Understandable Robot/Computer Knowledge Resource?

[nondenomifan]

Hello, all. I am attempting to graduate to the realm of original fiction writing with a near-future dystopic about robots programmed to detect when people who are near death's door have reached the point of no return, thus freeing medical personnel and family members from a daunting decision. The majority of my work will either take place in a near

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[beesandbrews]

My suggestion is write your story as you see it and don't get over bogged down in the contemporary science. You're not writing an journal paper, presumably you are writing a metaphor or allegory about the human condition. You can always do additional research once you have the bones of your story in place.

[verrucaria]

I know nothing about AI, but there won't be any actual distinct mobile robots doing the analysis here (unless the clinicians providing the care are robots, and they also do the survival likelihood analysis--but even then, I think the actual analysis would be done by some central computer, and the robot clinicians would just receive the final verdict from that).

AI is starting to be used in analyzing x-rays, mammograms, etc., but creating robots in the classic sense to achieve this is superfluous. The analysis is done by computers (or computer clusters or something like that).

If you want to write a story about classic robots, write it the way the old-school authors did, and don't try to hard for a hybrid version because that probably just won't work very well.

[louisedennis]

Maybe the Machine Ethics podcast? https://www.machine-ethics.net - it tends to feature a range of perspectives on AI and where its going and is aimed at a general rather than a specialist audience. Not every episode would be of interest, but you can probably pick and choose from the summary which are likely to be useful.

[shark_hat]

Janelle McShane's book You Look Like A Thing And I Love You is a funny, very accessible intro to AI (the title is from a list of pick-up lines generated by AI).