Core Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Libraries Interest Group

Thank you to everyone who attended the joint Imagineering IG and AI and ML in Libraries IG session discussing AI in fiction. The program was a success with over 100 registrants and 57 who attended live.

• Recording link: https://ala-events.zoom.us/rec/share/PzVt6eZotNoQGxhMUq2tX-CCP_u5cBfKMoxoGSs4Myhntby2tBlM3SzWCAe3_JOZ.Gb41AizSBQRNaUOH

• Evaluation survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PCFLBHC

• Interest Group Week sessions: https://www.ala.org/core/continuing-education/interest-group-week

Since it was a wide-ranging discussion of fiction, I'm copying a list below of all the titles mentioned in discussion and chat (roughly by order of mention). The majority of them feature an AI character. Happy reading/listening/viewing!

The discussion started out with the characters of Data and Lore on Star Trek Next Generation (and circled back to them a few times).

• Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_(Star_Trek)

• Measure of a man episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)

• Hamlet, Prince of Robots (M. Darusha Wehm): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61443456-hamlet-prince-of-robots
• The Lifecyle of Software Objects (Novella by Ted Chiang): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7886338-the-lifecycle-of-software-objects  Freely available: https://web.archive.org/web/20130306030242/http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the_lifecycle_of_software_objects_by_ted_chiang
• Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells): https://www.goodreads.com/series/191900-the-murderbot-diaries
• A Rovers story (Jasmine Warga): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60091384-a-rover-s-story
• Short Circuit (Johnny Five): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Circuit_(1986_film)
• Scalzi books: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4763.John_Scalzi
• Expanse series (James S. A. Corey): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53152963-james-s-a-corey-expanse-series-8-books-collection-set
• The Kaiju Preservation Society (John Scalzi): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57693406-the-kaiju-preservation-society
• Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54493401-project-hail-mary
• Locked Tomb Series featuring Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir): https://www.goodreads.com/series/229503-the-locked-tomb
• Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20518872-the-three-body-problem
• Honor Harrington Series (David Weber): https://www.goodreads.com/series/40419-honor-harrington
• The Infinity Courts series (Akemi Dawn Bowman): https://www.goodreads.com/series/286281-the-infinity-courts
• Backyard starship series (J.N. Chaney): https://www.goodreads.com/series/327230-backyard-starship
• Evil AI's (as opposed to benevolent and curious ones)

• Hal from 2001 Space Odyssey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000
• The Terminator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator
• Skynet (Terminator): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)

• The Mitchells vs the Machines (Netflix animated family movie): https://www.netflix.com/title/81399614
• Are Transformers AIs or just aliens or now just natural intelligence?
• Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time

Where do cyborgs fit in?

• Doctor Who: Daleks? (group intelligence?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalek
• Borg from Star Trek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg
• Cybermen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberman
• Star Trek episode where Data created a daughter ("The Offspring"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Offspring_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
• Stargate: replicators
• Battlestar Galactica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica_(2004_TV_series)

Transformation (waking up in an alien/different body)

• Bobiverse Series (Dennis E. Taylor): https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse
• X-Man who divides into other being (Jamie Madrox): Multiple Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Madrox
• Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) (people who wake up and are not themselves): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/485894.The_Metamorphosis
• Old Man's War (John Scalzi): https://www.goodreads.com/series/40789-old-man-s-war
• Wayfarers Series (Becky Chambers): https://www.goodreads.com/series/170872-wayfarers

Chat mentions:

• Story of Your Life (Ted Chiang): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48749235-story-of-your-life
• Sea of Tranquility (Emily St. John Mandel): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58446227-sea-of-tranquility
• Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20170404-station-eleven
• WALL-E (movie): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E
• Eva (2011 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_(2011_film)
• The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Philip K. Dick): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14185.The_Three_Stigmata_of_Palmer_Eldritch
• Ron's Gone Wrong (computer-animated film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%27s_Gone_Wrong
• Eagle Eye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Eye
• Space Opera (Catherynne M. Valente): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24100285-space-opera
• Oblivion (Movie): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion_(2013_film)
• Brainships Series (Anne McCaffery): https://www.goodreads.com/series/40397-brainship
• Questionable Content Webcomic: https://questionablecontent.net/