First of all, let’s talk about the plot. There are spoilers. In addition, I want to emphasize that the director and screenwriter of this film are the same person. In a sense, this person is a personal traitor. His tendency is obvious. In this film, humans are the opposite characters. The backward species that are about to be eliminated. This is a major premise that must be mentioned in advance.
The male protagonist (pseudo) Vincent is a scientist working for the MOD (Ministry of Defense), ostensibly studying the use of brain implants and mechanical prostheses to help wounded soldiers improve the quality of life. Vincent has a very high standard. , The team can no longer give him more help, and AI’s research has encountered a bottleneck. In this case, Vincent decided to hire an assistant. So the heroine (pseudo) Ava appeared, Ava is a top student in the Stanford AI field. The AI program she designed by herself easily passed the Vincent Ling Chart test, so she was hired as an assistant by Vincent. Ava talks with her AI every day, and trains her program in this way, so that the AI can get the right answer. External perceptions. This kind of AI does not rely on traditional big data, but is based on training experience (this is a very critical setting). Outside the research facility, a mother who lost her child in the war sought the department to tell the truth (As mentioned above, the superficial research direction here is mechanical prosthetics, so there are disabled soldiers here), which makes Ava curious about the real situation here.
The real research direction of this military facility where Vincent works is to develop artificial intelligence based on quantum computers, and then use controllable artificial intelligence to drive bionic robotic soldiers. At this time, the research on mechanical prosthetics has actually been very complete. The mechanical legs and mechanical spine have been studied, and what is missing is the artificial intelligence that controls these machines. The physically disabled soldiers here are the experimental carriers of mechanical prosthetics, and the soldiers with brain injuries are the experimental carriers of controllable AI. Vincent Te himself is actually a stubborn scientist. His daughter suffers from rett syndrome. The purpose of Vincent’s work here is to borrow the technical resources of the entire country to develop artificial intelligence with real human nature, and simulate his daughter through artificial intelligence. To rebirth the daughter's soul (or hope to use AI artificial intelligence as the carrier of the daughter's soul rebirth).
Ava deliberately strayed into Zone 6 once, and at the same time, after implanting the vector computer into the back door, he was discovered by the base supervisor. The supervisor felt that Ava was a threat. At this time, a killer tried to assassinate the scientist to hinder the development of technology. , Ava was killed by a killer, and Vincent, the male protagonist, was aware of what the supervisor did, so he suffered a lot of guilt for Ava. Although Ava died, the AI she developed worked well on quantum computers, powerful computers and The combination of excellent AI has made a breakthrough in artificial intelligence technology. At the same time, based on the guilt of Ava, Vincent decided to use Ava-trained (or created) AI as the core of the bionic brain, and at the same time use Ava's appearance With advanced mechanical bones and bionic skin, an experimental bionic person was reconstructed: The Machine (yes, there is only such a code name for the true woman).
After the birth of Machine, it showed good human-like characteristics, received training (education), is friendly to humans, has obvious emotional performance, and has an independent personality (not accepting orders that she does not agree with). The supervisor feels that such AI is uncontrollable and treats humans. Not only is there no value but a huge threat. At this time, Vincent's daughter is dead, so he threatens Vincent to remove the human part of Machine by deleting the daughter's brain wave model (which can be regarded as the backup of the daughter's soul). The AI part of obeying the order. Vincent knew that he had actually created a new type of intelligent life, so he was unwilling to accept the supervisor's order, but the daughter's survival was imminent, so he decided to cooperate with Machine to deceive the supervisor and removed the Machine bionic brain through surgery. The self-exposure battery inside (so that humans can no longer counter Machine), and lied to the supervisor that it was the human part of Machine AI. Vincent used his daughter to take risks and created the necessary conditions for Machine to return to the base. Sente decided to let Machine be the backup carrier for his daughter. These behaviors moved Machine deeply. Since humans have no means to counter Machine, the invulnerable Machine will undoubtedly bring his AI brothers out of the base without any doubt. At the end is Vincent, Machine and her daughter watch the sunrise together. The daughter said in a slightly disgusting tone: I want to play with Mommy, not you. (Daughter's digital soul has been restored on the Machine's processor. Vincent's research was successful.)
In the history of human science fiction films, although there are various worldview settings, some films are closely related to the current human science and technology tree and can be regarded as a timeline. For example, Terminator, The Matrix, Transformers (animation). From the timeline From the above point of view, Terminator is the closest to the 21st century, which is the time of this article. With the rise of AI and machinery, the most realistic threat facing mankind is the machine revolution, which is the content of the Terminator's reactions. After the revolution, AI and machinery will also face the bottleneck of evolution. How to break through the bottleneck and the resulting conflict is the content of The Matrix's response. After that, evolution will inevitably produce multiple evolutionary routes (efficient single will and creative Multiple independent individual consciousness is the most likely conflict), conflicts between different genres are unavoidable. And this is what Transformers tells. But before these events, these films did not explain the emergence of AI singularity , And did not explain how AI machinery accumulates the earliest production resources. The biggest significance of The Machine is this. She added the missing timeline in this part. Some key settings in the film are very forward-looking. The director. (The screenwriter himself) obviously understands this field very well. For example, the AI singularity in the film is generated like this: the AI created by Ava does not rely entirely on traditional big data, but is based on training experience. In other words, this kind of intelligent program has the ability to communicate with humans and machines, and at the same time it can learn by itself. And why human beings are at the top of the earth's biological chain at least now, because human knowledge can be passed on, and progress can be made in inheritance. At the end of the film, the escaped Machine He Vincent can use his knowledge and ability to easily create a technology company.Such a technology company becomes a business empire that can affect the country only overnight, which completes the original accumulation of resources.
Finally, let’s talk about this film. The heroine Caity Lotz herself learns to dance. The dance in the film has a unique beauty with the mechanical body effect. In some battles and training scenes in the film, Caity Lotz performed amazingly, and she was born in dancing. Her muscles are not small, she looks very effective in combat, and she has a strong sense of strength. This is very different from the traditional female action movies. Thomson, the head of the base, should be especially mentioned. As emphasized above, this human being is a villain, if From the perspective of humans, the base director Thomson is the only positive character in the film, even a hero. He is calm and decisive, and values human interests above all else. On the contrary, Vincent is just a person who even his daughter hates. evil.
Thomson said:
Conscious machines are the last thing we need. Have you any idea how dangerous that would be? We barely understand this prototype. What happens when it designs the next generation... and that gen machine designs another? They'd be so far advanced , we'd be helpless against them. We'd be wiped out in months. The technologically advanced tribe always wins.
In recent years, there have been a lot of movies and games that show artificial intelligence, but more of them are human-based discussions. Humans take it for granted that AI is human, like humans, and live in peace with humans, obeyed and controlled by people, but with current technology From the perspective of progress, human beings lack the means to counter AI machinery, or in other words, human beings with multiple body-conscious lives are naturally very low in efficiency. Although this is a rape film, at least the setting of this film It seems real enough and anti-traditional enough. The film Chinese Sente said to Machine: You're the future. She'll need you more than me in her new life. I trust you. I think this is the human right The attitude that AI should have. If you can't seek breakthroughs in other fields, then the AI mechanical revolution is almost an inevitable prospect. Humans have limited potential, and at the same time, there are very few researches on the enhancement of the human body in the current human science and technology tree. Various ethical verbal criticisms. On the other hand, human research on the spiritual and soul fields can be said to have embarked on a different path since the beginning of the steam revolution.
Two sentences at the end,
The occurrence of an omnic crisis is difficult, more difficult than biological disasters, unless a race has a deep understanding of genetic instincts and has methods to improve the race’s intelligence, and these require a lot of pre-technology, and it can even be said that these technologies are philosophical. The end. The birth of strong artificial intelligence is equivalent to creating a brand-new race that is stronger than oneself. This kind of thing is more difficult than the creation of the world by the gods.
The film is well-founded, and such a low rating is underestimated.
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