Bladerunner and AI Notes

 AI and Blade Runner - Week 4

  • Alan Turing

    • Murdered early in his life for being gay

    • Architect of modern days computer 

      • Asked can a machine think

  • Turing Test

    • 1950 paper - can machines think?

    • Test:

      • Interrogator tries to figure out if 2 people are or aren't a human

      • If the interrogator can’t tell the difference, is it intelligent?

  • What is AI

    • AI - John McCarthy definition - It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable

    • The original 7 aspects of AI 

      • automatic computers, programming AI to use language, hypothetical neuron nets to be used to form concepts, measuring problem complexity, self-improvement, abstractions, and randomness and creativity

    • Strong vs weak AI

Bladerunner

  • Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot Evolution into the nexus phase, a being identical to a human, known as a replicant 

    • Slave labour and colonization of other planets

    • Replicants declared illegal after revolution

      • Bladerunners are executioners of these beings 

  • New York - 2019

    • Blooms of fire, a floating car like hellfire>>>

    • Test to invoke a emotion response 

    • Off world colonies, giant electronic advertisements

  • Slaughter of 23 people - 6 replicant, 4 remaining- another shot

    • Voight-Komnit test, replicant. Want something out of the Tyrell corporation 

      • Roy (trained killer), Zhora (healing military), Pris (pleasure model)

        • They have a 4 year life span

    • Architecture of Tyrell reminds me a lot of aztec pyramids 

    • More human than human - Rachael is an experiment and nothing more

      • They are experimenting with giving them pasts, memories, resulting in more emotional response

  • Detective time

    • Fish are manufactured in this world, as are most animals in this world

  • Oh no hes in love with Rachael, the very thing he needs to destroy, what a plot twist

    • Rachael saved him from Leon (she shot Leon)

    • What if she went North - > reminds me of Detroit Become Human

  • Is he a replicant?? Hmmmm

    • Oh Rachael is going through it

    • he loves the person that he's supposed to kill, this is gonna end well

  • “I think Sebastian, therefore I am”

    • Only can be said by a human yet said by a replicant 

  • Pris gets killed by Deckard

    • Kinda like an exorcism

  • Roy vs Deckard lets go

    • Roy sorry your sister is dead, nice touch using her blood as war paint though

    • Roy turns into more animal than person/machine 

      • Does roy just want to feel alive?

      • Roy saved Deckard - roy dies right after and dove flies off into sky

  • Its a shame she won't get to live but then again who does 

Philip K Dick

  • In his career, Philip would publish 36 novels and 5 short story collections.

    • He focuses on the emotions of the characters and psychological investigations in the characters he writes about

  • He blossomed in the 50s and 60s, writing his award winning novel The Man in the High Castle

    • This novel has gone on to influence the TV show of the same name.

    • Deals with the idea of alternate universes and alternative worlds 

  • In the 70s he wrote his most influential piece, Do Androids Dream of electric sheep 

    • This novel deals with the authenticity of humanity, and what is real in the world of the future 

  • He is often considered a prophetic writer, seeing as how so many of his works in the mid-late 1900s line up with our world now in the 21st century. 

    • Dick used drugs throughout his life, often disassociation with reality which opened the gates for him to consider the worlds of alternate realities and experiencing a disconnect from reality 

    • Dick even argued that we live in a simulation, a basis for one of the most prolific sci-fi movies ever, the Matrix 

      • The task of the science-fiction writer is creating multiverses, rather than a universe.

  • Though he died in 1982, his work was not recognized by most until years after. He became a top science fiction writer, especially for his book  Do Androids Dream of electric sheep, which has inspired countless works of fiction 

  • He has a notable presence in film with 45 credits on IMDB. Some of his most well known works include:

    • Bladerunner (1982) - Novel: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    • Minority Report (2002) - Short Story: The Minority Report 

    • Total Recall (1990) - Short Story: We can Remember It for You Wholesale

    • A Scanner Darkly (2006) - Novel: A Scanner Darkly

    • The Man in the High Castle (2015-2019) - Novel: The Man in the High Castle

      • His works are still being adapted, even in 2010s and 2020s

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