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Matriculated (2003)
Overlooked Pictures
English - December 16, 2019 12:01 - 45 minutes - 10.9 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratingsTV & Film Arts criticism films sociology analysis commentary humanities movies philosophy pictures psychology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jules: Whether or not machines can, should, or will become self-aware are perennial debates in the field of artificial intelligence. They are perfectly capable of performing any number of tasks without it, and it's unclear how one might go about installing or eliciting it in a machine. Peter Chung of Aeon Flux fame engages in these questions by way of the interaction between human agents and a killer machine that has been trapped in a virtual world.
David: If a human can be shocked into awakening from the dream-seduction of the matrix, can a machine also be awoken? And if woken can it be turned? How to do that? Via a counter-seduction? Can the machine be lured from its role of anti-insurgent into a more agreeable motivation and agency to which it can choose allegiance? Is this an awakening from autonomic slumber or just a matriculation from one dream into another?