Parallel between Star Wars droids and actual AI

[Jannes]

I always wondered  how droids and non-droids could coexist in star wars. Droids could speak in every language and hold an amount of perspectives and strategies that no non-droid could. So it always seemed like non-droids got owned for the plot, but in reality if a droid ever got so intelligent it seemed like it would be a dominant force. But here we are with with AI in the real world. AI sounds super sophisticated and can use a huge amount of data, but still it can do very little on its own. Just like in Star Wars. I find it interesting that this dynamic was already captured before AI happened in our world. 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

I think droids in Star Wars were getting frequent memory wipes which was a mechanic built into them, and they were centrally controlled and supplied by organics. Also there was such a thing as the Force, and anyone Force sensitive and sufficiently trained would be able to deal with anything droids could bring even if they weren't controlled and ran amok. We don't have such guardrails