The first film review!

Renee 2022-03-21 09:01:05

I saw this movie in today's "Modern Western Technology Philosophy" class, but fortunately I didn't fall asleep.
We first have a basic assumption that artificial intelligence will cause unpredictable catastrophic consequences. This is an inevitable word. Then the movie actually provides a number of accidents that allow humans to survive this disaster. One of the most important assumptions is that there is a role like a prophet (father of robots), who foretells such a disaster and is even willing to sacrifice his life to provide the male protagonist with a clue that may be ignored, and the male protagonist He was smart enough to follow the picture and finally saved mankind, not to mention other hardware coincidences such as unsurveilled underground passages and the final halo of the protagonist of the fierce battle. The coincidences required in these movies are difficult to happen at the same time in reality, that is, If disasters are inevitable, then the way out for mankind is extremely slim.

Secondly, I want to discuss the three laws themselves. The absurd consequences derived from the so-called three laws are actually inherent contradictions in human society. Human beings as a whole and each individual of human beings cannot be unified at all, so there will be "without violating the previous laws" before the law. But why the human as a whole is the highest priority? In fact, this has already made a choice (collective), and the legitimacy of this choice is completely questionable. At least, the contradiction between it and the individual is obvious. However, in real life, this contradiction has not caused the devastating consequences shown in the movie (it can even be said that it has already occurred, such as the Jewish Holocaust), and artificial intelligence only manifests this contradiction. And this apparent dynamic mechanism is to completely rationalize violence. This rationalization process can expose human irrational contradictions and trigger ethical issues that robots cannot understand. This is similar to Bowman’s argument. .
In addition, as a non-computer and non-philosophical student, I am trying to discuss language here. Take the first law as an example. Sometimes human beings are doing bad things with good intentions. It is difficult to quantitatively judge what is "harm". So how can robots be able to make accurate judgments? The so-called three laws are the complete description of the world schema with limited language (regardless of simplicity) of human fantasy. However, there are still questions about the correspondence between "things" and "words". How can we use simple laws to regulate all the behaviors of artificial intelligence within human expectations? We can say that the three laws themselves are not contradictory to each other, but according to Godel's extremely powerful theorem, there are bound to be some behaviors beyond the system delineated by the three laws that cannot be proved or falsified. So even if I don’t hold a negative attitude towards artificial intelligence, I don’t think it can solve this contradiction.
In contrast to the human world, there are many "unspeakable" "most important things", such as the irrational choice of emotional factors in the film as a clue (the male protagonist’s choice of 7%, and finally Sandy’s choice of the female protagonist ), this may be the unique, unrepeatable, and most dignified part of human beings.

Finally, let me spit out, why does the thing that the robot formatted looks like a chemical reagent! ! ! Do you want to be so weird! ! !

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Extended Reading
  • Cameron 2021-10-20 18:59:52

    (8/10) Although the film itself is not bad, it has nothing to do with Asimov's original film. It is just an original cool film that uses the original shell. The personality of the original protagonist Susan Kevin has also changed a lot. The novel version spends the main energy on discussing the impact of robots on human society. Adventures and the like are secondary. The movie version is mainly about adventures and fights. There is very little content that seriously discusses the robot society itself, so that this story Whether to use robots as the background is actually the same. Of course, there are some that are relatively reductive. Many characters in the novel have appeared on the scene, and some settings of "Steel Cave" and "Nude Sun" are also applied. It is also mentioned in the original work that robots must protect humans, but robots protect humans. Whether the method of humans accepts it is another matter. After all, shutting up humans is also a way to eliminate war. But the overall change is great. To a certain extent, "Time of Eve" is closer to the concept of Asimov's original work than the film with the name "Me, Robot".

  • Eduardo 2022-03-25 09:01:04

    How much I love will smith.

I, Robot quotes

  • Lawrence Robertson: Well, we both know you're not here on police business.

    Detective Del Spooner: No, I'm just a regular 6'2", 200lb civilian...

    [sweeps objects off Robertson's desk]

    Detective Del Spooner: here to kick another civilian's ass.

    Lawrence Robertson: [the guards try to restraint Spooner] STOP, allow him to express himself.

  • Farber: [after an NS5 robot grabs Spooner] Spoon, watch out, man!

    Detective Del Spooner: [sarcastically] Thanks a lot, Farber.