Theme Of Artificial Intelligence In Blade Runner

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Have you ever dreamed that one day a robot will do everything you want for you? Artificial intelligence nowadays seems gradually replace individuals’ work. On the one hand, people are fascinated by the development. On the other hand, however, people start to worry about how to live with such artificial intelligence. The trailer of Blade Runner uses representations of artificial intelligence to sell the film, though those representations explore both our fascination and horror at the possibility of artificial intelligence.
The trailer of the movie “Blade Runner” is originally produced in 1982 and directed by Ridley Scott. The trailer’s setting is in November 2019 at Los Angeles. In the first part of the trailer, a man driving a flying police …show more content…
These “bizarre” fantasy about artificial intelligence for instance, the dark scenes, strange music, exotic individuals and small part of action not only are the strategies for selling the movie, but also immerse viewers into fear. Like Alan Turing who designed the Turing Test in 1950 to test machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to a human believes, they think once artificial intelligence has functions like thinking, it is no longer a machine. Dr. Turing once wrote, “You can see the conflict here. If you want a robot do things better than you, the only way is to try to give them wisdom. Nonetheless, if you give them your wisdom, they are no longer a machine” (Russell & Norvig, 189). People fear with ability, artificial intelligence will no longer be a machine to help people. Instead it might start to try to take the domination, and place themselves above human beings. They fear one day, artificial intelligence will be a hundred percent similar with human beings, which therefore might cause chaos in …show more content…
In the trailer, individuals are more cold-blooded while replicants are more like human being with basic emotions like fear and love. Searle's hypothesis about artificial intelligence said, “The appropriately programmed computer with the right inputs and outputs would thereby have a mind in exactly like the same sense human beings have minds” (435). Imaging someday in the future, a robot looks like human, speaks like human, being capable of doing everything as human can or even better, having emotions like human, what will happen? People cannot avoid thinking about this question. They are afraid of losing the domination of the society as we do today. Also, watching the trailer/movie, viewers always will have the question of whether Deckard is a human or replicant. Deckard has strong emotions unlike other people walking stiffly in the trailer. He struggles when he retires the replicants while the police officer who obviously characterized as a human compliment the operation without any sorrow. As most of people today are satisfied with the material wealth, they are now seeking for something spiritual. People realize that being a human is not just having the human appearance. Humanity is the thing that make people stand in the society. It is hard to have a certain judgment on what make human a human. The endless debates with doubts just lead individuals into a deeper level of fear in the
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