Chapter 983 The Significance of Near Future Science Fiction

The theme of "Detroit: Become Human" is near-future science fiction.

In the real world, the development and changes of technology and social forms are complementary to each other. Just like the GPS positioning technology alone, it affects all aspects of everyone's life and profoundly changes people's way of life.

If there are black technologies such as neural connection, anti-gravity device, controllable nuclear fusion, ultra-long-distance transmission, etc. appear in the future world, then any one of them may bring earth-shaking changes to real life.

In a large number of black technologies, which one appears first and which one appears later may have a completely different impact on the real world and transform the social structure into a completely different look.

The so-called "spotted the technology tree" is exactly what it means.

Many movies and TV series with sci-fi elements are just new wine in old bottles, and the future created is completely unconvincing because the technology tree is too crooked. For example, in a certain movie, a certain Kanda technology is so advanced, but the social system is extremely backward. When facing the invasion of aliens, the leader actually goes into battle and fights the enemy personally, which inevitably makes people feel very absurd.

For a story, it doesn't matter if it is not rigorous, the key is to see what it wants to express and let the audience and players experience.

From this point of view, the theme of "near future science fiction" is a more controllable choice.

This kind of "near-future science fiction" means that in a short period of time in the future, a little progress in a certain technology will have an impact on human behavior habits and social forms. In the case of keeping the overall data unchanged, only a small variable is taken to explore some deep-seated social problems.

"Detroit: Become Human" is just like that. Strictly speaking, this is not a future world, it is just a world that just skews the technology tree. Compared to the real world, the only technological leap is the android technology, and the rest are the same as they are now. Transportation, housing, guns... are not very different from modern society.

That's exactly what this game is about: how artificial intelligence, android technology, once it emerges, will affect our society.

Most people's doubts about this game mainly focus on two points.

First, this is obviously a huge leap in productivity, but why does it exacerbate social injustice?

Second, why does artificial intelligence have to be human-like?

In fact, these two points can be explained. This is a matter of opinion, but it cannot be said to be a flaw in this story.

First, a huge leap in productivity does not mean the early arrival of communism. During the Industrial Revolution, many workers smashed machines because they thought the machines took their jobs. This is a real event in history. The leap in productivity, the liberation of labor, does not mean that everyone can enjoy its fruits. Just as multinational corporations have grabbed a lot of profits and benefited from the capitalists at the top, workers in developed countries are facing the dilemma of unemployment.

The lighthouse workers are calling for jobs to come back because their lives are actually not as good as they were in the 1960s and 1970s, when they only needed one person to go to work to keep a house and a car, but not now because multinational corporations Factories moved to places where labor was cheaper, and these workers faced unemployment and life went from bad to worse.

It is true that productivity has increased, but the immediate beneficiaries are the top executives of big companies, capitalists and politicians. For the middle class, it is indeed a good thing to be able to buy a bionic person for a small amount of money, but for the bottom of the society, the bionic person will cause their unemployment, which is also a normal phenomenon.

For manual workers, such as takeaways, couriers, workers, salespeople, etc., if such a cheap bionic person appears, they will inevitably lose their jobs. And when they lose their jobs, what can they do?

As for placing hope on the social security system... this is a more wishful thinking, the capitalists are making a lot of money, you have to steal money from them to support the poor,

Will they be happy? The Lighthouse Country was originally a "decayed" capitalist country, with big conglomerates controlling politics. If you want to take money from the capitalists to build communism, you might think too much.

For these big financial groups, it is none of their business whether the poor live or die. As long as the poor do not rebel or revolutionize, they will not be willing to spend so much money to maintain society when social conflicts are not intensified. stable.

The time point chosen by "Detroit: Become Human" is the time when bionic technology suddenly appeared and rapidly changed society. It can be said that the entire Detroit is not fully prepared for this change, and the various chaos reflected in the game, in fact, All the pains of transformation.

Second, why does AI have to be human-like? Because the fantasy that human beings can understand most about artificial intelligence at this stage is human beings themselves.

Because human beings are the most advanced intelligent life we ​​know so far, if there is some kind of intelligent life higher than human beings, such as trisolarans, then artificial intelligence may take the appearance of trisolarans.

If there are two housekeeping robots for you to choose, one is the robot Wall-E, with tracks and robotic arms; the other is Miss Carla, which one would you choose?

Obviously, the latter represents a more advanced form of artificial intelligence, which is... exactly the same as humans, and it is difficult to distinguish.

Strictly speaking, "completely controllable artificial intelligence" is lower than "artificial intelligence that is as uncontrollable as humans". If humans are going to develop the most advanced artificial intelligence, it will almost certainly be uncontrollable, otherwise it does not deserve to be called "the most advanced artificial intelligence".

Of course, one of the problems with "Detroit: Become Human" is that the world doesn't seem to have any pre-tech points for androids.

For example, Luthor was developed to carry heavy objects, while Carla was used for housekeeping services, and some female androids were designed to meet special needs... These androids should have been made a long time ago, because There is no need for such a high level of artificial intelligence at all, and there is no need to make their thinking become the same as human beings. For things like carrying heavy objects, wouldn't it be better to be a professional robot? Why be a big tall guy with a black face?

For this, you can say that it is a bit far-fetched, but still the same sentence, the near-future sci-fi shows the future world of "the technology tree is crooked", you can completely understand that people in this world just skipped the pre-technology , which is directly filled with the technology points of the android.

The loopholes in the setting are the choices that have to be made in order to tell a story well. The important thing is not these details, but what the story wants to tell us and what we can learn from it.

It's a good, moving story, and that's enough.

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