Will ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE replace the human will?
When it comes to this, many people think of the alphago (alpha Go) that swept the Go world two years ago, which was made by Google and was the first artificial intelligence robot to defeat human professional Go players such as Lee Sedol, Ke Jie, and Park Tinghuan. Its emergence not only confirms that artificial intelligence has surpassed humans intellectually, but also makes people see the possibility of machine-led social progress.
Nowadays, artificial intelligence algorithms have penetrated into all aspects of life, such as Ctrip knows that you are going to travel to the UK, it will make up routes and recommend hotels for you; Taobao knows what you need to buy in addition to your suitcase; Didi knows what time you need to take a taxi to the airport, and even the car rental services to the UK are ready... Combined with big data and machine learning, they can accurately track and predict your behavior, which inevitably makes many people worry about their future and fear that they will one day be eliminated by machines.
In fact, including the world-famous physicist Stephen. Hawking, Tesla CEO Elon. Musk, many scientists and entrepreneurs, are full of concerns about the development of artificial intelligence, and they have jointly called on researchers to ensure that artificial intelligence works strictly according to human will. It can be seen that the impact of artificial intelligence on human society has become one of the focus issues that all mankind is paying attention to at present.
And such themes of film and television works, small to robot crime, large to the war between robots and humans, has always been favored by the audience, of which, there is a hot-blooded film that must be mentioned, it is the Douban score of up to 8.2 points of "Iron Armor Steel Fist".
What makes this film special is that it not only shows people what the future of robotic boxing will look like, but also reveals three key factors that the human will cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence. After watching this movie, I believe that many people will understand the reasons why human beings have been able to reproduce and gradually evolve to the top of the food chain, and those valuable qualities that we have ignored are worthy of our careful exploration and consideration.
Since artificial intelligence does not have human feelings, we do not have to worry about machines producing human emotions or controlling us emotionally. Don't underestimate this sensual power, like the emotions contained in "Iron Fist", it is enough to make our hearts strong enough to rival hard steel.
The story takes place in the near future, in order to pursue the ultimate fighting pleasure in boxing, humans no longer play in person, but through the manipulation of intelligent robots on the field of combat.
Hugh Jackman plays father Charlie Kenton, who indulges in robotic boxing and abandons his wife and son. Later, his son Max was forced to live with his father for dozens of days, and he fell in love with robot boxing like crazy. The father and son were poor at first, but the son, with his persistent pursuit of dreams, and trust and encouragement for his father, finally awakened the love and courage in Charlie's heart, and let him stand up again, becoming a pure and outstanding boxing coach and a good father in the true sense. They constantly challenged their limits with the robots they picked up, and finally defeated the world's first god of war robot Zeus, and the two fathers and sons were also rated as civilian champions by the audience, realizing their dreams.
The essence of the film is not the adrenaline-pumping moving scenes, nor the dynamic rock and roll soundtrack, but the shaping of two typical images in the era of intelligence, facing the elimination of robots and whether to insist on dreams:
Charlie is an incompetent father who seems to have only robots fighting in his head. But his depravity stems from the fact that his beloved boxing career has been replaced by robots. He chose to paralyze himself, playing with the robots as a pile of scrap iron after each race.
Max, on the other hand, is a genius and handsome child, who lacks his father's love from childhood, and has his own strong and unfazed personality. The 11-year-old's mind is even more comprehensive than his father's, and he insists on his own opinions in everything.
The father and son have been raising the bar since the first time they met, and the only thing they have in common is that they love robot boxing, but one pursues money and the other pursues dreams. The change in his son Max's feelings for his father, Charlie, comes when he learns that his father was once a professional boxer, and his father even knocked the boxer to the ground with the spirit of not accepting defeat.
The affection of blood thicker than water made the hearts of the two become warm at this moment. Encouraged by his son, Charlie began to teach robot boxing skills, and Max began to worship and maintain his father. When facing the mighty enemy Zeus, everyone will shudder; when facing their own demons, everyone will have concerns, but they can be defeated by not the steel armor in front of them, but the son's words to his father: "I want you to fight for me!" ”
It is these words that awaken courage and determination that are harder than steel. Perhaps, efficient and accurate intelligent algorithms will replace artificial labor sooner or later, but family, friendship, and love are still indispensable emotions in the world and the source of human spiritual power. When we face the major problems of life, this irreproducible love can always arouse the fearless faith in our hearts for the first time, no matter what, it will silently support us behind the scenes, and this is an icy machine, incomparable.
At the end of the film, the strong Max shed tears after defeating Zeus, and the father and son embraced each other, and the true feelings were revealed. Perhaps the father, Charlie, always owes his son a word: "Thank you son, it is you who let me regain my dignity, and I am willing to fight for you."
In a section of Liu Cixin's science fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem", the heroine Cheng Xin is awakened in hibernation and discovers that her agent Vader has a major conflict with the Earth Federation in order to develop a light-speed spaceship. She did not hesitate to stop Vader and stop the war. Vader famously said to her: "Lose humanity, lose a lot; lose bestiality, lose everything!" Unfortunately, Cheng was full of benevolence and could not understand the meaning of Vader's words.
In the end, cruel facts proved that Vader's approach was correct, under the blow of the dimensionality reduction of the alien higher civilization, the earth civilization was vulnerable and suffered a catastrophe.
"Iron Fist" has the same allegorical setting, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, and human concerns about dangerous behavior, they choose to rely on robots to accomplish many things, under the inhibition of technological development, people slowly lost their natural nature.
In the film, adam, the robot used by the father and son for the game, has a mapping function that can imitate human behavior, and at the end of the film, when the weak robot is broken by the powerful Zeus, an unforgettable scene appears: the father Charlie himself goes into battle, let Adam imitate his movements, it seems to be a battle between robots, in fact, a competition between humans and robots. As Charlie waved his fist mercilessly at the boxing ring, he seemed to be back on the fighting stage full of fighting spirit and animalism ruled by robots, and his whole body was full of bloody power that shook people's hearts.
This is the power that human beings have inherited from primitive society, and with this force, we can survive in harsh environments and continue and even grow in one social change and cruel war after another. However, now, technology brings convenience and comfort to our lives, but also consumes the bloodiness of our past.
According to the law of natural selection, when all human things need to be solved by machines, the human organism will gradually decline under the long-term lack of labor exercise, which will eventually lead to the interruption of human development.
I think that the director's use of Hugh Jackman to play Charlie can be said to be the most appropriate, because only this great actor who has played "Wolverine" for 17 years can truly interpret the preciousness and tenacity of this animalism. Hugh Jackman was 48 years old when he last played Wolverine, and he worked non-stop for 18 years for the role, so tightly controlling his calorie intake that he said goodbye to his favorite sweets for too long. So, when he transformed into a superhero to turn the tide on the big screen, his blood and fighting spirit were enough to infect everyone.
If a person loses his humanity, he may lose a lot of friends and a lot of social relations, but as long as he works hard, he can prove himself; but if a person loses his animal nature, then he will go to the road of self-abandonment, and in the face of crisis, he will not even show a trace of courage, and can only rely on the handouts of others to live in the world, even if he has more noble qualities, he cannot save the soul without free will.
If emotion is the source of human spiritual strength, and animalism is the basis for human continuity, then the creation of art and the pursuit of dreams are the key to the victory of our ancestors in the competition with other races and species.
In the world of Iron Fist, traditional human boxers are eliminated, and in order to win the game, the boxing robots that are replaced by various skills are added, and people pursue strong power and harder bodies, and it seems that as long as the hardware parameters are constantly improved, they can become the strongest boxers.
Charlie's robot, Adam, is an old second-generation sparring machine that seems to have only been beaten apart from a hard frame. But his son Max did not think so, and with his extraordinary creative talent, he ingeniously modified the speech recognition module to Adam in order to make it quickly respond to commands. Then, he asked his father, Charlie, to train Adam in his fighting skills and pace, so that the combination of fists and light steps allowed Adam to cope with opponents who were stronger than himself.
It can be said that Adam embodies Charlie's practical skills and Max's exquisite design, which has advantages that machines can't reach, that is, the wisdom of Charlie and Max. The source of their wisdom is the artistic creation in their respective fields of expertise and the relentless pursuit of dreams, which robots that predict user behavior through a large amount of data do not have.
Dr. Wu Jun, former vice president of Tencent, once borrowed the two typical roles of Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochao in "Dream of the Red Chamber" to analyze the creative talent and dream-chasing spirit of human beings.
Dai Yu is composing poetry, and Bao Chao is a person. Dai Yu has spirituality, and Bao Chao has virtue. In real life, we need to be able to be human, just the character of poetry, not to be tolerated in the world, there is no doubt about this. However, there can be no shortage of people like Dai Yu who write poems with their lives, otherwise a society is a vulgar society and a country where the family is vulgar. Although Lin Daiyu died at a young age, her spirit of writing poetry with life took root in the hearts of generations of young people, and the word romance was born in our lives.
Looking back at human history, even in times of war, there have been a large number of artists and dreamers like Romain Rolland, Zweig, Hemingway, robert Kappa, who are willing to burn their lives for the creation of art and their dreams, and this slightly idealistic behavior is often regarded as a different kind in modern society, because we are sometimes too utilitarian, so that life is limited to the immediate.
If we are worried that artificial intelligence will replace the human will, then perhaps we neglect to build emotions with others, perhaps we are addicted to comfort zones and lose the animal nature of fighting, perhaps we have never used our work as a work of art to carve, seeking heights and irreplaceability that others cannot reach, and perhaps, we have long forgotten how to achieve our dreams.
No matter at any time, there is no advantage in fighting steel with flesh and blood, and compared with artificial intelligence, the result can only be self-inflicted. If you want to win in the competition, you must be like the father and son in "Iron Fist", recognize their unique advantages, and spare no effort to maximize it, the noble qualities inherited by these human beings mentioned above are enough to make us think of things that machines can't imagine, you know, the new rise and development of artificial intelligence is the result of scientists' courage to explore, study hard and innovate in the field of algorithms.
Therefore, we don't have to think about how to win this era, what we should win is the past self that did not realize that we were strong.
References: "Three-Body Problem", "Letter from Wu Jun's Silicon Valley"