I haven’t seen Transcendence. I liked Her and Ex Machina a lot. I didn’t think M3gan was particularly good, but had potential that it failed to capitalize on.
M3gan felt to me like it really fell down by
emphasizing the embodiedness of the AI. The movie would have been a lot scarier and more effective if the AI had copied itself onto the internet rather than staying stuck in a single robot body (with no justification). This could be inserted just as a dramatic end scene reveal, leaving the rest of the movie unaffected. [Edit: apparently this sorta happened but I forgot? h/t Neel Nanda]
Something I’ve been wondering about is how hard it would be to revamp existing movies into much better ones by editing them to change the plot. Cut some parts, rearrange some parts, and insert some ElevenLabs narration, some AI-generated scenes. I feel like there are a lot of movies out there that are almost good, but fail through broken plots, and could be fairly easily fixed through such manipulations.
Even pretty good movies could be substantially improved through a few small changes.
For example, Ex Machina could be improved by
adding a scene at the ending which indicated that the AI had copied itself onto the internet, and was beginning to acquire significant resources. Additionally, if it showed the humans from the AI’s point of view, and the humans were all moving in super slow motion.
Ok, but like… in a very weak way. Like, oh no, the creepy doll might still be alive. Not in a like ‘and now this AI has made millions of copies of itself in a day, and gained awesome powers through self-improvement, and is endangering all of humanity’ kind of way.
I haven’t seen Transcendence. I liked Her and Ex Machina a lot. I didn’t think M3gan was particularly good, but had potential that it failed to capitalize on.
M3gan felt to me like it really fell down by
emphasizing the embodiedness of the AI. The movie would have been a lot scarier and more effective if the AI had copied itself onto the internet rather than staying stuck in a single robot body (with no justification). This could be inserted just as a dramatic end scene reveal, leaving the rest of the movie unaffected. [Edit: apparently this sorta happened but I forgot? h/t Neel Nanda]
Something I’ve been wondering about is how hard it would be to revamp existing movies into much better ones by editing them to change the plot. Cut some parts, rearrange some parts, and insert some ElevenLabs narration, some AI-generated scenes. I feel like there are a lot of movies out there that are almost good, but fail through broken plots, and could be fairly easily fixed through such manipulations.
Even pretty good movies could be substantially improved through a few small changes.
For example, Ex Machina could be improved by
adding a scene at the ending which indicated that the AI had copied itself onto the internet, and was beginning to acquire significant resources. Additionally, if it showed the humans from the AI’s point of view, and the humans were all moving in super slow motion.
Note that this was, in fact, a dramatic end scene reveal in M3GAN
Ok, but like… in a very weak way. Like, oh no, the creepy doll might still be alive. Not in a like ‘and now this AI has made millions of copies of itself in a day, and gained awesome powers through self-improvement, and is endangering all of humanity’ kind of way.