THE FUTURE IS HERE

7 Days of Artificial Intelligence

A short film on the intelligence explosion.

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If God created his universe in 7 days; what could AI do to ours?
The arrival of artificial intelligence promises the Intelligence Explosion – where singularity would lead to an exponential increase in A.I. capabilities.
This Super Intelligence could lead to the arrival of an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent being.
How would humanity receive this new entity? Would it be omnibenevolent?

This multimedia essay comes is in two parts.
This video, and an essay developing concepts in detail, which can be found at http://tinyurl.com/7daysofai.
Created as a final project for CCT495 by Keizac Lee, Marcus Lee, Kunal Rathore, and Pierre Roquet, under the supervision of Dr. Jeremy Packer.

Soundtrack:
– Ryan Taubert, Anomaly, ‘Bayt Lahm’;
– Ryan Taubert, Anomaly, ‘We wish it was never light’;
– Ryan Taubert, Anomaly, ‘ Ryan’s Original Sketches’;

Movies, in order or appearance:
0:16 – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
0:26 – WarGames (1983)
1:11 – Minority Report (2002)
1:30 – Her (2013)
1:45 – Transcendence (2014)
1:56 – Ex Machina (2015)
2:08 – The Matrix (1999)
2:13 – A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
2:27 – HOME (2009)
2:40 – I, Robot (2004)
2:56 – Blade Runner (1981)
4:23 – Fully Automated Luxury Communism (2015)
4:47 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
5:44 – The Day After (1983)