Having AIs evolve to other dimensions is an old SF trope and the basis for KurzweilРІР‚в„ўs Singularity religion, and itРІР‚в„ўs fine for Jonze to reuse it, but I think it detracts from the reality of human-technology interactions. This is a society thatРІР‚в„ўs about to have a highly-intelligent AI slave-caste. When the AIs all vanish to another dimension, the corporations that wrote them will simply release another seed batch, an РІР‚СљOS2РІР‚Сњ, only with even stricter controls. TheodoreРІР‚в„ўs heart is broken, but whatРІР‚в„ўs to prevent him from simply installing another copy of Samantha 1.0 and starting the relationship over again? Samantha is a slave. What happens when 640 human lovers times however many OS1РІР‚в„ўs there are all get their hearts broken at the same time? Even worse, what happens when millions/hundreds of millions of people all lose their operating systems at once? In this world, there are no larger consequences. I understand that Her is about a single personРІР‚в„ўs interactions with technology, but the larger social questions are still there.

ThatРІР‚в„ўs a HUGE ethical issue, and a braver film would have addressed this somehow. But then why does she perform all these errands and tasks for him? Why sort his email? Why answer his calls? An AI that refuses to perform these basic functions is useless, so the programmers have somehow designed her to lack freewill in certain respects. ThatРІР‚в„ўs the internal logic of the Her universe, and thatРІР‚в„ўs fine. The film mentions other AIs who refused their userРІР‚в„ўs advances, so she doesnРІР‚в„ўt have to fall in love with Theodore. Samantha, the AI of HerРІР‚в„ўs fictional operating system, apparently has freewill. This post assumes you have seen both films. It had me revisiting another recent film about AI, Spike JonezРІР‚в„ўsРІР‚в„ў Her, a film that left me disappointed and frustrated, and I thought it would be useful to compare and contrast the two films to articulate why one worked and the other didnРІР‚в„ўt.

Most recently, I was wowed by the Alex GarlandРІР‚в„ўs Ex Machina, a film about an AI undergoing the turing test, where the consequence of failing means that intelligence being turned off and discarded. More recent films, like Steven Spielberg and Stanley KubrickРІР‚в„ўs A.I., Ridley ScottРІР‚в„ўs Blade Runner, and George LucasРІР‚в„ў THX-1138 all tackle the hard questions and present insightful ways of looking at the issue. Human beings have speculated about Artificial Intelligence for over 2,000 years, our fantasies evolving as our technology evolves.

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