Minggu, 16 Februari 2014

Call From Samantha


Just this afternoon, before I had lunch, I watched the movie 'Her'. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, who I knew nothing about. The only recognizable face in the movie was Amy Adams and her part wasn't that much. But that's not what I want to talk about.

The setting of the movie is a slightly more modern world than ours. The voice command technology was amazing. I tried using my phone's voice command once and instead of opening calculator, which I wanted to do, the phone called someone. But in the movie, the voice command was everything. No one uses keyboard anymore, everything is done through voice. Check e-mails. Delete. Next. Play melancholy song. Play another song. Everything is through voice.

Then again, that isn't also the thing that I want to talk about. Almost forgot, spoiler alert!

A few minutes into the movie, there was a new operating system being introduced in the world. Not Windows, not MacOS, but it was called the OS1. The OS was the first artificially intelligence OS. So anyone that used it only need to command the computer to do whatever he wanted. The protagonist installed the OS and had female voice as his OS. The OS named herself: Samantha.

Since the OS was verrrrryyyyy..... smart (it read a book in 2/100 second), it learned very quickly about many things, more than it should be programmed. Wait! Don't expect it to be like Terminator where the computers rebelled against the humans. No, the computers didn't. Instead of making dangerous robots, the computer and the owner fell in love. Fell. In. Love. With each other. They made love through talking, they were jealous with each other, cried when the other disappeared, just like real lovers.

Watching it just made me sad. There are billions of people, well maybe millions of people in LA (where the story is), yet the protagonist chose an OS. The reason was ehh because she was full of life if I wasn't mistaken. I just can't imagine if this really happens in the future. I guess there is a possibility for this to happen. People in the world have same sex love, inanimate objects love and now there is a chance in the future that people love something invisible. Something programmed.

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