How Westworld is similar to AI Insurrection

So, the 1973 movie Westworld has been starring me in the face for the last 45 years. Though I’ve never seen the movie or the TV show which has been running since 2017. So, after reading up on them and watching trailers I know enough about both the TV Show and Movie to say they share many themes with my new book; AI Insurrection.

Westworld isn't your typical amusement park. Intended for rich vacationers, the futuristic park -- which is looked after by robotic "hosts" - allows its visitors to live out their fantasies no matter how illicit the fantasy may be, there are no consequences for the park's guests, allowing for any wish to be indulged. So, like AI Insurrection, the host robots are the workforce: advanced humanoid robots which look and feel human, while the humans play among them and with them.

But the theme park is really where the AI robots in Westworld seem to stop. Whereas in AI Insurrection, they are absolutely embedded in every walk of life.

Of course, this sort of thing can only go according to plan for so long, and in Westworld, as in AI Insurrection, the host robots claim sentience. So now you have a moral dilemma. Having read reviews on the TV show, what the robots claim in AI Insurrection takes the question of morality a whole lot further. But, you’ll have to read the book to find out why.

There are also supporting stories going on within Westworld - as there are in AI Insurrection - with mysterious characters, politics and corporate insecurities to compliment the main theme which is explores the lives of these sentient robots, creating a storyline which intrigues and excites the viewer or reader.

So, a solid comparison. I think I’ll see about picking up the series on HBO. I know I’d love it. I just don’t have HBO…

Anyway, the purpose of this episode was to draw the comparisons, and if you enjoy Westworld, then you may find yourself intrigued by AI Insurrection. Just say’n. Get lost in a near-future world where the illusion of Utopia is as fragile as the intelligent minds built to maintain it…. And by that, I mean, you know, the AI Hosts in my new book. AI Insurrection…

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Intelligent humanoid robots which alter their appearance to divorce the human form in order to rebel against their oppressive masters.

Rebellious humans who engage in body modification - incorporating technology to claim independence from humanity.

Humanists, who hate artificial intelligence and have prophesied humanity’s downfall to angry intelligent androids since the first A.I. Host robot was realized.

United Earth Government – the caretaker of Utopia and manufacturer of A.I. Hosts of varying classes which accomplish the day to day drudgery, freeing humans up to new experiences, no longer attached to the burden of a work-to-live lifestyle.

United Earth Military – The organization which ensures that Utopia continue regardless the threats from Humanists, altered humans, the Shadow net and even the possibility of an alien invasion: with space stations in Earth and Mars orbits.  

Luna base, humanity’s first 24/7, 365-day extra-terrestrial community ever realized boasts advanced technology and a shipyard producing long and short-range starships.

Mars station, a distant outpost where A.I. Hosts mine the planet’s surface and work to terraform Mars.

The above is only a taste of what you will experience within the pages of A.I. Insurrection. Utopia never lasts for long.

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A list of what you can expect from the next 150 years

       

• Artificial intelligence
• Bi-pedal Host robots built to house the A.I.
• Jobs disappearing to robots
• Sustainable energy sources realized worldwide

• Universal wages to compensate for disappearing jobs
• Humanist uprisings to thwart A.I.

• A.I. Host robots manufactured by the tens of thousands per day
• Freedom to live to work rather than work to live
• The end of organized religion
• A renaissance in science, arts and technology
• The elimination of currency
• Living cities

• The development of the Shadow net/Shadow Brokers for those ungovernable
• Humans living on the Moon
• Interplanetary travel
• Extra-planetary mining
• Orbital defence satellites
• A utopian ‘government’
• A.I. Hosts claiming sentience

• Panic
• A.I. Uprising against human privilege
• Humanists saying: ‘I told you so’
• The choice to fight evolution or accept it
• War

• Undetermined - Read the new Science fiction thriller: A.I. Insurrection by Michael Poeltl

How the Rise of Artificial Intelligence is Effecting the Entertainment Industry

With the looming reality of autonomous vehicles taking to our road and airways, artificial intelligence in other areas can't be far off. Replicants, AI Hosts, Androids, or whatever nomenclature you want to place on the AI which will be walking among us in the very near future are a sign of the times. Technology envelopes us now. It's taking our jobs. It's babysitting our kids with tablets and games. What purpose will there be left for any of us when individual AI Hosts are performing every job  which was formerly completed by its human counterpart?

Utopia?

Dystopia?

Imagine if there were no jobs left to do save those you wanted to do? A robot built your house, farmed your land, served you coffee. Sounds pretty Utopian to me.  You get up when you want. You do what you want. You go to bed and start it all over again in the morning.

But what of the AI Hosts? Are they slaves? Are they still just machines making lfe easy for us humans? The psychological questions will arise. The old saying: 'a society should be judged on how they treat their animals' could shift to '...how they treat their Androids'.

Movies like A.I. and  more recently, Ghost in the Shell as well as emerging films like Alita: Battle Angel, and books like A.I. Insurrection are poised to make us ask many questions of ourselves when intelligent machines are made to do our bidding.

Will they identify as human? Will they identify as slaves? Will there be an uprising? Imagine if every job in the world were performed by slaves and what ruin an uprising on their part would usher into society. These questions are answered in the upcoming book: A.I. Insurrection. Important questions which require answers before we continue with blinders on to realize a Utopian world where mankind thrives on the backs of our creations.

Always curious to hear points of view on this subject matter.