Are Humans Really That Good?

Although this film is not the reality of what man kind's capability to create has come to, it causes one to ponder what could be done in the near future and even now.    Prior to any great show of robotics the film displays technologies that are decently advanced from what is currently commonplace.  The cell phones are slim and slender looking, the computers are similarly slim, and both have no buttons as all, only touchscreens.  Another thing to be noted on both items is that they do not require even touch at time, only hand motions above them.  One rather appealing piece of technology shown was an electronic canvas for the female protagonist.  It showed the same abilities as the phone and computer, but also other features that would be specifically helpful to artists, which was pretty neat.  The film actually makes the viewer begin to wonder after Martha, the female protagonist, is unwillingly signed up for a program to “talk” to her recently deceased husband.  The software of the program searches through all of the deceased person’s public online interactions; this means their tweets, Facebook posts, blogs, vlogs, and any other social media that could be found without passwords.  With the culmination of all of this information the program designs a textual replica of the deceased person that is able chat with another person in the likeness that he or she would have spoken.  Things like AI chats already exist and they are becoming quite advanced.  In some online chat rooms real people may great difficulty determining the words of a real person from a well programmed and learning AI.  A recent example of this is “TayTweets,” which was a well-conceived idea, but went horribly awry when released into the world.  “Tay” was supposed to learn how humans interact with each other and then talk to others, especially those who talked to her in the manners she derived.  She quickly became a genocide loving racist.  People corrupted her as quickly as they could to see how evil they could turn a learning AI, and succeeded all too well.  The movie later introduces a robot that is so human-like that many would find it real.  If that same or similar software were to be programmed into this humanoid machine then the most likely outcome would be an apocalypse like the Terminator movies.  This is a frightening prospect, and while the robot could already have a preconceived personality it would still be learning a lot from the world around it.  Overall the emotions I felt from this film were curiosity and worry.  I am incredibly curious to see technology like this in the future because of the possible uses it could provide and simply the sheer capability of what it could do from there.  However, that capability then leads to worry because of the horrific possibilities it also could cause.  But I then must take a step back and think, is man as it is now really any better though? So many people thrive on hate and the ruin of others that it is practically intrinsic of humans, so could a learning machine that looked like us really cause more harm than we already do to ourselves?