Artificial intelligence and humankind relations in science fiction cinema


Arş. Gör. KÜBRA NİSANOĞLU

Tez Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Graduate School, Film and Television Master's Program, Türkiye

Tez Danışmanı: Doç. Dr. Osman Kaya Özkaracalar

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2021

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu

Özet:

Artificial intelligence is a profound and extremely important subject on which widespread studies in different branches are carried out by physical sciences and human sciences. Basically, we can say that artificial intelligence is a software that can design its algorithms without entering an external algorithm, its algorithms are unpredictable and aware of its existence. Although a limited number of studies have been conducted on artificial intelligence films, which have taken their place as a sub-genre in science fiction cinema, I started this study thinking that it is important to examine and scrutinize the sociological and psychological effects and behaviors these films have created on their audience.


In this thesis, from the origin of the word robot to today, I examined the events that took place in science, society and cinema, the classifications of genres and sub-genres, and their effects on social and individual relations, in contrast to human society and artificial intelligence. There are two basic types of relationships that are commonly used between the characters that an AI themed movie audience encounters in the film, which is generally described as either a slave-owner relationship or a monster-human relationship. Human emotions and thoughts such as prejudice, technophobia, fear of the future, inferiority and curiosity, etc. are the basis of these relationships. The effect of chaos and bidirectional problems on artificial intelligence and sub-genres-themed films during humanity, who is exposed to suddenly emerging high-tech products, regulates its relations with these devices and machines, which are new members of society, I examined through Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Artificial Intelligence, Ghost in the Shell, Ex Machina and Upgrade movies. The final result I have reached is that the relationship between artificial intelligence and society in science fiction cinema is fed by the mutual interaction of cinema and its audience.