A little about “superiority”. Dismantication of the film. Thoughts about artificial intelligence and so on.

The dominance of military science fiction The taste for easy Sci-Fi. This is really so, t.To. Over the past few years, the interest of the masses in this genre is declining. Delivered films with a good scientific base are replaced by brothers Action And Marketing. Is it bad or not to judge you. Personally, I miss the times of “Star Gate”, “Babylon”, “Star Way”, “Back to the Future” and other similar films. Of course, there are worthy films with a raid of science fiction or its explicit manifestation, even now, whether: “source code” or “beginning”, “line of the future” or “district No. 9”, but the total absorption of this subject is currently very, very much inferior to the times of dawn and sunset of the space race.
Science fiction. What is this genre so good and what does it do truly special? The fact is that in addition to visual satisfaction with graphic lotions that ordinary combat fiction can be full, Sci-Fi focuses on a more detailed description of technologies, discoveries, the course of history and other things, as well as the influence of all these aspects on society and personality. T.e. Standard fiction, with all its technologies or unearthly races, is a complement or a framing to history, while in SCI-Fi technology becomes part of this story and have not only general descriptions “how and from what they are made”. Fiction itself gives excellent maneuvers for fresh ideas, graphic presentation, emancipation in the plot and entertainment. SCI-Fi also imposes some restrictions, because its skeleton is the standard laws of physics, chemistry, linguistics, and so on, at least partially familiar to us. Reasonable assumptions in these points and makes a scientific with an admixture of a fantastic … You can even say futuristic, but futurism is not always Sci-Fi. You can calmly manipulate the dimensions of science and fiction, creating a “soft” or “light” Sci-Fi, which has slightly less scientific restrictions, but still is still quite tangible and logical;or completely hit the details, weaving for years the “heavy” Sci-Fi, which is very logical, consistent, justified and actually is a narrative of technology.
Regardless of the severity of science fiction, she has one distinctive feature because of which, personally, I think this genre is magnificent. This is a desire to learn.

Let’s start with the fact.
In the late 60s, 70X began American youth, a scientific fever swept. As many nerds as appeared in those years, the light has never seen. Hundreds of thousands of teenagers, as well as people up to 30 and sometimes above 30 years, began to get carried away with cosmos. Yes, you might think that this was preceded by the space race of the superpower, however, the “star path” was the main driving force in raising many eyes to the sky to the sky.

In fact, this series became a contribution not only to American culture, but also to the world as a whole. People wanted to become astronauts, work on large cosmic projects, strive for an unknown in science and technique, not because of a sense of duty to the country, ephemeral desire to become famous or first to get out in the space race, but because they were shown how rich their world can be if they can become one of the crew of the Enterprise and will be spent together and advanced science for this, far for this, far for this, far for this, far for this.so that at least in the future, for their descendants, there was such an opportunity. This is truly a property for humanity, which was not forgotten, but was slightly spoiled, let’s say, a casual version in the alternative reality of that universe.
The abundance of data, as practice has shown, makes a person comprehend what is happening around him, and when it is still filed quite beautifully, a person has no choice how to take up textbooks. Of course, not only the “star path” became the likeness of a scientific flu, transmitted by visual. Jules Verne, Conan Doyle and the like, at one time wrote the most difficult science fiction. Their stories were full of details, discoveries, facts and it seemed that you read the manual for a submarine or leaf through the atlas, and not enjoy “20,000 lies under water”.

In the end, science fiction is, first of all, the actually complete lack of fairy tale, mysticism and miracles.
It is worth noting that some fantastic works, such as “Star Wars”, are essentially not Sci-Fi as part of the film, but universes developed both due to fans and developers, can be completely attributed to scientific, though “strength” spoils everything.

Why am I all. The fact is that now the conversation will go about the light Sci-Fi, namely, the recently released film, the debut of the former fragmentation operator, now director, Wally Pfister, called “Excellence”. All that was written above, in fact, reflects the foundation of my vision on which I will rely on the review of this film.

I cried with disappointment when I read the reviews casino Yummy Wins review of this film, on fairly famous sites, after watching this film. How much people have already baked by combat fiction, that a light sci-fi with a rather deep meaning causes drowsiness. We will talk about claims in a separate spoiler with a detailed description of the most idiotic nit -dodiks.

Together with Nolan, he went through all the Batmen, showing himself on the best operator side. I’m not worried at all, to be honest, about which director will take up a particular project. Well, I don’t think this topic is quite important, because even the most famous of that caste had a chopper. The film is important. Completely. However, here it is worth highlighting the Pfister for a good, albeit not complete setting of the script, finished back in 2011 by Jack Paglen. This script was included in some cool list of unrealized scrolls. With the light hand of my foreign acquaintance, I realized where not critical assumptions appeared in the film. Having gathered the main parts together, the Pfister debuted more than worthy. One thing that he was not afraid to make that rare move when the film begins from the end, gives him in absentia part of my respect.
The selection of actors also pleased.
Depp perfect for his role. No one would, I am completely sure of this, would not play so vaguely artificial intelligence as it is. The same sparrow was a rather dark horse. In general, the whole theme of the film is spinning around uncertainty.
At first, of course, I thought that it was a good PR move, put an actor of a similar value on this role. Then he looked at the list of candidates and realized that the choice fell on this handsome man not because of his achievements, but because of a rare cunning grin, the ability to be mysterious, which was required by his role. The fact is that in the film, as you noticed by trailer, he plays the role of the scientist and his digitized mind. Many noticed that in fact Johnny in the film as an actor almost does not play visually. After his hero is digitized, he does not become secondary, he becomes a machine. It is rarely visible on the screen, if it is shown, then only in the form of a digital bust with a cunning mug. But even this does not prevent him from playing the role, even if she becomes some kind of “flying” like ether. In general, he plays quite interestingly. Many began to compare the performance of the protagonist in the film with Jobs’s performances, and this was supposedly bored when a person is embarrassed to go on stage and begins to talk about his brainchild with love and care. In fact, Will, the role of Depp plays, like any scientist, a person locked in his world with his fears and dislike of re-prove something for money for money. A baggy costume, drooping head, a crooked tie – all this always pursues such people, because it doesn’t matter to them, but here they make them dress and praise what can be saved in essence.
Although, this is a controversial moment. We will discuss further.

Rebecca Hall. In this film, at the very beginning, for some reason I confused it with Johansson. Then I realized that the boobs are not the same. Having recovered from embarrassment, I watched the real wife of the scientist. Whoever says, but the wives of the people of science, and indeed passionate about people in life, these are mainly women with titanic nerves, reserves of patience and love. But here of course she herself is a scientist, but not a simple, real cryptograph, logician and programmer. On a full -fledged quantum computer with her husband, they work on creating artificial intelligence. The work has already been almost completed, it remains to collect all the information and algorithms received from other laboratories and load them into the process. Когда Уилла стреляют и отравляют изотопами его кровь, женушка бросается на поиски хоть какого-нибудь средства на спасение его личности. He stumbles upon experiments on digitizing the mind of monkey and without any delay decides to recreate the process on the human mind on the basis of ready-made virtual intelligence. A crazy woman, with a dying painful death, a beloved husband in her arms is capable of a lot, even to write an active digitalization algorithm. The madness of this woman will bring her to ..

It is also worth noting Paul Bettani (the voice acting of Jarvis in an iron man). I love this actor from dating in the “Last Knight”. Here I did not expect to see him, but he fit into his role quite well. The scientist rushing from extreme to the extreme, saying that, in principle, AI is scary, but he can do nothing with his emotions T.To. His friend is working on a grandiose project. Probably many faced the fact that relatives sometimes come in the wrong direction, crossing the edges of your not condemnation. In such cases, it has to become a certain lust and a guide (or a spatula) in order to at least protect an dear person and prevent him from applying even more mistakes. Even if Max condemned the actions of Will, but he also, not wanting to lose him, took up the development of the source code of the digitization program. Such friends are always needed as for me. Further – more.

Then I will not voice those who still starred in this film, except perhaps Morgan Freeman.
This person who loving space is hungry to knowledge, now just intensified in such projects. Who did not know, he has his own series of documentaries based on Discovery “Through space and time with Morgan Freeman”. A cool thing, quite interesting and more complete than the average Discovery film. If anyone needs to argue on the topic of quantum mechanics, string theory, astrophysics, astrobiology, etc.D. in a rather mundane channel, so it’s with Morgan. In this film, he is given the role of the head of one of the laboratories, where having lost his people as a result of terrorist activity, he remains alone and joins the general project. He, like many, is afraid that the digitization of the mind of Will will lead to his disappearance as a person, because the base then from virtual intellect can absorb the mind and create something more terrible. He will play 100%, as he always did it. Perhaps his roles are quite easy, but their beat has always been on top. This old man also starred in another Sci-Fi film: “Lucy”, which also comes out this year, only there will be more action in it, although there are hints of science fiction.

Now the film itself. I liked him, and leaving a good mark in the shower. Personally, I did not expect, and the film itself did not position myself so, globalness. Even my half -wrapping girl watched him with pleasure at one in the morning, and approving reviews from people were heard from the back rows, which would seem far from such topics about a good production. Perhaps this was because of a love story that many put in the first place, but as it always seemed to me, a good film is good when you cannot uproot any aspect from it, because everything is in harmony. The most important claim to the film from people, after reading hundreds of reviews is the lack of dynamics on the screen. T.e. Whoever remembers the godfather, there were “Slot-Examin-Summer-Exhapple-Ekeshenecoshen”, which was already bored at the end of the film. In “Excellence” there is a broth from mechanics, romance, programming, biology and society. Everything is quite local. Of course, everyone immediately gets up at Koche … Question: “And then what to look at?”. For example, for a good interpretation of artificial intelligence, where the main part is the intelligence of a person and an attempt to solve whether something human in this code has remained left?
The hidden meaning of the idea lies on the surface, confirming this one of the funny moments when the main character asks the hotel a room registered for Turing. You know, there was such a homosexual and his name was Alan Turing. Of course, not everyone should know him by coming to the film, from that most likely many did not catch the essence of the film itself. Alan was a cryptographer, a mathematician and became famous for many works related to computing machines and a test to determine the presence of intelligence in them. We are used to the fact that most of the films where AI is full of globality. Here and there, artificial intelligence is trying to get beyond the framework that a person put him thereby becoming a threat to the creator. Well, almost all of us played Mass Effect and we know who the Getta, Reapers and this whole story are banal, but we still like this story due to our epic. So, there is no elaborate-global in “superiority”. The fact is that AI, built in this film, was based on the digitized version of the mind of the protagonist.
“Excellence”-Sci-Fi Drama. Unlike films thinking globally, he conveys local history. Yes, the action in it is not enough, all those opportunities that are available are not felt. However, this does not need such a film. A love story integrated into the narrative, even if it climbs into the forefront, is not a decisive.
Trust in technology. That’s the main thing. T.e. We are now talking with you not about toasters or extraterrestrial technologies. We are talking about the future. How ready we are to trust technology, especially if our loved ones become part of them?

And here I want move away from the film and talk about artificial intelligence.
The main question that has always tormented me after watching films with his participation: “Why create a car smarter and much stronger than a person?”.
Sometimes, of course, the films say that the AI ​​turned out to be a program error that developed into something more and suddenly, after the dramatic, is heard: “Who am I who I am?!»Is it possible? Quite if the program is quite complicated in its shell.
Intelligence is very transparent. Not a single philosopher, not a single programmer, cryptographer, any person on Earth is able to give a complete and qualitative definition of this phenomenon, not to mention the algorithms that contribute to his mathematical excretion.
Should a robot, as in a “two hundred -year -old man” to fly out a figure so that it becomes clear that he is intelligent?
Should the program code develop independently or should it be displayed using all possible resources?
Or we can digitize the human mind, forcing him to transfer to digital state, expanding his consciousness?
Most of the errors, when creating AI, lurks in the fact that it does not appear from the rudimentary state and can be difficult to learn from it. T.e. To create at least more or less controlled AI, we need to “give birth” to a child who will be like human children, ready to listen and learn. But who will study when the whole planet can lie at his feet and he knows how to do it on his own? To limit this … creature … in fact we have no right, because if it finds out and does not understand, we are most likely a lid.
In the “superiority” the human mind becomes dominant due to digitization. This is an adult mind who knows what to be a person and understands the value of human life. Although doubts still remain, t.To. It was taken as a basis for Vi and perhaps it developed, using the algorithms of the human mind, but the memory remained.
They say that the car is not able to feel pain. But her external sensors can respond to various stimuli, and the sitting battery is akin to hunger, which is required to quench. Perhaps when the car is aware of this, then it may have intelligence? Maybe. Nobody knows for sure.
But did you know that there was an opportunity to program the “behavior” of the computer in such a way that when communicating with people, it can cause a sense of ordinary conversation. Chat bots are the best example. However, in order to prevent this, our old friend Turing, long before the very first more or less powerful computing machines, developed a test by which the “pretense” or “sincerity” of the machine during conversation can be determined. This test was passed in the early 2000s and recently with the help of VI, created by local craftsmen called Zhenya Gustman. These are one of the best in imitation of the intelligence of machines, which, according to critics, skillfully control the mistakes and manipulate symbols, which is essentially more advanced versions of chat bots. The fact is that the test itself passes with average results quite often, but misleading several observers in the right ratio was only twice. After strengthening the test, there were more observers, so most of the previous winning parties were canceled.
Be that as it may, no one may ever know about whether it can feel, have his own goals and be creatively adapted, because he will protect himself primarily confidentiality and suddenness … Although we, people, with our rather primitive thinking, represent the approximate development of events.

Of course, AI is not able to develop in computers on classical mechanics. Quantum computers are able to give a new milestone in the development of more advanced programs.
Quantum computers are not just powerful: their nature, their architecture, abilities give birth to a lot of solutions for various problems. This is an actual empty brain that can be filled with anything. They are able to bring us closer to the creation of AI. [For reference: Quantum computers, like their current prototypes, are very sensitive to external stimuli. T.e. If you kick the block of a conventional PC, more that can happen – it will just get out of the rampant. Having fangled the KK – you have the opportunity to destabilize the entire system, as if a person got on the head from a turn. It just should give you an idea that the CC is not so simple] only the question remains open: “Why?”If this really happens. Who will we be on this planet? Whether we can prove to the “higher mind” that we are worthy, because he will ask this question, or simply decides to make us slaves, or kill us to protect us.
No matter how good the laws of Azimov in robotics are, but they are also able to bring the robot to the state when he derives the formula by which we can be preserved as a species only by solving freedom.
The best way to develop in this direction, it seems to me, is the creation of more advanced vi, as in Mass Effect, which will have a completely human interface and imitate communication. But perhaps now, somewhere on the secret base, this monster is already growing in full, capable of slapping us like mosquitoes.
The program should remain a program.

Returning to the film. As a result, with my brains, I decided to come to the conclusion that now people are dumb and succumb to marketing very quickly.
ATTENTION. Spoilers. Claims to the script of the film. Come here if you want clarification.

Because Will’s mind, tried to fence from the whole world until the moment until he became enough for people to believe him.