This presentation aims to show, Why Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is still alive in Robotic Age

1. From
Frankenstein
to Artificial
Intelligence
[What a 200 years-old
Novel teaches us about
robotics and our Future]

2. Name : Asha R. Dhedhi
Roll no : 02
Semester: M.A. SEM - 2 (2020-21)
Enrollment No: 2069108420200010
Email ID: ashadhedhi1806@gmail.com
Submitted to: Department of English
(MKBU)
Romantic Literature

3. Objectives of Presentation
● Why Marry Shelley’s
Frankenstein remain still alive
in enlightened Robot Age
● Why Monster in Shelley’s time
and Robot’s in 21st century
manifested as - Dangerous
● “FRANKENSTEIN COMPLEX”

4. Question🤔
What does AI have to
do with an ugly
Monster sewn
together from various
body parts??

5. What is
Artificial
Intelligence?
● Wide Branch of Computer
Science
● Building a smart machine,
which capable enogh to
perform a task in which
required Human Intelligence
● Examples: Sophia, Alexa,

6. Thinking
Humanely
Acting
Humanl
y
Thinking
Rationally
Acting
Rationall
y
What can AI Do?
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2
3
4

7. Fundamenta
l Archetype
Science and
Technology- What
their noble
intention,
Inevitably create a
Monster that will
gain Anatomy and
Return to Haunt.

8. Challenge the Law of Nature
Myth of
Prometheus
(Fire)
Robot as
Scientific
Invention
(Technology)
Creation of
Monster
(Electricity)
No one Ever win who play
the Hubris Card

9. Dr.Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Dr.FaustusDoctor
Moreau
Humans Endless Curiosity
Dr. Jekyll never
liberates
himself from
Darkness
Mad-scientist
creates human
like Hybrid beings
from Animals
Wants to get
knowledge and
power
“Necromancy”

10. Why Monster is Dangerous?
Psychoanalytic notion of
Projection of Monsters are
Understand as representing
human anxieties regarding
the dehumanizing
tendencies of Science and
Resons.

11. Why we Afraid of AI?
● Will Artificial
Intelligence overpower
human intelligence?
● Will our inventions
Finally enslave and kill
us?
● AI is like Frankenstein’s
Creator for our century.

12. ● “People are the
Product of their own
Tools”
- Francois
Chollet
● Challenging the Law
of Nature leads to the
‘Ultimate End’
So
What?

13. Who is the real Monster?
● Creature?
● Creator?
● Society?
● We Blame Science
● We Blame Technology
● But actually…..
We are at Fault

14. ● AI would be Made
Monsterous are not
Human Hubris but by
Human Cruelty.
● It is Magalomania of
Scientist and
Technologists
● Society as Monster

15. References
● Brain Bar https://medium.com/@brainbar/from-frankenstein-to-sophia-
or-what-a-200-year-old-novel-teaches-us-about-robotics-and-our-
future-d7cae1ca07
● Heinowitz, Cole. “Mary Shelley and the Rights of the Child: Political
Philosophy in Frankenstein.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 41,
no. 1, 2018, pp. 99–102., doi:10.1080/08905495.2018.1541302.

16. Thank
You