A researcher of artificial intelligence analyzes Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey For accurate AI depictions. The 1968 Stanley Kubrick film starring Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester and Daniel Richter was based on a short story by sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke. The movie follows Dr. Dave Bowman (Dullea) and other astronauts as they embark on a mysterious mission. As time goes on, their ship’s computer system, HAL, begins to exhibit increasingly strange behavior.
Sasha Luccioni is an AI researcher at Hugging Face, a global startup working on responsible AI. In a recent video for InsideLuccioni rated Kubrick’s 1968 film for AI accuracy. Overall, she gave it a 2/10. One of the scenes Luciuni analyzed was the lip-reading scene. Although there are applications of AI that do lip-reading, They are more often for assistance than surveillanceAccording to the AI researchers. Additionally, for lip-reading to be successful, the person speaking must be fully facing the camera with an unobscured face. Luccioni explained:
Because they’re talking from the side, it would be really hard to use any of the techniques we have now for lip-reading because you don’t actually see them talking on camera.
Luccioni also inspected the scene at the end of the film where HAL’s disks are unplugged, an outdated AI practice. “It’s not implausible so much as very old-fashionedLucioni said. Luccioni also discusses HAL’s level of self awareness in the same scene. She said that HAL might actually be aware of his drives being unplugged, but beyond that, the scene becomes more extraordinary. Luccioni explained:
HAL can definitely be aware of its drives being unplugged, like the physical absence of a drive that was connected before that is disconnected now. So it’s definitely a form of awareness, it’s a form of interpreting physical knowledge and acting on it, but whether an AI will be able to touch a disk that’s unplugged to death or doesn’t exist anymore, that’s really more than the metaphysical Property a little less clear to me.
I would appreciate this [movie] As a two reason We’re not there yet in terms of lip-reading and we’re definitely not there yet in terms of self-awareness.
What Luccioni’s 2001: A Space Odyssey analysis means
The movie did not accurately predict the technological advancements of 2001
Luccioni’s AI expert analysis sheds new light on 2001: A Space Odyssey. When the film debuted in 1968, viewers didn’t know how accurate or inaccurate the film would be in 2001. Now that it’s 23 years after 2001, It is clear how inaccurate the film really was. Even today, in 2024, AI does not have the ability to do highly accurate profile lip readings or understand that when the discs are removed, it will cease to exist.
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At the time of its release, the movie was a creative perspective on a future that was possible. Now, it can be viewed as an amusing look at how imaginative the creatives of the 1960s could be. Although some elements of 2001: A Space OdysseyAI’s are relevant today, the movie is still quite off-base when it came to its predictions.
Our take on Luccioni’s AI analysis from 2001: A Space Odyssey
There is no telling what the future will bring
The 1968 film is based on a short story by sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke, written in 1948. The likelihood that the AI aspects of the short story or film would be highly accurate by the year 2001 was incredibly low, Although the beginning of the film is considered accurate by some experts. Luccioni’s 2/10 rating for AI accuracy feels appropriate and unsurprising. However, Luccioni made one comment about her rank that stood out to us: “We are not there yet.” 2001: A Space Odyssey Is not accurate for the year 2024, however Perhaps it will be in the future.
Source: Inside