book and film discussion: Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

*Blade Runner: Final Cut (*1982, director Ridley Scott) and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (1968, author Philip K. Dick)
We'll be discussing both the film and the book.

The artificial general intelligence (AGI) community is currently defining what would be the capabilities by which we would know whether AGI has been achieved in an AI system. Planning towards a goal, knowledge representation, reasoning, identifying/reacting to hazards, manipulating/navigating a physical 3D environment, and learning are among these capabilities; yet how limited are we in any of these processes without feelings, empathy, or a sense of self? Let's revisit these questions after reading about bounty hunter Rick Deckard hunting and "retiring" six Nexus-6 android fugitives who are being aided by below-average IQ John Isidore in a dystopian, post-nuclear San Francisco.

Although Philip K. Dick never saw Ridley Scott's adaptation in its entirety, he was still pleased after an initial bout of skepticism. In a 1981 interview, he said "‘After I finished reading the screenplay, I got the novel out and looked through it. The two reinforce each other, so that someone who started with the novel would enjoy the movie and someone who started with the movie would enjoy the novel. I was amazed that Peoples could get some of those scenes to work. It taught me things about writing that I didn’t know." Philip K. Dick also was optimistic that Blade Runner would revolutionize science fiction as it was known then, and upon seeing footage, he said “How is this possible? How can this be? Those are not the exact images, but the texture and tone of the images I saw in my head when I was writing the original book! The environment is exactly as how I’d imagined it! How’d you guys do that? How did you know what I was feeling and thinking?’

To find where can you watch it and with which language options:
https://www.werstreamt.es/film/details/539951/blade-runner/