Movie: “The AniMatrix”

A direct-to-video anthology film based on The Matrix trilogy, produced by The Wachowskis, who wrote and directed the trilogy. This film is a compilation of 9 animated short films. It details the backstory of the matrix universe, and the original war between man and machines which led to the creation of the matrix.

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 Humanity successfully developed Artificial intelligence and builds an entire race of robots used as domestic servants. They are meant to interact with humans, which is why they were built in a humanoid form. After the humans were released from their labor, they became lazy, arrogant and corrupt. Later on the relationship between humans and machines changes, when a domestic android is threatened by its owner and then kills the owner.

 A machine killing a human, has always been man's biggest fear. These androids their artificial intelligence has developed so much for them to be able to think for themselves. Becoming able to make their own decisions, for some a frightening case.

 After a trial the android that killed his human master, got destroyed. Because robots don’t have the same rights as humans, and will always be treated as beings of a lower class. This causes a protest by other robots and their human sympathizers. The World leaders fear a robot rebellion and hence decide to destroy all of them. The remaining androids leave and build their own nation in the desert, which flourishes into a prospering city. While the human nation suffers big time. Now humans made the mistake of starting a foolish war against the robots

 After a long fight and another evolution of the machines, the machines win the war against the humans. They now feed of the humans as a power source and created the computer generated virtual reality of the matrix to keep them sedated.



 The World leaders in this short movie claimed that the robots weren't the same as humans, that they were a lower class, created by the humans to fulfill their own desires. And that they don’t deserve to have any civil rights or freedom of speech. Even though it was out of self-defense that the robot killed the human, it was completely ignored in the trial.

 “So should AIs have civil rights? I think, in a nutshell, my answer is that the very nature of the question reveals a fundamental absurdity in the concept. Give an AI the right to vote. Okay, now guarantee that it’s not programmed to vote in the interests of the people or company that created it. Is that even conceivable? Give an AI the right to own property. Okay, now how will it be programmed to dispose of it? Will it buy products from its programmers or the companies its programmers own stock in? How do you make sure it doesn’t?

 The bottom line is, if an AI can be programmed in such a fashion, is it really sentient in the same way that humans are sentient? Even if it can learn and understand its programming, but can’t alter the rules its creator set up for its behavior, purpose, etc., is it really conscious in the same way that humans are?

 I think the answer to that question is pretty clearly no. Without the ability to make choices or think creatively beyond the bounds of its programming, an AI, no matter how intelligent-seeming, is just a big computer program. It’s not a person.

 Okay, but stepping into the world of speculation,   let’s say that we do create an artificial general intelligence that’s as smart or smarter than human beings, and capable of making choices, writing poems, and all that. Would such an intelligence be worthy of respect? Almost certainly. “

  One way to determine if an AI is genuinely intelligent is to make it go through the Turing test. The Turing test named after Alan Turing, is a test that evaluates a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from that of a human.

 Here In his original illustrative example, a human judge engages in natural language conversations with a human and a machine designed to generate performance indistinguishable from that of a human being. All participants are separated from one another. If the judge cannot reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine is said to have passed the test.

 The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer to questions; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answers. The conversation is limited to a text-only channel such as a computer keyboard and screen so that the result is not dependent on the machine's ability to render words into audio. “



 As machines become more intelligent they will be able to adapt to changing environment and respond to new situations by designing and modifying their own programs, this is when they can be considered truly intelligent.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"> Roboethics which refers to the morality of how humans design, construct, use and treat robots and other artificially intelligent beings. It considers both how artificially intelligent beings may be used to harm humans and how they may be used to benefit humans.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"> Robot rights: the moral obligation of society towards its machines, similar to human or animal rights. These may include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law. <h2 class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt">Sources <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"> Quoted from Alex Knapp <span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/04/04/should-artificial-intelligences-be-granted-civil-rights/

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-size:12px;line-height:13.8000001907349px;">Wikipedia;  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix