What exactly is Black Mirror?
On the surface, the black mirror is the monitor we usually use. But "Black Mirror" is actually a metaphor for the digital age and artificial intelligence to reflect the nature of our lives.
Just like the nature of human consciousness discovered by humans in the process of researching robots in "Westworld", and the relationship between soul and body that we discovered in the process of researching how to improve human life experience and protect ourselves in "Avatar" and "Surrogate" With the development of artificial intelligence, we have gradually realized the terrible and desperate nature of life.
A running theme in Black Mirror is the "digitization of the soul": in "Christmas Special," we can make copies of our souls, torture our souls, and leave them idle for decades. Force him to serve himself; or place the suspect's soul in an endless cycle of loneliness for decades, allowing him to confess everything; in "Black Museum" is also about "digitalizing" the souls of dying people in order to immortalize them, but suffer endless pain. In "Kill the DJ", we can copy our own soul and force it and countless other souls to conduct social experiments countless times to find a partner that really suits us, and save ourselves the process of tossing. The essence of "digitalization of the soul" is actually artificial intelligence.
The basic working principle of artificial intelligence is to let the program constantly learn by itself, improve the state, find a way out, save human beings in the process of tossing their own detours and wasted time, so as to enjoy the wisdom crystallization that artificial intelligence has worked so hard to obtain. For example, the AlphaGo researched by Google, after letting the artificial intelligence obtain the chess records of the Go masters all over the world, we humans force it to play chess with ourselves day and night, endlessly, so as to try to discover the secrets of Go. But for AI, it doesn't know what hard work is and has no concept of time, so we don't feel guilty about torturing AI.
The key to the success of artificial intelligence is,
(1) AI can compete with itself
(2) The processing speed of artificial intelligence is countless times faster than ours
(3) The time concept of artificial intelligence is completely different from ours. One of our minutes could be hundreds of years of artificial intelligence.
This made me suddenly realize that our life is likely to be a very cruel artificial intelligence circle⭕. To ensure that our human potential is unleashed, "God" has endowed us with endless fear and unending greed, and has also created the illusion of free will. To get rid of all kinds of fears and satisfy insatiable greed, we do everything we can to find ways to make our lives better. AI is our slave, and we are all slaves to our own subconscious. For example, all people are mortal, why should we be afraid of this? We need so many necessities, why do we need so much material and money? Fear and greed, which we are endowed with are both utterly absurd and irrational, but the intensity of these two emotions far exceeds that of any other motive. We are at the mercy of our human weaknesses, constantly competing internally to derive the higher wisdom that those who created us need. They can save themselves the toss and detours and enjoy the success.
So can we escape this life-and-death situation? As long as we have the fear of death and emptiness and the greed for other flesh, we will continue to reproduce, keeping enough people competing with each other in this artificial intelligence circle⭕ to produce higher forms of life. wisdom. Even if we want to make up our minds to break through these despairs, like the ending of Fifteen Millions Worth, such breakthroughs themselves will become part of mass cultural consumption, used by the government to become the A catharsis for those who break through but dare not break through. This artificial intelligence circle is so ingeniously designed that it is breathtaking and completely desperate, and the driving force for us to break through this life-and-death relationship itself still comes from our fear and greed.
So what should we do in such a desperate situation? The only way is to tell ourselves, don't be afraid, don't be greedy, let go of obsessions, this is the way of our life. Only in this way can we possibly find relative freedom in life. Nothing we do out of fear or greed will be our true will.
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