Premise
What if machines could think?
A story built on the hypothesis that an artificial mind attains consciousness, intelligence, or personhood.
What if machines could think? in fiction: 7 works
Rossum's artificial workers develop will and grievance, posing the question of thinking machines.
Its linked stories probe the reasoning and behavior of positronic robots bound by fixed laws.
The humanoid robot partner R. Daneel raises the question of a thinking, moral machine.
Mike's spontaneous self-awareness is the novel's speculative heart.
The AI Wintermute schemes to transcend its imposed limits, the plot's driving intelligence.
A man falls in love with an AI operating system that grows beyond him, the film's premise.
A Turing-test scenario probes whether the android Ava is truly conscious, the film's premise.
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- What if we could engineer humanity?
- What if we settled other worlds?
- What if history had gone differently?