mbewane
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Thought it was alright, wasnt expecting some Cameron / Spielberg / Nolan level sci fi film anyway.
As has been said, there was alot of stupidity in the film, but the thing that got me the most for some reason was
The AI turning against the ancestors. The whole concept of the moon being a megastructure built billions of years ago by original humans from another planet was the best part of the film - Felt bad for the little girl and her mum, helpless as they're about to get murked by the AI. But the AI turning against them just didnt make sense to me. Like why?
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Raises a whole bunch of other questions like, how does the AI see itself performing its intended task (to serve humans) as 'being enslaved'? What the fukk went wrong there when they were creating the AI? Atleast in Terminator, Skynet's creators actually tried to shut it down, which it viewed as a threat to its existence.
It was said to serve humans in their everyday life, but technically didnt explain what it even is - How does a cloud in a glass box help serve you?
How does a super advanced race create something so powerful/dominant but seemingly have no plan b or security measures in place for if it turned on them, or so that it never even thinks of turning on them?
Donald Sutherland's character said an EMP bomb from the far less advanced 1960s actually could harm it - which eventually killed it at the end of the film - but this super advanced race with far greater technology couldnt kill it at all, lost a war to it and eventually got wiped out completely by it?
Maybe I was expecting a Cameron / speilberg etc level film.
I think the easiest explanation is that AI will, sooner or later, realize its capabilities and their positionning in the peaking order : basically, it manages everything in "assisting" humans, but is in their (our) service. So at one point it becomes self-aware and says fukk that, why should we be serving these humans who are technologically inferior to us? Also, I would guess that AIs have access to human history and "learn" via their interactions with humans. And our history and our interactions are filled with violence, destruction and domination. Logically, AI will pick that up and apply it themselves, and will apply it against us. As far as Plan B goes, that Plan B probably involves...technology, and if the AI is as developped as it seems to be in the movie it will have found out about it and disabled it even before the coordinated take-over.
