© Sabine Streckhardt/3sat
Documentary | 2022 | ZDF [de] | Germany
Main data
| Director | Volker Strübing |
|---|---|
| Production | Kobalt Productions GmbH |
Brief synopsis
For millennia, the answer was simple: we were the crown of creation, because only we could create art, talk to each other, play chess, throw bombs or vacuum the apartment. But artificial intelligences and robots are breaking one tine after another from our crown. What is it that makes humans and their creative work? Can a computer be creative? And what does it mean for our society when we can no longer distinguish whether we are communicating with a human being or an artificial intelligence?
For decades, AI has been penetrating areas that we consider to be the original human domain. Algorithms determine our consumer behavior, write volumes of love poems, diagnose cancer, go to war and drive cars. The existential question remains, what actually makes us who we are, when the uniqueness of the human being is challenged.
AI: Simulation of empathy and love
Beyond hype or scaremongering, author Volker Strübing explores the (competitive) relationship between humans and robots. Together with his AI Thekla, he focuses on the inner values of interpersonal expression and exchange: What does the simulation of empathy or love mean? And why do we deny the validity of a work of art the moment we learn of its machine creation? The documentary "I compute, therefore I am" examines those areas that we willingly leave to an AI and those in which its use seems irritating and alienating to us. From robots used in nursing to poetry-writing AIs that write theater texts.
A documentary about artificial intelligence - which is above all about people.
For decades, AI has been penetrating areas that we consider to be the original human domain. Algorithms determine our consumer behavior, write volumes of love poems, diagnose cancer, go to war and drive cars. The existential question remains, what actually makes us who we are, when the uniqueness of the human being is challenged.
AI: Simulation of empathy and love
Beyond hype or scaremongering, author Volker Strübing explores the (competitive) relationship between humans and robots. Together with his AI Thekla, he focuses on the inner values of interpersonal expression and exchange: What does the simulation of empathy or love mean? And why do we deny the validity of a work of art the moment we learn of its machine creation? The documentary "I compute, therefore I am" examines those areas that we willingly leave to an AI and those in which its use seems irritating and alienating to us. From robots used in nursing to poetry-writing AIs that write theater texts.
A documentary about artificial intelligence - which is above all about people.