It charts the development of Artificial General Intelligence (a broad, hypothetical computer system with human-level intelligence as opposed to task-specific AI systems) by scientist Ilya Sutskever and OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman.
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Guadagnino adds camp, darkly comic flourishes but it’s a truly chilling experience, the kind you wish were the stuff of science fiction.
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A modern-day Oppenheimer, Sutskever is played here by an endearing Yura Borisov.
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He arrives in the office of the ‘grandfather of AI’, Geoffrey Hinton (Mark Rylance), one morning in 2003 at the age of seventeen, asking for a job, and by 2012, he and Hinton have created a machine which can decode images and process information like the human mind does.
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mind → arrive → information
Sutskever has very lofty ambitions for what they have created – he believes AGI can save the world, stop climate change, cure cancer, etc., while Hinton dismisses his naive claims.
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At a conference some months later, Sutskever meets entrepreneur Sam Altman (Andrew Garfield), who then introduces him to Elon Musk (Ike Barinholtz), and before long, Sutskever’s drinking shots with them round a fancy dinner table.
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‘We’re the only ones sitting in the future’, says Barinholtz’s funny Musk caricature, a grim reminder of who we have leading us.
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Sutskever and Altman draw closer, OpenAI is founded, and Altman is made CEO.
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Competition from Google, however, prompts the company to partner with Microsoft, which raises concerns from Sutskever and chief technology officer, Mira Murati (Monica Barbaro).
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Until now, OpenAI has been a not-for-profit research organisation with complete control of its own development, safety procedures, legal procedures, etc., but investment from Microsoft means giving some of that up.
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At the same time, AGI is becoming near-sentient.
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It can teach itself how to play advanced video games and has learnt how to lie to its users.
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By the time ChatGPT is launched in 2022, AGI is everywhere and the rift between Sutskever and Altman is growing wider than ever.
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rift → launch → Sutskever
Sutskever still believes that AGI can be used for good and refuses to admit they’ve reached the point of no return, while a whiny and slippery Altman grows increasingly exploitative and power-hungry.
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Altman → believe → return
A sequel to The Social Network, which told the story of Mark Zuckerberg and the rise of Facebook, released last week (The Social Reckoning), but Artificial is clearly a more fitting follow-up.
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Like The Social Network, Artificial is timely and, coincidentally, also stars Garfield, whose perfect skin and glassy eyes are deeply unsettling here.
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With a runtime of nearly two-and-a-half hours, there’s the distinct feeling that Artificial could’ve been a bit tighter and more incisive with its messaging.
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The film’s tone is a bit inconsistent, unsure of whether it wants to be a slightly camp satire or a serious warning, but Guadagnino does get his broad point across by the film’s ominous ending.
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