Nolan started thinking about the subject, he said, in 2006 when he started writing Interstellar. The perfidious board had become, since 1968 of Kubrick 2001, a cliché.
“You are waiting for it to turn badly and blows the crew of the hatch and seizes the mission and takes over – the intrigue of 2001, which is one of my favorite films of all time – but this is not what is happening,” said Nolan. “They are just the best of us, loyal, courageous, consistent, intelligent. So you try to create a different emotional relationship. ”
But working with Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg on a space film of $ 165 million is a slow and meticulous job. While this film crossed development, Jonathan Nolan launched producer JJ Abrams on an idea he had developed by writing The black knightwhere Batman uses a large surveillance system based on mobile phones to hunt the Joker. “It’s too much power,” explains the character of Morgan Freeman before destroying it.
Nolan understood at the time when you need neural networks to process this vast flood of data. It was one of the many things he hadn’t had a space to address the three Batman films. Another was that Batman still fights on a series of super-Villains climbing, rarely resolving the kind of trivial crimes that fill serialized comics.
“The strange and unusual thing in Batman Is, of course, Batman, “he said. He reconfigured it for CBS in a procedural formula of which “A-Story” resolves a different and autonomous crime while his “history B” sometimes advances a wider plot, in a different district of New York every week.
The character of Bruce Wayne was fractured in a reclusive billionaire and a damaged vigilante. The rich technologist built AI for the American government to defeat terrorist threats – but now exploits its own program saving ordinary people whose death would be “unimportant” for government policy. And with a typical procedural fashion, Nolan built a small family around his main characters, including a corrupt cop from New York and a woman whose religious belief in AI transforms it into a kind of cyborg.
Nolan, who counted on the Nobelist Kip Thorne for scientific details in Interstellaralso went to the source of the AI. He found Lights AI like Elon Musk and the co -founders Deepmind Demis Hassabis and Mustafa Suleyman, and attributes them – and a strong writer room – for premonitory technical details.
As the show developed, he also continued to disentangle the morally ambiguous theme of the way AIS must be treated. The machine, initially sinister, becomes vulnerable, sympathetic and even heroic. In the last episode, the protagonist, played by Jim Caviezel, gives his life to save him.
Person of interest Hit Big: It was the fifth most watched show in America in the 2012-2013 season, sandwiched between NCIS: Los Angeles And American idol. But he never had much critical recognition and never caught a Zeitgeist whose attention was elsewhere. (There was an interest in surveillance at the time of the revelations of Edward Snowden.) A critic that took Person of interest Seriously, Kate Aurthur de Buzzfeed, called that “The most subversive program on television.”
Nolan told Arthur in a 2014 interview that he was “quite confident that we are going to see the emergence of AG in the next 10 years”, which seemed bizarre at the time to direct them who even understood that he was referring to “artificial general intelligence”, and now seems right.
