Author: piercemansfield
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ChatGPT (3.5) | Up to the Challenge, Only if AI Can Get Over Numerical and Gender-based Biases
When approaching any attempts to have an Artificial Intelligence source create a piece of script, an amount of manipulation to any AI system is required. Fundamentally, just giving an input of non-ordered words with no indicating pronouns, propositions, or other grammar functions, will not end up with the desired result. Fundamentally, the biggest reoccurring issue…
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Final Project Outline
In attempting to create a script through ChatGPT 3.5 in the previous midterm project, my results were fairly inconclusive on the creative aptitude of the artificial intelligence’s software. To clarity this statement, while the program was capable of taking a single director’s name and form at least a three-page script output, the inventiveness and rhetorical…
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The Matrix | Reloading Post-Humanism
When evaluating the Wachowkis’ science fiction 1999 blockbuster, The Matrix, narrative and subsequent tone of the film chooses to take the concept of Artificial Intelligence into its most ubiquitously ambiguous narrative, at least when it comes to the perception of the real-world. Fundamentally, the film predicates itself upon the notion that the real-world, materialistic earth…
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Computer Chess | Portraying the Progress of Machine Learning Intelligence
Andrew Bujalski’s 2013 picture, Computer Chess, chooses to take a highly non-stereotypical route to examining the tech boom of the 1980s by not focusing on the sexy tech giants born in this period in the likes of Microsoft, Apple, or IBM and their respective techno-cultural icons of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, but rather the…
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The Terminator | Visions of Violence; Realities of Labor
James Cameron’s The Terminator was undoubtedly received initially as a blockbuster hit which launched the director’s career into big-budget science fiction and historical epic pictures. While the fear that presents itself in this film inherently relies on contemporary action-flick devices with the narrative following a classic chase movie of the likes of Hitchcock’s North by…
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After Yang: World-building and understanding Cultural Dominance
One of the most interesting aspects presented in After Yang seemed to be a rather modern conceptualization cultural dominance and cultural hierarchy. Fundamentally, the world-building presented here serves as a rather enlightening as it gives not only interpretation unto different uses of technology in daily lives of regular families worldwide in this contemporary interpretation, but…
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Blade Runner (1982) | Debating Consciousness, Sartre in Ridley Scott
The 82′ science-fiction now deep-rooted classic of post New-Hollywood, Blade Runner, has undoubtedly left a monumental impact on American cinematic culture which hasn’t let-up its influence well into the 21st-century; look no-further than the Dennis Villeneuve 2017 sequel to the early eighties film, Blade Runner 2049. While the movie has been held-up as a beacon…
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Chat GPT 3.5, Content Creation without Creativity
To declare that artificial-intelligence generated media has begun to threaten everyday forms of news and entertainment consumption is the understatement of the decade. While the rapidly evolving course of the media form has begun to flip entire industries on its head, with the introduction of free, online forms of artificial-intelligence engines. While the most obvious…
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Demon Seed (1977) & Restrictions on Machine Learning in AI
The 1977 film by Donald Cammell, is undoubtedly a movie that requires an audience, prepared to go through an uncomfortable viewing experience. On this regard Cammell’s work serves similarly to art-house or cult films, many of which are non-American or purposefully disassociated with Hollywood, take master Polish schools of cinema, Zulawski’s Possession (1981), or the…
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Purposes to labor in Spike Jonze’s Her
The surrealist portrayal of Los Angeles in the mid-21st century where Computer Operating Systems hold both the capabilities and sensibilities to perform the same emotional functions as a conscious human, so much so that men and women alike are getting into serious relationships with their computers, is undeniably rich in its world-building. Fundamentally Spike Jonze’s…