This season's Westworld is a lot worse than the first season. Some episodes are procrastinated and the character creation is particularly weak. Except for Bernard, the other characters are more like single-threaded robots, very face-to-face.
After the awakening of the robot consciousness, the screenwriter seems to have not figured out how to describe the interaction and relationship between AI and humans. The human nature endowed by AI is very superficial and lacks the portrayal of complex human nature, so that the conflicts between AI and humans in this season, Conflict, mutual aid, sacrifice, all seem unnatural and awkward.
Westworld itself is a remake of an old drama from the 1970s, and the AI idea in it also belongs to the 1970s, hoping to make robots self-aware through memory. This path failed in real-world research, and AI research was stagnant for many years until the rise of new generation AI technologies, neural networks and deep learning.
Based on an old and failed theory, it makes it difficult to develop deeper content, which may be the reason why the second season of Westworld seems logically flawed.
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