Thursday, January 15, 2009

The Matrix

What strikes you about the film?

What has been really striking me about all of the movies was that almost every movie we watched made the discovery of artificial intelligence a very bad thing. In The Matrix there was a war between the humans and the robots after artificial intelligence was discovered. Eventually the humans were defeated and taken as prisoners. The robots then hooked the humans up to these pods, which gave the robots energy, like batteries. Also so that humans would not revolt the pods would make the people believe that they were in a world that we live in now, when in fact it was a basically destroyed planet with artificial intelligent robots controlling the Earth. I think that the makers of this movie did a great job portraying this bleak future because of artificial intelligence.

3 comments:

  1. Would you agree with Artificial Intelligence being bad or bringing a bleak future for the world?

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  2. Though I agree that Artificial Intelligence if given too much power is a bad thing but I think the message that The Matrix was trying to bring up was what is reality more so then the horror of A.I.

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  3. Maybe it shows that we humans are afraid of our own power.

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