mzzz
Well Known GateFan
It was alright. It's about an inventor guy who makes a robot that is supposedly a great stride towards true A.I. and wants protagonist guy to do a newer version of the Turing test. Robot seeks freedom. That's the plot. Obviously the rest of this will contain spoilers.
Computer scientists have little to no knowledge of neuroscience, human physiology (besides the sex organs as this movie depicts), nor human psychology. So at best, the inventor guy just made an imitator of human emotions in the robot. He didn't create true A.I. He really wanted to determine if this new human could be fooled by the machine's programming. I obviously deduced that the machine is being programmed for mimicking emotions to generate emotion from the blonde protagonist. The programmer guy seemed like too much of a dumbass to have actually programmed human emotion/feelings, only a crude mimicry for the sake of fooling humans. He focused more of extrinsic aspects as opposed to solving intrinsic aspects which is the harder route. He basically just created sexbots. So the ending had less of an effect on me. I sort of just rolled my eyes.
Why did the guy program the machines to desire freedom at all? What kind of technical knowledge did he put into the machine? Lots of hard, computer science based questions could be asked. But this movie opted for something more along the lines of pseudo-psychological as opposed to the hard science as I initially was led to believe. Took me out of the movie a bit. True A.I. will have to be a cooperative effort between neuroscientists, computer scientists, engineers, psychologists, etc. Not one rich douchebag who wants to create realistic sexbots.
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Overall, I'd say you should watch and judge yourself since I tend to be a bit harsher on certain scientific aspects if it's being advertised that way. You might enjoy it for the artistic and psychological aspects of it. If you need more of a selling point, it has Oscar Isaac who's in the new Stars Wars movie.
Computer scientists have little to no knowledge of neuroscience, human physiology (besides the sex organs as this movie depicts), nor human psychology. So at best, the inventor guy just made an imitator of human emotions in the robot. He didn't create true A.I. He really wanted to determine if this new human could be fooled by the machine's programming. I obviously deduced that the machine is being programmed for mimicking emotions to generate emotion from the blonde protagonist. The programmer guy seemed like too much of a dumbass to have actually programmed human emotion/feelings, only a crude mimicry for the sake of fooling humans. He focused more of extrinsic aspects as opposed to solving intrinsic aspects which is the harder route. He basically just created sexbots. So the ending had less of an effect on me. I sort of just rolled my eyes.
Why did the guy program the machines to desire freedom at all? What kind of technical knowledge did he put into the machine? Lots of hard, computer science based questions could be asked. But this movie opted for something more along the lines of pseudo-psychological as opposed to the hard science as I initially was led to believe. Took me out of the movie a bit. True A.I. will have to be a cooperative effort between neuroscientists, computer scientists, engineers, psychologists, etc. Not one rich douchebag who wants to create realistic sexbots.
End SPOILERS.
Overall, I'd say you should watch and judge yourself since I tend to be a bit harsher on certain scientific aspects if it's being advertised that way. You might enjoy it for the artistic and psychological aspects of it. If you need more of a selling point, it has Oscar Isaac who's in the new Stars Wars movie.
