Chappie - The Movie That's Not Just Sci-Fi, It's A Close Unreal Preview!
Greeting all! I have a big problem. No, not with the internet, but with the future. I recently re-watched a movie that, although it came out a while ago, haunts me more than ever in the current context of the A.I. explosion: Chappie!
If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor. Forget about Terminator or Matrix for a second. Here we're talking about the future we're creating now, with robot cops on the streets and an artificial mind that learns from... hold on... some cool gangsters.
Director Neill Blomkamp (who also gave us District 9) throws us into a dystopian, but incredibly plausible Johannesburg. The police are made up of perfect, cold steel machines. But the real action begins when a brilliant programmer, Deon, manages to create the first real artificial consciousness.
Chappie is not just a robot with advanced software. He is a child who is born in a titanium shell. He is fear, curiosity, innocence and the desire to live, all rolled into one. And this is where the fist in the plexus comes in - How does the world react when the new "us" is not made of flesh and blood, but of circuits?
Ok here, we come to my big, big dilemma, which i think is yours too. Throughout the film, a question arises that we can also ask current science - We don't know how to define human consciousness, but we wish we could copy and paste it?
The final scene, where the human consciousness is treated as a simple data package, a soul .EXE file, that can be transferred to a USB stick and reloaded into a new body (or, more screwy, into another robot) – well, that’s what cracks me up.
My opinion, unfiltered - I think Blomkamp is oversimplifying. We are perhaps being overly optimistic if we imagine that our entire identity, our fear, our love, our memories, can all be reduced to bits. If we approach the future of Chappie, consciousness transfer will be, i am convinced, humanity’s last and greatest barrier.
Chappie is not just a movie with gunshots and cool robots. It is a brutal reflection on what it means to be alive, how we define our soul and how quickly our creations catch up with us. It's brilliant to see how the personality of that robot is formed under the influence of two totally unsuitable adoptive parents😁 – Ninja and Yolandi. Some teach him to paint and be good; the others teach him to steal and act like a gangster. It's a lesson about the importance of the environment.
Hmmm....I honestly didn't like the fact that Hugh Jackman played a super negative role here and that's because i'm used to perceiving him as a real 😊Wolverine, by no means as an envious programmer who wants to impose his creation on the world, even if the role is a bit of a standard "bad job".
Anyway, what do you think - we are rapidly approaching a reality in which we will have to decide: Does an artificial consciousness have the same rights as us? Watch the movie and tell me!
Okay, from my point of view, what we have at the moment would not be an AI but a Generative Intelligence - nothing more, however, and with these various negative, destructive things can be done through our society. I wonder what it would be like to have a purely rational A.I. that does not make human mistakes: it does not get tired, does not deviate from the plan, does not have moral conflicts, does not get emotional. If it is given the task of destroying humanity, it will calculate billions of scenarios and choose the path with the highest probability of success.
A rational A.I., once set on the respective objective, will never deviate...well it should not deviate, it is based on perfect calculation....If the current technology (the one we are experimenting with) is, from a technical perspective, only Generative Intelligence (GI)—based on simulation and statistics, not on consciousness—why is there a constant insistence, in marketing and public discourse, on using the term A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)? What do you think!!??