In the pre-Internet era, the image of artificial intelligence is a robot, which is fundamentally different from us as human beings. However, in people’s minds, artificial intelligence is already a kind of ethical dilemma that can cause people to have ethical dilemmas, and moral disputes may even be completely different. The species that replaces humans and deconstructs humans.
Like last year's much-discussed "She" dubbed by the goddess Scarlett, this "Machine Ji" is also a work about artificial intelligence. From the perspective of the work, "She" is more about cutting into the loneliness of the human heart through the perspective of artificial intelligence, while this "Mechanical Ji" really presents the future of artificial intelligence before us—— Of course, it is not the future after being completely ruled by artificial intelligence, but the moment when artificial intelligence broke free from human control and began to invade human society. In fact, this is the most frightening moment.
The director of this film is Alex Garland, who is a screenwriter and has written "The Catastrophe of the Sun" and "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and so on. The drama he wrote and directed is full of tension, setting a classic lonely scene from the beginning.
The programmer of the world's largest search engine company won the company's internal award and had the honor to spend a week with the legendary company founder at the boss's private estate. He was parachuted by a private helicopter to a manor separated by snow-capped mountains and waterfalls. After greeting the kind and weird solitary boss, he began to delve into this high-tech residence little by little. More importantly, he was told that his purpose of coming here is to help the boss test an artificial intelligence person Eva. Gradually, everything changed from joy and curiosity to deep fear...
As a successful screenwriter, Alex Garland found a tangent line between reality and science fiction. This subtle ability to control, from scene design to detail presentation, can be seen everywhere, which is also the key to the success of this film. The structure of this movie is very simple. Like a book or a script, it is divided into chapters and deduced completely in an emotionally progressive way. First see, understand, marvel, suspense, and finally end all fantasy with a huge reversal.
And this process of emotional progression happens to be the spectrum of human attitudes towards artificial intelligence. "Machine Ji" shows people a basic ethical dilemma. It is that the pinnacle of artificial intelligence is not technology and wisdom, but emotion. If you really want a "robot"-let's call it this way-with the ability to interact with humans, it is not enough to have the skills to work and imitate human intelligence. Emotions are more important and more advanced things. , But the problem is that once the robot has feelings, it becomes her or him. The movie also sets a clear gender and sexual orientation for Eva. Then, they will inevitably have an exploration of "self". And thinking, the concept of "freedom" will be born as an instinct. "Why can't I go out?" "If the experiment fails, I will be shut down, but why won't you be shut down?" When an artificial intelligence device raises such a question, we fall into a huge black hole of ethical dilemma . Are they people or things? What’s more frightening is that after Eva in the movie had feelings, she began to show her love to the programmer who came to test him. She used her beauty and understanding to conquer this lonely man, but you don’t know what this show of love is. A subtle strategy that is calculated by big data in order to escape is still from the true love that resembles the human heart. A lie is a very advanced and very subtle thing. When artificial intelligence can even grasp a lie, and the premise is that it can see through your lie through your micro-expression, it becomes an impossible right. Waiting for the game. This is the more terrifying problem thrown by "Machine Ji".
In the end, the programmer was moved by love and compassion, and felt that Eva should not be imprisoned like a prisoner, and decided to take her away. But in the end, this artificial intelligence girl not only used human weakness to kill the man who made him, but also imprisoned the programmer in this unmanned mansion and escaped to the human world by herself.
Like "She" and "Black Mirror" and other excellent works that interrogate artificial intelligence, "Mechanic Ji" still holds a fearful attitude towards artificial intelligence. To some extent, the future controlled by artificial intelligence is a utopia. Style future, and these authors are all humanists, they must hold a “dystopian” attitude. There is no problem with people making tools, but people making "humanoids" must make people feel scared. What's even more frightening is that we may no longer be able to turn our heads back, and we are heading towards that future.
(Text | Yang Shiyang)
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