The plot of the movie itself is actually quite touching, but I don't want to talk about the above plot aspects. Only talk about some of the most deeply felt points.
But I still have to say that the atmosphere, scenes, and pictures of the whole film of "Artificial Intelligence" reveal a strong sense of art. Especially the part where David was at the bottom of the ocean and ended up being frozen to the bottom of the ocean. Fully demonstrated Spielberg's skills.
In the world after 2000, human beings have long since perished, but AI, a human creation, has continued and developed a higher technological civilization. Perhaps the early AI is indeed as mentioned earlier in the plot: AI has no desires and no dreams. However, AI after 2000 has become very "human", very gentle and friendly, although the shape is quite post-modern. And the forever little boy robot has become "the eternal witness of human ingenuity". I don't know if anyone remembers Joe the dancer robot who shouted "I exist" before being taken away, but maybe David does.
The AI that can sew the teddy bear by himself is good to use the hair of David's mother as the material for cloning and restoration. However, the technology is also limited. In the play, the postmodern AI said to David that although time and space may contain all the information of a person, once a person's time and space trajectory has been used, it cannot be used again, so the cloned and resurrected humans will fall asleep. When his consciousness slips into the abyss, he never wakes up again and dies.
This sentence is very interesting. At the time, I had two kinds of ideas. One is, assuming that a person's mind is regarded as an unknown elementary particle, then in the entire space-time, this particle has only a given world line, and it is impossible to bluntly put the other parts of a particle independent of space-time in time. Translate on the axis without changing some other condition. The second way of thinking is that if the human spirit is a kind of information, then after the person dies, maybe the information will return to the entire universe and spread (assuming your consciousness is a certain wave packet, it is limited when you are alive) In the neural network of your brain, after you die, it loses this limitation, and does not disappear out of thin air, then the information contained in this wave packet may diffuse into the universe), and once it diffuses and the environment produces After entanglement, it is almost impossible to recollect it completely to make it the same as before.
In fact, this is an interesting topic. To ask if this is really the case, perhaps we must go back to the cliché of what is the nature of consciousness and spirit. The dualist view has long been out of the mainstream. But what is interesting is that in recent years, from my personal point of view, there has been a tendency in the field of physics and natural science to seek information as the source of the world, and space-time, matter, energy, and various interactions may be An "emergence" that arises from some (quantum) entanglement between information and information. From verlinder's paper discussing that gravity is a kind of information entropy force, to some recent researches that time is the emergence of quantum entanglement, to the recent paper that says that the "arrow of time" is irreversible because of the diffusion of quantum entanglement, etc., Can vaguely feel this direction.
And human consciousness is naturally information under an entangled structure. I personally have a vague feeling that ideas in this direction may be able to link black holes, gravity, quantum mechanics, and even some philosophical questions that have puzzled people for a long time to provide an answer, although this feeling cannot be detailed in words. The narrative is clear. But I think it's a very noteworthy and interesting line of thought.
Back to movies. In any case, after 2000, in some dreamlike space and time, David and his mother had the happiest, most beautiful ordinary day.
Let's talk about robots and human nature. Not to mention that David, who is almost like a human boy, even if it is just the post-modern AI after 2000 in the play, gives people the feeling of being very "human" (although maybe it is only the good side of human nature), and Not at all like acting under cold procedures and instructions. So, it's the same question that has been asked countless times: "What is the difference and boundary between robots and humans?". Few people have answered this question further than the Turing Test, and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics also bypassed this problem and directly drew the line in the form of canons and commandments. Of course I can't give a definite answer either.
Pinocchio is a very good symbol for David. David kept saying "I'm not a puppet, I'm not a robot. I don't want to be a puppet, I don't want to be a robot, I want to be a human". The reason is very simple, because it seems that everyone believes that only human beings have "love" and can "love and be loved", and he just wants to be more "loved" by his mother. How can a robot become human? To answer this question, however, one must answer the previous question first. But no one knows the answer to the question, not even Fairy Lan.
But is it really only human beings who can "love"? Produced by Dr. David and his team, the Blue Fairy is interpreted as a "human fantasy of the impossible". He said that this may be the greatest flaw of the human species, or perhaps the greatest talent of the human species. It is precisely because of this that human beings have the ability to imagine and chase dreams, to create something that does not exist, or to create something similar to replace it. Humans have desires, and humans have dreams. But who would dare to say that David's desire to be loved by his mother and become a human being is not a desire and a dream? Who dares to say that David really doesn't understand "love"?
Perhaps, human emotions are the information and wave packets constructed by the current in the neural network, and the emotion of the robot is the information and wave packets constructed by the current in the electronic chip network. The only difference between them is "material", "medium" or "carrier" different. Just as the car on the highway and the car on the country dirt road are both cars, and the copper key and the iron key are both keys, just thinking about it this way, if the copper key refuses to admit and accept the view that "the iron key is the copper key" I can't argue with that (laughs).
In fact, discussing this topic suddenly reminded me of "Alice in the Rain". So to borrow a sentence---
"Is the kingdom of human beings adjacent to the kingdom of robots?"
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