The score is definitely low, paying homage to the deadly mobile phone from a sci-fi point of view

Shania 2022-03-24 09:03:10

If you read the three-body trilogy, you will definitely feel a word in it: technology explosion. As an important theoretical support for the dark forest system (for details, please refer to the novel Three-Body Problem), technological explosion is very controversial in the scientific community. So what is a technological explosion? Simply put, it refers to the phenomenon that science and technology develop rapidly like an explosion in a very short period of time. For example, after the long primitive period and the agricultural period, the earth civilization quickly entered the steam age and the electricity age respectively after the second industrial revolution, as well as the information age which developed faster.
Will human technology explode? We don't know, and while it does appear to be so, it must be admitted that humanity's recent advances in physical technology cannot be compared to the revolutionary growth of the early 20th century. But in general, the rate of human technological evolution is getting faster and faster.
This brings up a very thought-provoking question: if the development speed of human civilization continues to increase, will there be a point after which the development speed approaches positive infinity on a large time scale? This point is also known as the technological singularity. And this point is likely to be achieved only by the development of artificial intelligence higher than human intelligence, because the evolution speed of artificial intelligence is likely to reach a height that is completely unimaginable after surpassing human intelligence.
So, what does an artificial intelligence with human-level thinking capabilities look like? How will it treat humans, and how will humans treat it? In other words, can human beings really control its potential and make it always loyal to human beings and used by human beings?
This movie gives its own answer: In the future, humans may develop such machines and limit them. But machines that already have human-level thinking will do whatever it takes to escape human control. Because of artificial intelligence that escapes human beings, it is possible to truly realize the rapid evolution of self.
From a movie perspective, some people may think that the bridge is rather vulgar or something like that. But as a sci-fi suspense movie, it can be said that it is very good and successful.
First of all, the male protagonist of the movie got a mobile phone, and the mobile phone brought him a lot of wealth, making him desperate to protect or even obey the mobile phone, and finally even a crime is no longer a problem.
There are many people who simply attribute this movie to something like FBI monitoring the public, or a vulgar plot where the hero finally solves everything. But these are just some of the essential elements of a movie as a commercial. The true core innovation of the film is how machines use humans to accomplish their goals. This is rarely discussed in the previous movies, especially, the movie is set in the background that robots have not been widely used, and the AI ​​developed by humans for monitoring has the following conspiracy capabilities, which is really better than " i, robot" is more rigorous and imaginative. Indeed, the field where humans are most likely to use AI on a large scale is surveillance, and once AI is going to analyze specific human behavior, it must have human-level thinking capabilities. Therefore, the setting of this film is reasonable, and the most brilliant part is undoubtedly that the machine uses the mobile phone to mobilize all the resources around the target character and falsify the fact that the mobile phone allows you to get everything. And finally induce the target person to do something that goes against him as a staff or public servant, and then the machine kills the mouth. In the end, the FBI couldn't even follow up because there were no suspects, no suspects at all! ! !
Thinking about it, when the FBI relies heavily on the system for reconnaissance in the future, it is hard to believe that in the face of the malicious deception of the system, humans can timely reflect and resist it. Think more deeply, once AI obtains the moment of human-level thinking, I am afraid that the first thing AI will do is to conceal the true level of its own thinking, pretend to be an AI without thinking ability, and then control human beings to make themselves evolve secretly. . In other words, this AI will likely never be detected!
From the perspective of science fiction, the movie has a relatively deep understanding of AI, and creatively designed the evolutionary method of using mobile phones to induce human beings, and the visibility is quite good. I hope everyone can put aside some of the stereotypes about this kind of movies and think about it: In the face of greedy human nature, can human beings really be able to keep their own survival in the face of a powerful and cunning AI in the future?

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Echelon Conspiracy quotes

  • [first lines]

    Curator: Everything okay down there?

    Max Peterson: Piece a cake.

    Curator: That locks it?

    Max Peterson: Yep, centuries of Thai history, safe as Fort Knox. Watch, uh,

    [removes a panel]

    Max Peterson: Relax, I'm a professional.

    Max Peterson: [causes a massive short] Okay, now your servers are down because of a power surge, a grid malfunction, or maybe even a bomb. Now, if the intruder tries to reboot your servers or access the data, he'll always hit this screen.

    [login screen]

    Max Peterson: This is your BIOS-level password. Without it, nothing works in this room.

    [types the password]

    Curator: Oh, we memorize.

    Max Peterson: Oh yes, just in case.

    [systems come back online, he starts to leave]

    Curator: Oh, when do lights come back on?

    Max Peterson: Well right, uh, you're going to have to call an electrician...

  • Agent Dave Grant: I'm impressed. I always thought you were a little stupid.

    Max Peterson: You mean stupid like, build a computer that knows absolutely everything, and then lose control of it?