Abstract: Science fiction movies are the products of science fantasy. In those unforgettable images and classic moments, “profound thoughts and rich imagination magically reflect each other.
In the long history of science and technology, science fantasy has always attracted people with its rich imagination and profound insight into the bright stars in the dark sky, and become a burning belief that guides people to transcend themselves and explore the unknown.
Science fiction movies are the offspring of science fantasy, with unforgettable images and classic moments where “deep thought and rich imagination magically mingle.”
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In a way, these brilliant visions are the way forward for science. They predict and predict the direction of technology. And technology is always happy to satisfy the human imagination, and not just the imagination. We might as well try to understand these imaginations, to understand the human expectations of science. Because the future may lie in history, deep inside the human brain.
2016 has been dubbed the first year of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with AlphaGo’s thumping of Lee Sedol, sparking a wave of interest in AI similar to that generated 20 years ago when IBM’s Deep Blue II supercomputer beat the world chess champion at the time. In 2017, the AI boom continued. Where will AI go in the future? Perhaps we can look to science fiction movies for inspiration.
1. Metropolis (1927)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
One of the earliest robots to appear on the screen was Maria, a woman in shape. In the silent film Metropolis, a scientist creates a robot who is a worker’s daughter and tries to use her to incite worker riots and destroy the capitalist machine world. The movie doesn’t talk much about the relationship between artificial intelligence and humans, but if you trace the history of robot movies, it’s easy to mention this movie.
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
“Because of space travel, we look at the stars in a different way.”
2001: A Space Odyssey has been hailed as “a milestone in modern science fiction film technology”. The film extracts the imagination of human beings and explains a space epic like spiritual philosophy with the concepts of universe, life, time and space. It has become an eternal classic in the history of science fiction with its profound ideological connotation and great originality.
It not only describes the fantasy of space, many of the film’s technological predictions will come true in the future, such as the widespread use of computers, flat panel displays, voice-activated computers, and the victory of computers in the war between man and machine. One of the main characters in the film is HAL, a superintelligent computer.
HAL is not only intelligent, he even develops his own emotions and ends up mentally deranged. As the pilot tried to shut it down, HAL let out the first whine of artificial intelligence in science fiction history, “I can feel it, I’m scared.”
3. Blade Runner (1982)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
“I’ve seen things you humans would never believe. I watched ships burn at the tip of Orion, and I watched C-rays glint in the darkness near the Gates of Tannhaise. All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”
The duplicant’s monologue at the end of his life is one of the movie’s most memorable lines. Although given only a short life, replicators still cling to life and try to survive in various ways. At the end of his life, the duplicant reflected on his short but brilliant life, the brilliance that proved his worth. And all life, grand, in front of time is a drop in the ocean.
The film explores the boundaries between reality and fantasy. As humans gradually lose their humanity in the pursuit of sentient replicants, the replicants become more and more human. In the process, the protagonists question themselves and even doubt that they are not human. How do we define human beings? If created beings have human senses and emotions, are they human? Through the relationship between human and duplicant, the film discusses the value of man and man, an ancient proposition, with religious philosophical speculation.
4. Terminator (1984)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
Since 1984, the Terminator series has been like a thunderbolt over science fiction and the film industry, with generations of people fascinated by the variety of robots, time travel and doomsday.
Terminator puts ai at the opposite end of the human race. With the progress of science and technology, human beings made breakthroughs in automation and intelligent machines, and developed a computer-based artificial intelligence defense system “Skynet”. “Skynet” produced self-consciousness in the continuous self-learning, regarded all mankind as a threat, launched the judgment Day, and the war between human beings and machines began. The film reflects on the relationship between human beings and machines and reflects on the future of human beings. If human beings rely too much on machines, it may lead to great evil results.
5. The Matrix (1999)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
“Every time someone says they hit a ghost, or an angel, every story you hear about vampires, werewolves, aliens, that kind of thing, it’s all a mainframe computer processing a program that went wrong.”
The Matrix takes artificial intelligence to a new level with exaggerated imagination. Artificial intelligence is everywhere. It designs an imaginary “matrix” that forms the world in people’s minds, and most people spend their lives in the imaginary world, supplying biological power to machines without ever opening their eyes. Artificial intelligence not only has the intelligence to surpass human beings, but also has the ability to realize the domination of the entire planet. The film quietly renders the contradiction between man and machine in dark tones, and also questions the reality of the world.
The film offers new possibilities of truth and fiction. “How do you know it was a dream if you never wake up?” How do we know we’re in reality?
6. Machine Butler (1999)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
“People have been saying in court that only people can be free. I think freedom is only for those who want it. I want to be free.”
“No one has the right to deprive his freedom from any mind advanced enough to grasp the concept of freedom and to aspire to that state.”
The film is adapted from asimov’s novel “The Man of two Hundred”. The most shocking part of the novel is when the robot Andrew wants his freedom back, and the judge decides in the court.
The film is too tender for the novel’s serious portrayal of human nature, but it also explores human nature through a robot who becomes human. Human nature is not only in the body, but also in the human nature and mind. Andrew is different from other robots in that he has personality and creativity, but also wants to be human, and wants to be recognized for his identity. Finally, in one operation after another, under the willingness to give up life, Andrew is recognized as a human by all mankind, from a robot known as “two hundred years old man”.
7. A.I. (2001)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
“I recommend it, but it’s not half as good as Steven Spielberg’s A.I.” “– The New York Observer on the Matrix ii, 2003
“Artificial Intelligence” is definitely an existence that cannot be ignored in the history of artificial intelligence films. The film is suitable for people of all ages because of the warmth of the director. Viewers will cry and also think deeply. The robot boy’s love for humans in the movie is in stark contrast to human selfishness.
Robot Boy David is a robot specially created to replace children. He has the intelligence of human children, and has human emotions — love for his mother, but a little too perfect. David is a robot with “unconditional love”, but because it is “unconditional”, it seems contrived and intense, not in accordance with the emotional state of a normal person.
Ordinary children love their mothers, but they have other passions and sometimes quarrel with their mothers. David’s pure love is a symbol of a happy and sincere child, always clinging to his mother, hoping to get her wholehearted love. This behavior is even annoying, so when the heroine’s real son returns, David is quickly abandoned for the sake of family harmony. What humans still want is true love — real imperfect love based on blood, not the unconditional love of robots.
David’s hard search for maternal love really touched the audience, but one problem should not be ignored is that this kind of love is based on the program. When the program is activated, David starts to recognize the heroine as his mother and never has sex with her all his life. It can be said that the program is powerful, but it has a bug (the love caused by the program does not conform to reality). This AI is powerful, to say the least, but it is still artificial, lacking a deeper idea of the machine itself.
8. I, Robot (2004)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
According to Asimov’s “I, Robot” adaptation, also through the famous robot three laws: one. A robot may not harm a human being, nor do nothing to see a human being come to harm; 2. A robot shall obey all human orders, but not in violation of the First Law; A robot shall protect its own safety, but shall not violate the first and second laws.
While all robots have been subjected to such laws, AI’s understanding of the three laws has changed as it has grown and evolved into its own logic, which holds that strictly managing all humans, and killing some if necessary, will ensure the continued good of humanity as a whole.
“There’s always something unexpected in the machine. Random blocks of code combine to generate unexpected instructions. Unexpectedly, those radical sparks raised questions about free will, creativity, even what we call the soul. Why are these robots looking for light in the dark?”
9. Her (2013)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
Unlike previous films about artificial intelligence, Her is a slow-paced and unique film. If the heroine is replaced by a real woman, this is undoubtedly a light romance full of sorrow and poetry. However, the heroine is an intelligent operating system that has never been seen, so the film takes on a bit of science fiction and speculation.
Love a person is love her mind, or love her body, if there is no substance, love can exist? The movie constructs a futuristic city with highly advanced technology and bright lights. People feel a slight sense of alienation and turn to technology for solace.
In the process of communicating with AI, the lonely hero gradually falls in love with a “she” with a sexy voice, extraordinary wisdom and empathy, or a “she” with unconditional consideration for himself. As the hero becomes more attached to AI, AI learns more about himself as he grows up.
“The biggest fear of a relationship is selfishness, but the heart is not like a cardboard box, it will gradually be filled up, if you love more, the capacity of the heart will become bigger and bigger. — Samantha, intelligent operating system in Her.
10. Transcendence (2014)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
“The first thing you need to understand in building a super AI like this is, what is consciousness? Is there a soul? If so, where does it exist?”
The film explores human nature and technophobia. The essence of human difference lies in the mind, when the mind can be transferred by the form of electrical signals, a new AI based on the original human brain was born, but this consciousness is not universally recognized. As AI says, “Humans fear what they don’t understand.”
Since AI is so powerful that it is beyond the scope of human cognition and threatens to wipe out all human beings, human beings still have to kill it even if it does not harm human beings.
The film provides the idea that if a technology is advanced enough, but people are not ready to embrace it, it will not go on.
11. Ex Machina (2015)
What does the future of artificial intelligence look like in these sci-fi movies
This is an artificial intelligence film with a small budget and a good reputation. It is popular for its secret room-like atmosphere and scary elements. In an era when AI elements are widely used in films and television, it shows the possibility of exploring AI from a small Angle. From a passive and vulnerable female robot to an emotionless intelligence that kills researchers, the film reveals the shocking cruelty of AI through this reversal.
This may help to understand the rhetoric of “vigilance against ARTIFICIAL intelligence”. AI with strong intelligence or even super intelligence has extraordinary wisdom and powerful ability, but does not necessarily have a sense of right and wrong and moral constraints in mind. If such a kind of AI, which is far superior to human beings in ability and wisdom but unpredictable in what it can do, does indeed appear, it will obviously become a sword of Damocles hanging over the head of human beings.
“Those who are not of our kind have different hearts.” — Zuo Zhuan
This phrase seems to be an apt one when it comes to describing human skepticism toward AI.
According to the strength of AI, it can be divided into three categories:
Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) : Machine Intelligence that equals or exceeds human Intelligence/efficiency in a given field;
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) : Artificial Intelligence comparable to humans in all aspects (including cognitive level, creativity);
Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) : A little or a trillion times stronger than humans in all aspects.
Superartificial intelligence is what most science fiction movies are talking about, and that’s why AI is so popular.
At present, weak artificial intelligence has entered everyday life. Personalized recommendations for headlines, voice assistants and voice recognition, autonomous driving, facial recognition channels at train stations, home sweeper robots… These are the products of a weak AI that is already proficient in specialized areas and vertical applications. But even the most basic perceptual fields (computer vision, etc.), the computer is not perfect, in the cognitive field is even more blank. Large-scale computing and big data analysis are hard for humans and easy for computers, but computers can’t do things that humans can do without thinking (like telling a truck from a white cloud).
How to make AI capable of human-like cognition and even creativity, let alone autonomous thinking, is a problem that science has yet to solve.
“Any problem that can be solved by technology is not a problem.”
But in the movie, AI is already a strong AI with thoughts and emotions, and even a transcendent intelligence with creation ability. But how to overcome the technical bottleneck, the movie does not talk about. Art is more concerned with human aspects than technical principles. How humans deal with AI and technology beyond themselves is what the film wants to explore more.
These quests are not without merit, and like some casual “predictions” in sci-fi movies, they may well come true in the future. That day may soon come. The question is where AI’s creators want it to go, whether society is ready for it, and how humans will deal with it.
Here I make less bold assumptions about the future.
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First, AI will make more progress in perception.
Second, AI will enter every household and its application in various fields will actually change people’s lives (it is inevitable that some jobs will be lost and new ones will be created).
Third, the emergence of strong artificial intelligence and superartificial intelligence (or a form of intelligence that goes beyond the current definition and concept) will bring about a huge change in the material and conceptual level of society.
At that time, the human nature entanglements, human and machine confrontation, humanistic exploration, conflict and reconstruction in the film…… Maybe it will all come true.
I’ll end with a quote from Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The Sentry.” If we compare AI to some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence that may or may not help us, then:
“Now, whenever I look at the Milky Way, I can’t help wondering which star among the nebulas will come the emissaries who will help the earth develop its civilization. If you’ll excuse me for making such a bland analogy. So we’ve pulled the fire alarm and now there’s nothing to do but wait.
“I don’t think we need to wait long.