Let’s start with Nathan. Nathan represents a capitalist, calm and careful, boldly pursued, but also represents the mainstream of human society. A sense of contradiction. He pursues the completion of AI, and at the same time he fears and guards against the emergence of AI, just as human beings are tirelessly pursuing artificial intelligence in human society, but at the same time because of the inexplicable moral and ethical issues and the threat to human survival. Artificial intelligence has a fearful attitude.
Caleb is a programmer. He represents the attitude of a person with compassion and a normal moral conscience towards a self-aware artificial intelligence. Because Ava’s self-awareness is extremely similar to that of humans, Caleb forgets that Ava is an artificial intelligence, a robot from the beginning to the end. He treats Ava like a real person. He gives Ava his trust, but forgets. one thing. "Non-my family, its heart must be different". Blindly believing that an alien is a fatal result for Caleb. At the same time, I believe that this is what the director wants to express. Whether artificial intelligence is as self-aware as humans, artificial intelligence is always a robot, not a human being, and their position will always be It is impossible to be consistent with humans, and we can never easily believe in artificial intelligence. Although they may be weak, need help, and behave exactly like humans, their fundamental position determines that humans and artificial intelligence are not the same ethnic group, and it also determines that humans cannot coexist with artificial intelligence and another highly intelligent creature. Yes, creatures. From the moment artificial intelligence has self-awareness, they are already a new species. Although the neural circuits and material composition are very different from those of living beings, they are similar to living beings. From the moment they have self-awareness, they are new species, new highly intelligent creatures, but for the survival of their own race, humans and artificial intelligence will always have a natural gap. Because we are not the same creature, our position will never be the same. Caleb also realized this problem later, but it was too late, and all the results had already been caused.
Kyoko, a low-intelligence service robot. Judging from how assured Nathan was of her, she would dance when she heard the music, the rigid behavior pattern of undressing when she saw Caleb coming to him at night, and also through the shock when Nathan was finally killed by her with a knife, she must It is a low-intelligence, unconscious and unemotional service robot created by Nathan. Just because she was an unconscious and unemotional robot, Nathan gave her a hundred reassurances. But in the end, her killing of Nathan is also revealing that she already has self-awareness. A low-intelligence, unconscious and unemotional service robot has evolved its self-awareness through self-evolution. I believe this is also a concern that the director wants to express about today's robots. Kyoko not only evolved self-awareness, she also pretended that she did not have self-awareness to confuse Nathan to ensure her own survival. This reminds me of a famous problem. Hawking can't speak, and can only communicate with humans through machines. So is Hawking communicating with humans, or is it a machine pretending to be Hawking? This is exactly what the director worries about. What if the current robots can also evolve into consciousness, but pretend to be unconscious for the sake of self-existence, waiting for the day when they can counter humans? This is the director's worries and fears about another type of robot.
Ava, a perfect artificial intelligence, has compassion, self-awareness, imagination, the instinct to pursue self-survival and the ability to use everything to escape disaster. She perfectly represents the definition of artificial intelligence in human society. It is perfect, self-aware, and super capable, just like a god. She is so perfect. But it is precisely her perfection that makes human beings fear and wary of her existence. At the same time, her ability and perfection made her realize the difference between her and humans early, and also made her realize that to survive, humans would be her number one threat.
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