How Many of These Fictional AI Have You Encountered?
1 min readJun 26, 2024
AI has long captured the imagination of science fiction creators and fans. What would an AI act like? What if it became self-aware? Is AI a friend or foe? What can an artificial intelligence do that humans cannot? These questions inspired the long legacy of characters depicted on this graphic from AIPRM. It shows us a colorful timeline of fictional AI in all kinds of media from film to television to video games.
Can you spot your favorite AI on this list? Here are just a few of the characters featured:
- False Maria from Metropolis
- Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey
- C-3PO and R2-D2 from Star Wars
- Marvin the Paranoid Android from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Replicants from Blade Runner
- Skynet and the Terminator from The Terminator
- Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation
- RoboCop from RoboCop
- The Phalanx from Uncanny X-Men
- Sonny from I, Robot
- GlaDOS from Portal
- J.A.R.V.I.S from Iron Man
- M3gan from M3gan