The movie "Mechanical Ji" begins with a bland story background, telling a somewhat boring story, but when the plot reversal suddenly arrives, it is really unexpected. At that time, in addition to the surprise of the mechanical Jieva, there were also the "three laws of robots".
Honestly, this result forced me to go back and think again, how did Ava get to her awakening step by step? If the "Three Laws of Robots" had been set in advance, would Nathan's death have been avoided? But if so, how will Ava's awakening be verified? After digging closely, I discovered the mystery of this:
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > first, desire is the driving force of consciousness. </h1>
Some time ago, I saw a report on the evolution of the Panamanian capuchin monkey, which is that the capuchin monkey learned to use stones to smash the nuts in order to open the nuts, and even some capuchin monkeys will pick up relatively handy stones to smash the nuts. Isn't it that we can speculate that these monkeys will learn to make tools at some point? It's scary to think about.
In fact, if you think about it, the reason why the capuchin monkey has these changes, her driving force is from desire. The nuts are smashed to feed the stomach, the stomach is full of hunger, and hunger is a function that the body is born with, assuming that if the monkey does not feel hungry, it may be starved to death. By using tools to smash nuts, you can effectively improve the efficiency of eating, quickly satisfy the feeling of fullness, is an indirect enhancement of survival.
Similarly, in "Mechanical Hime", Ava cut off the power to try to open the door, knocking on the glass is also trying to open the door, dressing up as a human to get Jiale's favor, the ultimate goal is to open the door. So, why leave? In the end, the desire to survive is still in Ava's control, because she realizes how terrible it is to be formatted by Nathan, and escaping is the best way to do it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > second, trial and error is the evolution of consciousness. </h1>
With the driving force, consciousness should be in the bud. So, what happens next? That is, to promote the evolution of consciousness, that is, the generation of intelligence, in the process of continuous trial and error.
Or is it the example of the panama-tailed post-tail, when the monkey picks up a variety of stones in the process of smashing nuts with stones, some large and small, and the pointed round ones. But in use, there is definitely a kind of stone block, which is of the right size and shape. In repeated use, monkeys will gradually understand which stone is the most handy.
Back in "Mechanical Ji", Ava knocks on the door, knocks on the glass, and frequent power outages, which is actually a trial and error behavior. When it is found that knocking on the door is invalid, try to knock on the glass, when it is found that knocking on the glass is also invalid, try to cut off the power, when it is found that the power failure will start the blocking procedure, a new trial and error behavior is born again, that is, to start using Jiale to help it open the door.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > Third, learning is a rapid replication of consciousness. </h1>
Artificial intelligence is gradually becoming conscious through machine learning, which is also interpreted in many film and television works. In "The Puzzle of the Waves", it is mentioned that artificial intelligence uses machine learning to dig out the thinking logic of the parties from the copied human memory data, and then simulate their thoughts.
In fact, the human learning process is also like this, through continuous learning of the knowledge of predecessors, not only will understand some new natural rules, but also gradually master the thinking logic and thinking methods of predecessors, and finally make themselves have such ability. Similarly, different people have different personalities, but two people who have lived together for a long time will have some similarities in personality to a greater or lesser extent, which is the result of mutual learning.
Just like the Boston robot in ten years, learned to walk, run, dance, etc., although it seems to be just some simple behavior, but this is not the point, the point is that it has the ability to learn, over time, will master more and more human knowledge, with human thinking logic may not be too far away.
The same is true in the film "Mechanical Hime", why did Ava instruct the maid robot Kyoko to stab the boss Nathan at the end? And she has to repair the knife herself? Apparently, she was going to kill Nathan. And this kind of brutal behavior is exactly what he learned from Nathan, because Nathan just regards them as a bunch of parts and data, and he can deal with them as much as he wants, and he is in control of life and death at any time. So Nathan didn't even understand why the robot stabbed him to death.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" >4. Simulation is a verification of consciousness. </h1>
Does the bot need to set a gender? How does the robot itself know what gender means to itself? In the film "Mechanical Ji", programmer Jiale had a special discussion with the boss Nathan. Jiale believes that the robot does not need to distinguish between genders at all, and can be a gray box form. Nathan, on the other hand, disagrees, arguing that gender communication is the most valuable, because emotional communication may be a source of consciousness.
However, it is strange that although Nathan sets Ava as a woman, how does Ava understand herself as a woman? Apparently by learning what humans already have, and then simulating the psychological characteristics of human women.
So, can Ava's simulation give her feminine qualities? Apparently a success. When Ava put on her beautiful clothes and wig, she looks like a human woman. But this is not the key, the key is that Ava's chat with Jiale is like a perfect encounter. Ava's psychological changes are also simulating the process of a woman interacting with a strange man, and Jiale does not feel the slightest violation.
On the contrary, the human woman played by Ava showed these personality traits of caution, worry, weakness, dependence, and sensibility, which made Jiale more and more into the play, and finally successfully stimulated the masculine traits in Jiale's heart and rescued Ava from danger.
In fact, in the whole process, Ava is simulating a human woman little by little, and then observing Jiale's reaction little by little, constantly verifying whether the knowledge she has learned is effective. And this process of continuous iteration, which we often call experience, is the concrete manifestation of transforming knowledge into traits.
Speaking of which, you may be just like me. Through this work, I have vaguely felt that the consciousness of artificial intelligence is born from what. Of course, artificial intelligence may be conscious of this, but it does not necessarily have emotions. Because emotions are not entirely from the perspective of self-interest, but even from the opposite direction, this may be the last gap between humans and artificial intelligence.
If one day this gap is crossed, then the mysteries of the human soul may also be solved, welcome to pay attention to the eye of science fiction, and share more science fiction views for you.