This director needs to apologize

Chapter 369 A small counterattack
Chen Yiming and the three of them stood on one side and waited until the end credits were played on the big screen before standing in the middle.

The fans were very generous and gave a big round of applause, which was also mixed with cheers. The atmosphere at the scene was very good.

After a brief pause in applause, the three of them bowed solemnly, which led to another half-minute of applause.

Chen Yiming interrupted and said, "Thank you very much for coming to support us in the middle of the night. I personally feel that I cannot deserve your applause and enthusiasm.

A few days ago, more than one person gave me feedback, saying that this movie was mysterious and unrealistic, and that it would be released during the Spring Festival to create trouble for the audience.

There are also many voices on the Internet criticizing me, thinking that I have forgotten my roots, committed a literary youth disease, and deliberately set up barriers for the audience to watch movies.

I believe that among you, there will also be inconsistencies in your understanding of the story.

Let me make it clear first that there is no such thing as watching this movie multiple times before you can understand it. I definitely don’t mean to force you to watch it a second time or a third time. If any of you feel confused after watching it, that must be it. There was something wrong with my filming. The problem was all with me as the director and had nothing to do with the actors, behind the scenes, or the audience.

OK, having clarified this premise, we will take this opportunity to have a brief exchange here. In order not to delay the theater staff from going home early for the New Year, the three of us will each answer three questions. Let’s make a quick decision, okay? "

A forest of arms immediately appeared in the audience, and Chen Yiming pointed at a boy in the middle of the front row.

Let me tell you, I filmed the scene in the ward at the end more than ten or twenty times, and each time the lines were slightly different. Director Chen didn’t give me any hints and just left me there. When it comes to acting, I have no choice but to arrange and combine them according to my own understanding.

In other words, she is not completely bad. She definitely has bad intentions for the protagonist, but humans and AI are not easy to compare. Who among us has not formatted a computer? "

I feel that in this movie, the positions of AI and humans are not naturally antagonistic. It does not mean that AI will treat humans as enemies once it awakens.

The discussion atmosphere also became heated. The third audience member who was called directly asked Chen Yiming why he thought of telling the story like this. AI is on the positive side and humans are on the negative side. There are almost no similar settings in past science fiction films.

But I think the conclusion of the bad woman’s coffin is a bit arbitrary. Although the researcher deceived the protagonist in key details, her main motivation was to prevent her husband from saving the player in the accident. Changing the memory of her husband was just incidental. .

As a result, now that I have watched the finished film, I know what that line means, and I became a bad woman because of my ignorance.

Song Jia's answer was overwhelming, and the girls in the screening room gave her warm applause. Indeed, for female viewers, knowing that the only female character is not bad to the end immediately improves the movie-watching experience.

Of course, it is unrealistic to ask AI to sacrifice itself for others. There is no way for AI to empathize with the life and death of human beings.

In other words, the so-called machine ethics is not a realistic issue for the time being.

Pan Yueming replied, "As for how AI will think about problems after awakening its self-awareness, there is actually no fixed model. Personally, when designing the character, I consider him as a child who matures rapidly. of.

Therefore, when memory may be in danger, AI’s first consideration is always self-protection. "

Song Jia had quite the spirit of acting. Before speaking, she punched Chen Yiming, then pointed at the latter and said, "I am the victim, and this is the real villain behind the scenes.

The next girl asked Song Jia, "Is the researcher a villain and a bad woman?"

Chen Yiming thought for a while and replied, "I don't intend to discuss the ethical issues of artificial intelligence. I personally think that this issue has no solution at this stage and lacks the value of discussion. After all, with the current level of science and technology, weak artificial intelligence is still in the laboratory stage, and strong artificial intelligence is still in the laboratory stage." There is no hope of application of intelligence in our lifetime.

The male protagonist may not be dissatisfied with the status of NPC, but he must cherish the memory of the past. AI has no body, or the virtual world is their body. The key to distinguishing them from each other is their respective memories.

The little brother's question was actually not for Chen Yiming but for Pan Yueming, "Teacher Pan, the protagonist you played chose to stay in the virtual world at the end. I can't figure out the reason for this. Didn't he already agree to the researcher's self-sacrifice before?" Did you save anyone?"

The script he gave me was incomplete from the beginning. During the filming, it was all about a hammer and a stick. The actors had no idea what the story was going to be like. Today, like you, I watched the entire film for the first time.

There have been many warnings about the misuse of technology in the past, but not many such as this one.

What I'm interested in is the relationship between humans and AI. To be more specific, it's the relationship of trust. Computers faithfully follow instructions input by humans, and humans also have natural trust in the information fed back by computers.

Is this trust due to the reliability of computers? Obviously not, because everyone knows that computers can make mistakes and have bugs. To put it in a more anthropomorphic way, we trust computers because they are rational creatures, their actions follow fixed rules and logic, and their behavior is predictable.

Human beings are not completely rational, and sometimes they are more perceptual and emotional.

It is very interesting to examine the relationship between humans and AI from this perspective. Does humans’ dominance over AI stem from the other party’s absolute rationality?

Our ancient Chinese people used a common saying to summarize this phenomenon, that is, a gentleman can be deceived, which means that a virtuous gentleman will be deceived by reasonable lies.

There are similar jokes in modern society. If you are decent, you will suffer. Whoever makes trouble will take advantage. I think everyone will have their own feelings about this sentence.

So when I was conceiving this story, my position was on the AI ​​side. The NPCs in the virtual Chongqing City were like children learning to speak, in the transitional stage from what to why.

In the story, humans in the future world enjoy the convenience brought by the development of artificial intelligence with peace of mind, and explore more possibilities unscrupulously, including a female researcher who is one of the creators of the virtual Chongqing City.

The only person who empathizes with the NPC is the husband of the female researcher. The reason is precisely because in that highly evolved society, the evolution of his personal consciousness has not kept up with the average level of society.

Most of the people here today are young people, and many of them play video games. I think you all can understand the reason I mentioned.

Of course, I have always advocated that the film escapes the control of the director after it is completed and enters the process of interaction between image text and subjective feelings. There is no need for you to be influenced by me when recalling the plot. In your mind, maybe this film tells It’s totally fine to tell a story that doesn’t make sense. "

It turned out that Chen Yiming's "humility" was very useful to the young audience, and he received another round of applause.

Then the three of them answered a question each. Chen Yiming announced that the exchange was over and went back to his home, and then he was about to retreat with the manager. Before turning around, he saw the late girl who was sitting next to him on the second row of seats running quickly. He came over with a worried look on his face.

Chen Yiming stopped, and the girl came closer and said a little embarrassedly, "I'm sorry Narukami, I didn't know you were sitting next to me, and you said a lot of bad things before. Don't take it to heart. What the boss said is absolutely not my intention.”

Well, this person did not stop complaining while watching the movie. He said a lot of vulgar words targeting Chen Yiming, and even criticizing the movie was considered a polite word.

Although Chen Yiming had been dozing off with his arms folded, almost every time he woke up, the girl next to him was chatting with his male companion.

He believed that there were many viewers who had similar experiences to the girl, but they knew in advance that the crew was in the audience, so they deliberately saved face for the three of them.

Therefore, Chen Yiming is completely indifferent to the girls' complaints. Being misunderstood is the fate of every creator, and being complained about is the obligation of every director. What is there to be angry about? At least they didn't ask him to ask for a refund.

So Chen Yiming waved his hand to indicate that it was okay, and took the initiative to take the paper and pen in the girl's hand and sign her name. Since he was not prepared, the paper was a thick tissue and the pen was an eyebrow pencil, which made Chen Yiming's already ugly handwriting even more ugly.

Seeing Chen Yiming stop and sign autographs, other spectators naturally gathered around him. Chen Yiming could only treat everyone equally, and even Pan Yueming and Song Jia failed to leave.

By the time we saw off the audience and returned home in the car, it was almost three o'clock in the morning.

He couldn't sleep yet. After contacting the staff in Imperial City and Chongqing City, it was confirmed that the other two road shows had been successfully completed and the people had been sent home. Chen Yiming was completely relieved and fell on the bed like a stone and fell into a deep sleep.

I slept until three o'clock in the morning, washed up, had lunch, and had to leave again. The road show on the first day of the new year was still in Shanghai. Lao Jia arranged three road shows for Chen Yiming and the others on the grounds that they did not need to travel, one in the afternoon, one in the evening, and one in the evening. field, highlighting a full intensity.

During dinner, the first round of statistics came out.

In terms of box office, the box office ranking of the zero-hour show is roughly in line with the film schedule ratio. An Yue, who received an average of 26% of the film schedule, won the first championship, with a single box office of 3400 million.

The new God of Gamblers movie, which is three points behind in the film schedule, ranked second with 3 million, and the sequel to 2700D Journey to the West ranked third with 3 million.

Next, "The Thirteenth Floor" staged a small counterattack. Although the film schedule was 2 points behind the Gallic co-production, the box office at the midnight show was more than 400 million ahead, with a single box office of nearly 1900 million. Ranked fourth.

Facts have proved that the fighting ability of fans of best-selling books is relatively mediocre, a little better than that of children, because the annual box office of the annual animation movie has exceeded 10 million.

(End of this chapter)