Science fiction literature as a prediction of human’s communication with artificial intelligence


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Science fiction literature simulates our reality in a specific way. It also provides opportunities to predict not only the development of technologies, particularly the artificial intelligence, but also the modes of the human’s communication with these technologies, that are resented in the written works via anthropomorphic images. In this article there have been analyzed the organizational interaction modes between a human being and artificial intelligence within the scope of science fiction as exemplified by the works of Ph. Dick, A. Azimov, D. Adams, A. Clarke and W. Gibson. It has been pointed out that the authors conceptualize the artificial intelligence via three methods: comparison to a human being, creating the images of supercomputers and super-mind. The authorial communication models oriented on the interaction with artificial intelligence are focused on the development of the human inner world, the search of the answers on the key “being” questions. Interaction with the “other”, non-human consciousness collides with the technological limits and the destruction of the subject-object communication sphere. The analysis of the authorial communication models oriented on the interaction with artificial intelligence has shown that the basic problems of such communication is the impossibility of creating the dialogue-like relations and understanding of the “other” as the main communicative efficiency norm. The artificial intelligence, becoming the communication subject, continues to be perceived by the characters of the literature work as am object. The above-mentioned situation in the end leads to destruction of dialogical communication. True communication is possible under circumstances, when a human being understands technological restraints of artificial intelligence and he / she is ready to enrich it proactively with sense within the context of functional objectives solutions.

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Larisa Tyutelova

Samara National Research University

Author for correspondence.
Email: largenn@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1378-2676
https://ssau.ru/staff/519466-tyutelova-larisa-gennadevna

Dr. philol. habil., Associate Professor

Russian Federation, 34, Moskovskoye Shosse (St.), Samara, 443086, Russian Federation

Valeria N. Lisovitskaya

Samara National Research University

Email: lisovitskaya.v@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5438-6197

Postgraduate Student of the Russian and Foreign Literature and Public Relations Department

Russian Federation, 34, Moskovskoe Shosse (St.), Samara, 443086, Russian Federation

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