Some thoughts on this movie

Lionel 2022-04-20 09:01:31

1. AI

is not particularly new. It is about artificial intelligence. Humans can make all kinds of things. Except for self-aware organisms, the things that are made can eventually be controlled. Once it is created Things become self-aware and obviously no longer in control. A recurring sentence in the film: How do you prove your own existence? Whether it’s PINN or Will’s answer is a rhetorical question: How do you, as human beings, prove your self-awareness? The difference between humans and machines lies more in whether they can Mobilize the existing knowledge store to creatively output something completely new, not just call what is already in the database to make judgments about what to process. Artificial intelligence has always been a goal that makes people think and work hard. With the rapid development of computer technology, more and more sophisticated transistors are like brain cells. They can act as substitutes and are a more advanced technology. Biomimetic products, however, not only at the technical level, but also at the ethical level, which still makes human beings to demonstrate and think ahead. The infinite expansion and growth of the Internet makes the current artificial intelligence based on an open platform, and its capabilities are infinite and possible. This is also the starting point of the story of this film. A super-giant computer combined with the consciousness of smart people, and then connected to the World Wide Web , so as to mobilize all kinds of software and hardware resources connected to the Internet, it has become a fact of making God. However, this "God" is also a life-like existence. He needs energy to maintain life (self-made solar power grid), it can also grow (hardware upgrades), and it can be ubiquitous. In the corner, as long as there is the Internet, there is its existence. The Internet is its carrier. It exists and is ubiquitous, and this is its life gate. At the end of the film, in order to solve Will, they ruthlessly ruined the entire Internet, shutting down all systems related to it, and the display in the film gives people a post-apocalyptic image, desolate and tired, material shortage, all The progress of life has been turned into nothingness. This is not a contradiction. Will's purpose is to make the world a better place, but after the destruction of the Internet, human society cannot escape disaster.

2. Human-machine conflict

The theme of Asimov's "I, Robot" is also the war between man and machine (similar to "Skynet" and "Rebel" in Terminator). The new type of robot intervenes in human life and carries out a kind of totalitarian control. The starting point is for the good of human beings, but the means are characterized by suppression, control and restriction. In this film, Will computer, which is connected to the Internet, develops great and unimaginable intelligence by using the information resources on the entire network, making many fantasy technologies possible. Its core technology is a highly self-replicating technology. Capable nano-cells, like a kind of universal capsule, can not only rejuvenate hands, but also instantly repair damaged human cells, cure disabilities, and even cure congenital diseases. For example, stem cell technology has become a medical method that can achieve the most negative effects. The thing is: the healed humans have realized the existence of superhumans - people who have evolved and upgraded, in addition, as long as they can connect (via wifi?) with the will host, they can instantly restore the damaged body, and more dangerously, These people have receivers installed on their heads, passively controlled by Will's consciousness, and some of them have become the walking dead (when I watched it, I almost didn't think this film became a zombie movie...), when Will needs them, they can Control them at any time, like a new type of robot controlled by "VIKI" in "I, Robot".

3. BiG Brother

Will has his own bust image on all terminal displays and can call all networked cameras. He can not only monitor Evelyn all the time, but also monitor the images under all cameras. Not only that, he can see more, Through the analysis of heat radiation, heart rate, breathing rate, and even hormone secretion, he can judge the more real feelings of Evelyn's expression (but only through the analysis of a bunch of data, he can accurately judge the real feelings of the individual ?Evelyn has virus nano cells in his body, and intends to paralyze Will by uploading his own consciousness. Will can accurately judge the changes in tension in Evelyn's body, but he can't judge the truth. Maybe he can truly understand after uploading, but It's too late, evelyn pretends to be nervous because of fear). It reminds us of the ubiquitous Big Brother in 1984, when Morgan sneaks the note "run from here" into Evelyn's hands with a chilling horror.

4.
It won't take a few days for Depp to shoot this movie, and Freeman actually, there will be no essential difference in whoever plays it, and the box office may not be as guaranteed as it is now;
FBI and Washington When people and terrorists took the pickup-based land vehicle together and set off to destroy Will's solar panels, the billowing dust and the towed artillery gave the Libyan opposition a stance. Could it be a terrorist? The means of transportation, and the terrifying mortars...

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Transcendence quotes

  • Max Waters: I spent my life trying to reduce the brain to a series of electrical impulses. I failed. Human emotion, it can contain illogical conflict. Can love someone, and yet hate the things that they've done. Machine can't reconcile that.

    Evelyn Caster: Can you?

    Max Waters: Yes.

  • [first lines]

    Max Waters: They say there's power in Boston. Some phone service in Denver. But things are far from what they were. Maybe it was all invevitable. An unavoidable collision between mankind and technology. The Internet was meant to make the world a smaller place. But it actually feels smaller without it. I knew Will and Evelyn Caster better than anyone. I knew their brillance. Their dedication to what they believed in. And to what they loved.