I don't know if it is due to the progress of science and technology, the topic of artificial intelligence seems to be getting hotter and hotter, and more and more moral public opinion is spreading on the Internet. If you want to talk about whether artificial intelligence will have an impact on humans in the future, I personally think that the interactive movie game "Detroit: Becoming Human" is very informative.
In this work, players will go through different choices again and again, the ending of the characters will no longer advance according to the script, we are like from the player to the screenwriter, mastering every plot twist, and finally playing their own ending. Perhaps every decision is a matter of human life, so I will be so involved in the plot and characters of the game, looking forward to the follow-up development, for the sake of the protagonists, I can't help but play chapter after chapter.
Cinematic game in which the player is immersed in the plot
Quantic Dream's predecessors, Rainstorm and The Amazing Twins, are also interactive movie games, so the exciting plot is a big selling point of the game, and Detroit: Becoming Human also allows us to delve into the character's story and explore some serious issues of life. The three protagonists in the game: Carla, Marcus, and Connor represent the struggle stories of different positions and different factions among the bionic people.
I want to talk about the housework bionic carla first, the debut of the beautiful appearance attracted my attention, although the robots all want to buy a home, but the screenwriter let her meet the drug addicted and depraved Todd after the divorce, in the environment of domestic violence, Carla chose to protect Alice out of her own judgment, even if she knew the truth about Alice, she was determined to flee with her, this is the motherly protection setting or self-conscious judgment in the program? Marcus, who is next to the painter Karl, although he has a gentle and kind master like his father, treats himself as a human being, and is still accidentally killed as a perpetrator. Seeing Marcus holding Karl in tears, I had long thought that robots might not be different from humans, and the policeman's unhesitating shot made me angrily slap the table at the moment.
And what I like the most is the interaction between the vice captain Hank and the detective bionic Connor, from Hank can see that humans reject the bionic people, unemployment, the pressure of being replaced makes some people hate the existence of bionic people, Hank although he always shows that he hates Connor, but in many details it can be seen that Hank actually regards Connor as a human, as a partner, as a friend. When Hank shot Connor 2, he said to Connor: "I learned a lot after knowing you, maybe there is a mystery in it, maybe you really have life". Hank gradually identified with Connor, does this mean that humans will eventually identify with the life of bionic humans? At the end of the game, if Hank's favorability is enough, there will be two people hugging each other, which makes us think again about how humans and bionic humans should see each other.
From the game to reality, consciousness from scratch
AI and artificial intelligence may be realized in the near future, so how should we face the problem of selfishness and morality? Interestingly, when every bionic person is faced with an unreasonable command or threat, suddenly breaks through the limit wall of the program as if he has consciousness, awakens to an anomaly, has human emotions, and can even invalidate the tracking function! This may be The original intention of Kamsky, to make the bionic man become a new human being after the choice, and even left an emergency exit to freedom in Connor's program, do you also think that Camsky actually believes that the bionic man is alive?
In the future society, we may also be surrounded by a world full of robots, may experience the plot of the story, the robot that was originally regarded as a tool took my job, the machine that should not be conscious began to think for itself, so it was rejected, even hated, Karl's words pertinent expression of the ugliness of the world: "Fear rules the world, fear of others, the future, when the world is swallowed up by darkness, you have to have the courage to face it." 」 Not only did it encourage Marcus, but it also showed the attitude that human beings should have in the face of technological change, from exclusion to understanding, from hatred to recognition, just like Hank embraced Connor, which is very touching.
A masterpiece that is flawless and meaningful
Although some of the details of the plot are not convincing to people like me who are extremely critical, such as Marcus's net-like infective power, Carla's escape from concentration camps or customs clearance, the reasons for the final retreat of the human army, etc., it is not how unreasonable it is, but it is only a lack of persuasion for me, perhaps a little less interpretation, laying out the brewing, and a little less representative music, although it does not affect the overall viewing, but also leaves some regrets in the process.
What touched me the most throughout the story was that Carla, with the help of Luthor, took Alice through the border and said to Alice, "It's all over, we're free", saying the voice of the oppressed side finally gaining freedom, and also saying the bitterness of our journey as players. Luthor once said to Carla, "Forget who you are, be the one that others need, maybe that's the meaning of living", yes! We always feel empty when we live only for ourselves, and we feel the meaning of life when we live for others.
In reality, is there also a happy ending?
Perhaps it is that I personally have more contact with dark and depressed works, and I often wonder what would happen if these things really happened. Carla can't escape, Marcus dies in protest, Connor successfully solves the abnormal bionic man but still can't stop the AI, and humans will eventually be replaced by robots...
Of course, these are just my brain fantasies, but in other endings, when I saw Carla and her party fail to cross the river, the picture of her holding Alice to the last moment was imprinted in my mind, which may be more real to me, and the fate of many bionic people fleeing may be these Bad Endings, the reality is so cruel, and the game is also very faithful to show this, if we blindly become good people from beginning to end, the sacrifice may be yourself.
Suppose one day a robot says to you, "I am Alive," would you choose to destroy him by believing that the machine is always a human tool, or would you choose to believe in the existence of a mechanical soul and give him rights? Honestly I don't know my answer, but if there was such a day, I might be terrified of the soul questioning of mechanical life, right?