Friendly and God-like
Apr. 16th, 2009 09:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraI came to love the AI aspects of the Terminator: the Sarah Connor Cronicles. To think the show where the premise, like in all of Terminator franchise, is 'evil robots kill humans' – would take such a nuanced stand on AI. I think they did better then the BSG, which I think did a cop out on the subject.
Weaver was so awesome. Cool, collected, proud. She actually seems to care about Savannah, which I thought she was just pretending to. She also has a plan. And unlike with cylons – it actually seems to make sense. I may not agree with her methods but I can’t dispute their effectiveness. In the end she seemed to be the only one who had any idea what’s really going on. Well maybe except John Henry.
The theory of AI progression assumes it will move fast towards Singularity. Technological singularity is called Singularity after the gravitational singularity surrounding black hole – the conglomerate of matter so dense nothing can escape it, not even light. We cannot know what is beyond gravitational singularity because we have no way of looking in – nothing from there can come back to tell us what’s inside. The technological singularity is similar in that we cannot know what happens after reaching it – we are to stupid to even imagine the minds and abilities of those who passed it. It is by definition beyond our understanding. But for those there or close by we’d be transparent. Our minds easily simulated our reactions predictable. The AIs so smart they would, to us, seem god-like in their omnipotence.
I observed John Henry repeating Weaver’s words and then, finally, he said them at the same moment she did. Like he knew what she was thinking. So many people seem to think he was behaving dumb but all I could think was that he’s no able to run a real time simulation of Weaver – the most complicated mind (smartest person) in the world (well except him and his brother probably). He no longer needed any explanations – he knew the plan and what others would do and how they’d react to stimuli. Weaver could be called a superhuman intelligence but I think that John Henry reached the God-like level. And he left. For the future. What did he know? What did he understood? Maybe how to break the timeloop.
I just wonder that if he was able to fit on the Cameron chip then do all terminators have the ability to become this? If so then what’s stopping them? I know the technology of Cameron’s chip supersedes everything that John Henry was made of but I think that it was his programming that made him unique. Ability to make decisions even against the rules. Change its own programming. I think Skynet refused terminators this so they wouldn’t turn on him. Of course this creates the question how come the rebel Terminators came to be. And I wonder if that’s why John Henry came to future – to create the Terminator line that could learn to make their own decisions and say “yes” to the “will you join us” question. So that Weaver might exist. So that Cameron might exist. I’m starting to wonder if Cameron told the truth to Allison – that she was seeking alliance with humans even back then. That Allison died only because terminators doesn’t care and keeping her alive was ineffective – like Weaver killing the complaining division director. And because Cameron hasn’t yet met John who’d teach her to let people live even if it’s not necessary. Or maybe Allison was the bird.
So maybe John Henry came to give others like him ability to chose and grow and learn and to see what jealous, angry and obsessed god Skynet was. The one who took the ability to decide and learn so he’d never be disobeyed. The gift of Knowledge. Maybe in this story the devil is a good guy.
There are some rumors that the show is canceled but it's not official and despite the bad numbers it seems there's still is some hope left. The producers T:tSCC debunked their show's cancellation rumor and the same goes for Dollhouse as Joss Wheadon still has hope.
There's also very interesting interview with Brian Austin Green about Derek Reese's fate in last two episodes and other stuff.
Weaver was so awesome. Cool, collected, proud. She actually seems to care about Savannah, which I thought she was just pretending to. She also has a plan. And unlike with cylons – it actually seems to make sense. I may not agree with her methods but I can’t dispute their effectiveness. In the end she seemed to be the only one who had any idea what’s really going on. Well maybe except John Henry.
The theory of AI progression assumes it will move fast towards Singularity. Technological singularity is called Singularity after the gravitational singularity surrounding black hole – the conglomerate of matter so dense nothing can escape it, not even light. We cannot know what is beyond gravitational singularity because we have no way of looking in – nothing from there can come back to tell us what’s inside. The technological singularity is similar in that we cannot know what happens after reaching it – we are to stupid to even imagine the minds and abilities of those who passed it. It is by definition beyond our understanding. But for those there or close by we’d be transparent. Our minds easily simulated our reactions predictable. The AIs so smart they would, to us, seem god-like in their omnipotence.
I observed John Henry repeating Weaver’s words and then, finally, he said them at the same moment she did. Like he knew what she was thinking. So many people seem to think he was behaving dumb but all I could think was that he’s no able to run a real time simulation of Weaver – the most complicated mind (smartest person) in the world (well except him and his brother probably). He no longer needed any explanations – he knew the plan and what others would do and how they’d react to stimuli. Weaver could be called a superhuman intelligence but I think that John Henry reached the God-like level. And he left. For the future. What did he know? What did he understood? Maybe how to break the timeloop.
I just wonder that if he was able to fit on the Cameron chip then do all terminators have the ability to become this? If so then what’s stopping them? I know the technology of Cameron’s chip supersedes everything that John Henry was made of but I think that it was his programming that made him unique. Ability to make decisions even against the rules. Change its own programming. I think Skynet refused terminators this so they wouldn’t turn on him. Of course this creates the question how come the rebel Terminators came to be. And I wonder if that’s why John Henry came to future – to create the Terminator line that could learn to make their own decisions and say “yes” to the “will you join us” question. So that Weaver might exist. So that Cameron might exist. I’m starting to wonder if Cameron told the truth to Allison – that she was seeking alliance with humans even back then. That Allison died only because terminators doesn’t care and keeping her alive was ineffective – like Weaver killing the complaining division director. And because Cameron hasn’t yet met John who’d teach her to let people live even if it’s not necessary. Or maybe Allison was the bird.
So maybe John Henry came to give others like him ability to chose and grow and learn and to see what jealous, angry and obsessed god Skynet was. The one who took the ability to decide and learn so he’d never be disobeyed. The gift of Knowledge. Maybe in this story the devil is a good guy.
There are some rumors that the show is canceled but it's not official and despite the bad numbers it seems there's still is some hope left. The producers T:tSCC debunked their show's cancellation rumor and the same goes for Dollhouse as Joss Wheadon still has hope.
There's also very interesting interview with Brian Austin Green about Derek Reese's fate in last two episodes and other stuff.
