![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, the nursery room provides with an augmented and immersive environment that can read children’s minds and present to them what they want to see with realistic images. The Hadley family lives in an advanced house that is capable of doing almost every task like clothing, feeding, rocking to sleep and even singing the songs. I’d like to give a summary of the fiction first. The purpose of this review is to probe the attitudes and thoughts from science fiction and academic perspectives about how people think of technologies and what are the relations between science communities and ordinary people. The Computing Machinery and Intelligence is one of the most profound article in computer science and artificial intelligence field written by Alan Turing published in 1950, which explores the question ‘Can machines think’ and that is also known to public as Turing Test. The Veldt was written by American author Ray Bradbury in 1950, which is a science fiction about parents lose control of their children and get killed by them because of locking up their favorite nursery room in a super intelligent house. ![]()
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