Four episodes and I can't believe they left it hanging...................
Then I went on and watched Westworld.
Mind boggling Sci-fi series starring none other than Anthony Hopkins. & Ed Harris
It's about a high tech theme park where people pay exorbitant fees to go there to have a field day. At the theme park, visitors could live out their fantasies of the Western cowboy world; they could pretend to be outlaws or any other roles they might fancy. The residents at the theme park are life-looking robots but they are highly AI and have been programmed not to cause harm or injury to the human visitors.
Frequently, the AI would be destroyed by the visitors (gun fights and other animalistic acts carried out by human visitors) hence the AIs would have to be restored at the lab before they could be put back to work. The AIs' memory would be deleted (like deleting and resetting memory chips), but it appears that some of the AIs' memories were retained over time (as they would have been recycled thousands of times, exiting and re-entering the theme park).
This show brings about questions of our humanistic behaviours when we are at play. Do we play out our real traits or do we say it's only a game? The theme park serves as an escapism outlet for people who might need to seek distractions from their real life, either to escape momentarily from their stressful real lives, or to seek relief from unpleasant realities.
Secondly, the show also brings about the evolution of AI.
The way I see it-------- we, human beings, were once robots. We were primitive & functional. Then came emotions and intelligence. Over eons, we became superior, we made robots. Now we enhance robots with AI. One day, the AIs might become so smart, incorporating complex decision makings, they might one day become main stream intelligence and we- human, might have to live by their rules if we are not careful.
Okay, enough of AI, I then watched Suits. All six seasons.
Top Manhattan corporate law firm hired a young man with questionable credentials.
Street-smart, book-smart, but still, he's considered a fraud.
How the otherwise squeaky clean, snobbish law firm became entangled with this skeleton in their closet, and how they, one after another, became afflicted with the fact that not all top bills graduate from Harvard, and their conundrum in helping to hide their dark secrets and struggling with their internal conflicts especially when they might have realised that star lawyers are born and not made.
Prince Harry's real life GF....
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