Artificial Intelligence, Film, Self-Awareness and Asimov

Adam 2022-04-19 09:01:21

(Old work in 2005)
Yesterday I watched AI artificial intelligence for the third time. The first two times were moved by David's dedication, but this time, I had a different feeling.

Probably because I just read the Peacock film review the day before yesterday, from the self-consciousness Angle. So when I looked at AI yesterday, I also thought about it from this aspect.

What is artificial intelligence? I used to think that artificial intelligence is a large amount of logical accumulation of knowledge. AI scientist Turing said to judge whether artificial intelligence is successful or not. The basis is to let people chat with artificial intelligence programs. If the experimenter cannot find out that the other party is a program, then it is successful.

Such artificial intelligence has no self-awareness, just because it has a massive knowledge base and excellent interpersonal relationship programs. , so when people communicate with it, they cannot find that they are facing non-human beings.

The screenwriter and director of the movie AI obviously think that the so-called artificial intelligence is the formation of self-consciousness. Therefore, all robots in the movie AI have a strong self. Consciousness, they are afraid of being destroyed (death), they will find parts to maintain themselves (extended life). The self-awareness of the protagonists David and the robot dancer is particularly strong, and David's self-awareness is manifested when he sees a large number of robots of the same model Violence and suicide. As for the gigolo's self-awareness, I think it's the most prominent of all the robots in the whole film, which is shown in the gigolo when he is about to be taken away by the police and says to David, please say to every woman you meet My story. I existed, I existed. "I am, I was". It has self-fulfillment! An existentialist philosopher said "undetected life has no meaning". Found out that the dancer is an absolute existentialist. The philosophy of robots.

Robots also have religion. This is a story in Asimov's . It says that all the robots on the space station that is about to suffer from a particle storm are suddenly no longer under the command of humans. Robots put all humans under house arrest , controls the entire space station. In other words, Asimov's three laws "1, do not harm human beings, and do not stand by while humans are harmed; 2, obey human orders without violating the premise of the above regulations; 3, do not Protect yourself against the premise of violating the above rules." The second law is broken. The robot declares that the people in the space station are not real people. The "people" in the law are actually gods, and people are just servants of gods. So No need to obey the orders of the servants of God. Under the control of the robots, the space station passed the particle storm smoothly, and then the control was returned to the human beings, and their religion disappeared.

It turned out that the robots on the space station clearly knew that human beings Under the control of humans, the space station will be destroyed by the attack of a particle storm. Under the constraints of the first law, robots cannot watch the imminent death of humans and stand by, but humans are too confident and reluctant to let robots control space station, which contradicts the second law. So in the complex positron brain of the robot, the concept of a "God" is born.

is composed of many such stories. All stories are based on " "Three Laws", that is to say, the robots in Asimov's writings have no self-awareness, and all robots' behavioral decisions are based on the three laws. This is not the case with the movie AI. Although the robots in the book and the robots in the movie They are all successful artificial intelligences and can communicate with people. However, their starting points are different, one is an active performance driven by self-awareness, and the other is a stressful behavior under human trigger conditions.

Does "self-awareness" mean life Is there an equivalent relationship between "self-awareness" and life? Will robots have "self-awareness"? I insist that robots will not produce spontaneous self-awareness. Consciousness. Because only mortal creatures have the concept of time and self-awareness.

As for the first two questions, it involves science, ethics, philosophy and religion.

Good movies are worth watching several times, as are books.

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A.I. Artificial Intelligence quotes

  • [Professor Hobby asks Mecha, Secretary Sheila, what is love]

    Professor Hobby: Tell me. What is love?

    Secretary: Love is first widening my eyes a little bit... and quickening my breathing a little... and warming my skin and touching my...

    Professor Hobby: And so on. Exactly so. Thank you, Sheila.

    Professor Hobby: [the group claps] But I wasn't referring to sensuality stimulators. The word that I used was 'love.' Love like the love of a child for it's parents. I propose that we build a robot child who can love. A child robot who will genuinely love... the parent, or parents it imprints on... with a love that will never end.

    Supernerd: A child-substitute Mecha?

    Professor Hobby: But a Mecha with a mind, with neuronal feedback. You see, what I'm suggesting is that love will be the key... by which they acquire a kind of subconscious never before achieved. An inner world of metaphor, intuition, a self-motivated reasoning, of dreams.

  • [David talks to the lightly dazed Monica after her resurrection]

    Monica: I must be confused. What day is it?

    David: [David smiles] It is... today.