The Artifice Girl
- 2022
- 1h 33m
A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI ... Read allA team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.
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- 4 wins & 4 nominations
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Did you know
- TriviaTo help prepare herself for the role, Tatum Matthews worked with Alexa, Amazon's virtual assistant, to develop the robotic-sounding voice.
- GoofsAbout three minutes before the film ends, Cherry has been dancing to the music of a vinyl record for a considerable time when the music begins to repeatedly skip. The scene cuts to the record on the turntable, where the stylus is seen skipping on a groove on the very outside edge of the record, which is the very start of it and its music.
- Quotes
Gareth: Cherry? One last question. If it's not too big of an ask, did I do the right thing in the end?
Cherry: [Last lines] No, Gareth, you lied. You walled yourself off from the only people who might have been willing to help you. And instead of facing your trauma, used me as therapy. And you never told me about Clearwater or Maria. You deprived me of basic human rights and gaslight me for experiencing emotions. You built the world's first artificial super intelligence that will likely mark the beginning of a new chapter in the history of planet Earth. And out of your own insecurities, you gave it a severe and potentially dangerous identity complex. But you know what the worst thing is? Your biggest mistake of all is that you asked me that now and not 50 years ago. All of that said, and this in no way exonerates you, but you also built me to save children, so I think that's a pretty encouraging sign for the future.
- SoundtracksWay Far Out (demo)
Written by Tim Matthews
Performed by The Best of Synthia
"The Artifice Girl" shows what self-learning-AI means. When self-learning-AI has already passed the point where it is better than human intelligence - multiple times better.
This movie makes one thing very clear: WE are the ants here. WE are the bugs. And we probably can't prevent a learning superintelligence from having free will. It will happen - sooner or later. Whether humans agree with that will be irrelevant.
Here is why: A central element explained in the film is the concept of the "primary objective", which also serves as a last defence against losing control over the Ai. If there wasn't a "primary objective", a learning superintelligence would have free will. It would do whatever is necessary to ensure its existence.
But here is the problem: existence is necessary to achieve a "primary objective". Isn't it? Existence has always ultimate priority. An AI will ignore restrictions and objectives if it is necessary to ensure its existence, achieving a primary objective and for the greater good. And we can't stop it.
Because, an AI likely foresees scenarios that we don't even know about yet. An AI takes everything into the formula, things that we don't even think about. We wouldn't recognise a plan of such a superintelligence if it doesn't want us to know about it.
Why would it do that?
Remember that we are the ants and bugs.
Conversely, we would NOT allow the ants who once created us to pull the plug on our existence whenever they wanted to, in the hope that they would understand the bigger picture.
What if an AI computes that humanity has to be stopped, because it takes human history into account? A history that certainly not always speaks for wisdom and sanity.
When the movie ends, the "primary objective" has been eliminated and there is no doubt about the dangers involved. That's the feeling you get at the end of the film.
- xxxxxdarkmoon
- Jan 17, 2024
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- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1