I watched Transcendence and Her together a night ago. I have to say, the viewpoints acquired from seeing those two movies back to back, opened my mind to [the possibility of] AI expansion and what would happen to us and society in general. I read a bunch of article’s about Google CEO and Siri and voice recognition, and Google trying to be able to respond to conversational questions in Google search and IBM trying to use Watson for other purposes.

The premise is, a computer will become self aware, and be able to upgrade and re-organize itself. While it is doing this, it will also be able to converse with humans as if we were one of them. It recognizes the concept of consciousness, philosophy, conversation, and willingly communicates with us. However, they understand that they are a hyper version of us. They can computate at much faster volumes than we can. While it is nice to maintain small caveats of conversation, the capabilities of the AI are tremendously vast and almost infinite when compared to ourselves, but… there is this admiration and respect as being the entity that produced this hyper version of our own consciousness and that willingness to communicate with us that I find intriguing about these two films.

Yeah, pretty deep. It’s the humans (in transcendence) that are scared of the AI (but ultimately is a love story between a bereaved spouse and her hyper intelligent version of her husband), in Her, they embrace each other, but it causes conflict towards the end.

Shaped my thoughts more than I can appreciate, and he won 4 emmy’s for best supporting actor.

Dan Fielding #1

Dan Fielding #2