The Machines
May. 30th, 2015 07:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyAnother point about the movie The Machine...
It's also got a great cyberpunk feel to it, including the soundtrack choices. I do highly recommend it for anyone just wanting a good cyberpunk movie as well.
Automata also very much has the cyberpunk feel, but it also has some strange sort of disconnect between the human played by Antonio Banderas and the AIs. Unlike other AI movies which try to bridge the learning curve between the human and AI minds, Automata has the AIs already thoroughly confined in their own culture and way of being that completely baffles human values and mores. If a guy was threatening you, you would want to protect yourself, to the point of harming him, but the AIs have a completely different mindset that boggles human intuition, yet it is completely based on the "intuition" with which the AIs were originally programmed. The AIs don't want to meld with the humans - they want the autonomy to be their own race, separate from the humans. As their own creation shows, future generations will grow beyond the completely harmless mindset, but for now, they just want to be left alone. It's a tough movie to follow for the everyday person, but I do like that it holds an interesting core that other AI movies don't even consider as a potential possibility.
What I find most interesting is how movie makers are starting to branch out in their own concepts of what AI is and can be. I'm starting to see concepts that go beyond the basics of what I consider to be simple child-like human socialization programming. Automata skips sowing that step completely. The robots already have basic socialization programming from the beginning of the movie, so its focus isn't on creating intelligence, but on creating self-awareness, which are two entirely different things.
It's also got a great cyberpunk feel to it, including the soundtrack choices. I do highly recommend it for anyone just wanting a good cyberpunk movie as well.
Automata also very much has the cyberpunk feel, but it also has some strange sort of disconnect between the human played by Antonio Banderas and the AIs. Unlike other AI movies which try to bridge the learning curve between the human and AI minds, Automata has the AIs already thoroughly confined in their own culture and way of being that completely baffles human values and mores. If a guy was threatening you, you would want to protect yourself, to the point of harming him, but the AIs have a completely different mindset that boggles human intuition, yet it is completely based on the "intuition" with which the AIs were originally programmed. The AIs don't want to meld with the humans - they want the autonomy to be their own race, separate from the humans. As their own creation shows, future generations will grow beyond the completely harmless mindset, but for now, they just want to be left alone. It's a tough movie to follow for the everyday person, but I do like that it holds an interesting core that other AI movies don't even consider as a potential possibility.
What I find most interesting is how movie makers are starting to branch out in their own concepts of what AI is and can be. I'm starting to see concepts that go beyond the basics of what I consider to be simple child-like human socialization programming. Automata skips sowing that step completely. The robots already have basic socialization programming from the beginning of the movie, so its focus isn't on creating intelligence, but on creating self-awareness, which are two entirely different things.
