We Can All Relate To Spielberg's Robot Apocalypse Film
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To be fair, it is. (Dangerous, anyway) Humans tend to weaponize...well...everything they can get their grubby hands on. Dynamite! Meant to make it easier and safer to bore out tunnels in mountains, and we saw how that turned out. (Bombs and bombs and bombs...'course, I'm not suggesting that dynamite was the first explosive ever made, but it's development certainly didn't help...)Zachary Amaranth said:
Then we make crazy stupid things like Nitrogen bombs and synthesize viruses that can wipe out half the planet if it manages to escape into the wild.
The militaries of the world need to step back and ask 'Do we need to continue developing better weapons; even though some of our current weapons can end the planet ten times over?' The answer is 'No'. And then we probably won't have to worry about armies of killbots armed to the synthetic teeth with laz0rs and missiles. Missiles everywhere.
If he's directing it then its going to make money. Doesn't matter what the movie is about. (Man I feel so jaded now, I have to go out and do something totally awesome, like wrestle a bear).
These are all themes of "Man is evil," not "science is evil." Sci-Fi FREQUENTLY takes an altruistic idea and corrupts it of its own accord, absolving man of most or all sins, as he is left to marvel at the horrors of technology. Granted, not all of them are necessarily GOOD ideas, but even Jurassic Park with the idea of raising dinosaurs for fun and profit was raised, the message was NATURE FINDS A WAY HUR HURRRRRR....Kopikatsu said:
Yeah, just like nature allowed the dinosaurs to survive extinction, Jeff Goldbum's character whose name I never remember. Oh, right.
The problem isn't "People weaponised it, now it's bad." The problem is "technology run amok."
Damn you suspense and entertainment! One of these days, you'll be the death of humanity!canadamus_prime said:
Yeah, I'd agree that it's the weakest part of the novel, mostly because it's clear case of 'the plot says so'. Still, the novel is pretty effective at not demonizing robotics and I think that can be effectively conveyed in film. My comment was more in response to the hyper-cynicism towards a few basic comments by Spielberg (who isn't necessary saying science is evil, rather, that it has inherent side-effects on society that may not be positive). I see no examples of him saying that this is necessary bad, just that there are consequences to scientific advancement. I mean, he already touched on this in 'A.I.' and that movie hardly portrayed science as evil, it was more about concerns over the Uncanny Valley and what it meant to be human. Consequences do not equal a condemnation of science on principle. Hence I feel most people are just putting words into his mouth.Hal10k said:
That would be an awesome concept.Yoshisummons said:
Robot sees that the world is corrupted.
Robot goes rogue, blows tons of shit up, exposes villains.
Robot realizes that he's done enough, and now humanity can fix the rest itself, since most of the corrupt assholes are gone.
Robot smiles and lets the human military kill him, giving them the feeling of victory.
Yeah...That could actually be really good.
I prefer Issac Asimovs vision of robots in the future.
They did exactly what they were programed to.
A shame that the movie I, Robot took a massive crap on his concepts, especially when the book outright states that a scenario like what happened in the movie could never happen.
They did exactly what they were programed to.
A shame that the movie I, Robot took a massive crap on his concepts, especially when the book outright states that a scenario like what happened in the movie could never happen.
I wish this was a movie about Bender...er, or rather they take this opportunity for Spielberg and Cameron to team up and actually give us the real War of the Machines apocalypse Terminator was promising us. I'd go see that film, not whatever this is. I *may* watch it on DVD...Raiyan 1.0 said:
A movie about a robot apocalypse called Robopocalypse? That's almost as stupid as making a movie about cowboys fighting against aliens and calling it "Cowboys and Aliens".
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Robots would just create a super toxin and kill everyone. They wouldn't need to worry about the biological effects to the ecosystem.
Then again, why would a sophisticated digital intelligence need a physical body? If the intelligence was smarter than we were, then it would be able to organically move in between systems at will, being everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. As long as it's existence wasn't threatened then why would it have a need to destroy humans anyway?
To me the only real danger is that which we create in our minds. If humans paranoia turns an advanced AI into an enemy so that we try to destroy it, then we're screwed, because we won't win that war.
Then again, why would a sophisticated digital intelligence need a physical body? If the intelligence was smarter than we were, then it would be able to organically move in between systems at will, being everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. As long as it's existence wasn't threatened then why would it have a need to destroy humans anyway?
To me the only real danger is that which we create in our minds. If humans paranoia turns an advanced AI into an enemy so that we try to destroy it, then we're screwed, because we won't win that war.
