.2

and in fact are often idealized visions of the human form.

1:20.4

There's an robot and Detroit become human

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