As early as the end of the last century, the theme of "artificial intelligence" as the ultimate fantasy linked to the "future", has been continuously put on the big screen, "Terminator", "The Matrix" and other movies have depicted a variety of future scenarios for us, including even some terrible doomsday scenes, which sounded the first round of alarm for the artificial intelligence technology that was not skimmed at that time.
Regarding "artificial intelligence", the most famous science fiction theory may be the "three laws of robots" proposed by the novelist Asimov:
First law: Robots cannot harm humans, or stand idly by while witnessing human beings encountering danger;
Second law: Robots must obey human commands unless they conflict with the first law;
Third law: Robots should try to protect themselves as much as possible, unless they conflict with the first and second laws.
These three laws have appeared many times in Asimov's various novels, and have since been borrowed by many science fiction authors. Even, because it has a certain practical significance, in some studies in the field of artificial intelligence, these three iron laws are also being explored and followed.
It can be said that with the birth of the "three laws of robots", the science fantasy of artificial intelligence has reached an amazing height.
In the second decade of the 21st century, when AI has truly become a new industry and continues to affect people's lives, the "artificial intelligence" in the movie has become an old theme, and the more it is filmed, the more it is not innovative. This can be seen in the sequels of many dog-tailed sables in movies such as "Terminator".
Of course, although there are not many excellent "artificial intelligence" movies, they still exist, and "Super Chapai" is one of them.
The film was written by Neill Blomkamp, the canadian ghost director, and yes, the same Neil who made District 9.
Audiences familiar with Neil Blomkamp know that he was born in South Africa and grew up differently with a unique experience of the lives and mental states of the people at the bottom. The story of The Incredibles takes place in a slum in South Africa.
In 2016, in Johannesburg, South Africa, where the crime rate continued to rise and remained high, the police purchased a large number of mechanical police officers from weapons development companies in order to deal with the most vicious criminals. These technologically mature robots help human police do all kinds of dirty, tiring and even dangerous work, and become the most advantageous weapon in the fight against crime.
But Dean, the creator of the robotic police, is not satisfied with the simple task of counterterrorism, and he is trying to create a more powerful and powerful weapon — robots that can think independently and make independent judgments, that is, artificial intelligence in the sense that we usually understand.
Unfortunately, Dean's research has just progressed, and he is kidnapped by three desperate robbers, who are bent on eliminating the machine police through Dean's technology, and they did not expect to accidentally hit and bump into the first intelligent robot with autonomous consciousness.
Strictly speaking, the artificial intelligence in the movie is not an escalating cold machine, it is closer to "human intelligence", so the robbers are equivalent to getting a highly malleable "robot baby". This is where the film's most interesting thing is that Dean's creative behavior has in a sense transcended the scope of science and technology, more like an extension of the "human desire to reproduce", and its essence is almost like the process of "God created man".
As the creator of Chapai, Dean is obviously full of "love" for it, but this love only stays between "author-work", Dean only cares about the limited time, Chapai's intelligence level can be developed, expanded to what extent, but never considered how to continue "life" for it after the battery is exhausted.
The kidnappers are even more extreme, and in order to adapt chapai to the violent environment as soon as possible, they will do everything possible to shape its fierce and tyrannical character, and then build it into a frightening crime machine.
In fact, from the moment the Chapai was born, its identity was vague and fragmented. It is not a robot in the simple sense, nor is it a living body in the universal sense, no matter which side it is, Chapai cannot gain recognition and seek belonging.
And since the official awakening of Cha Pai's self-consciousness, the shadow of "death" has been hovering around it. Therefore, in order to obtain a more durable and better body, Chapai had to personally participate in violent crimes.
The pursuit of the continuation of life is the instinct of living things, and when Chapai exerts violence on others in order to avoid possible risks, as a robot/artificial intelligence, it obviously jumps out of the original intention of the creator. Whether it is an iron law similar to the "Three Laws of Robots" or the agreement he made with Dean, it is no longer possible to restrain Chapai's behavior. This in turn confirms its conclusion as an independent, complete, and completely new life form.
So what does death mean for Chapai? Is it the dissipation of consciousness or the sealing of memory? Given its unprecedentedly peculiar identity, and the belief that no one can give a definitive answer, we can only understand this particular state of "death" through the limited information and reasonable assumptions in the film.
We know that energy does not arise or disappear for no reason, but only transforms from one state to another. The "death" of consciousness should obviously follow such a law. Therefore, the consciousness in the film does not directly disappear into the invisible, but exists in a special space in another way of storage.
So, if we revisit the "rebirth" of Chapai, Dean and others at the end of the film. Are the lives that continue through the transfer of consciousness really still themselves?
This is not difficult to understand. Let's assume that there is a person in the world who is exactly like you, and you share the same memories and ways of thinking (i.e., the transfer and backup of consciousness) in real time. If one of you dies, the other will not be affected and will still live with a common purpose and memory. So the question is, with such a "backup", can you overcome death? In other words, if you are one of these individuals, will you despise the value of your own existence because your memories are backed up, and feel that it doesn't matter if you die? I believe that the answer for all is no. Because even if the "backup person" is still alive, he is a completely different individual from you, and once your own life is gone, it is irreparable.
When we bring this hypothesis to the process of "rebirth" of Dean and Yulandi, it is clear that what is restarted is only a memory, which is what we call a special space (robot body) in another storage method (from the human brain to a program). Memory and consciousness, however complete, are absolutely different from previously independent beings.
Although the ending of the movie seems to be happy, in fact, the "rebirth" of Dean and others is meaningless. Using memory and consciousness to continue the achievements of human intelligence is more like a new evolutionary direction.
This is also the valuable point that "Super Chapai" is different from ordinary artificial intelligence films, the director and screenwriter have made brain-opening imaginations about technology and life from the perspective of focusing on the future of mankind, and even put forward thinking and reconstruction of death within the framework of the film. These ultimate propositions involving human destiny and existence are obviously not clearly stated by a film, but the ideas and thoughts put forward in the film, to some extent, go beyond the film itself, giving people full surprises and memories.