This week we had to watch an episode of black mirror called “Be right back”. The episode started with a casual couple who’s names are Martha and Ash just hanging out a living good. Then Ash has to go out to work and when he’s out he gets killed in a car accident. Marsha Is home wondering where he is and cries to her sister, then eventually the police tell her that her husband has died in a car accident and she’s absolutely devastated.The wake was a couple weeks later and her friend at the wake told her about a way to deal with the pain of losing him and a way to move on. It’s an app on the phone the allows you to talk to an AI version of the person you lost and the AI will respond the same way that the person who dies would. Martha is also pregnant and finds this out shortly after he death of Ash. So Martha eventually uses this app and gets attached to it. she upgraded the app so that she can talk to he AI on the phone now and she was quite fond of using It and becomes extremely attached to the app. The episode starts to really speed up the intensity when Martha finds out that there is an upgrade where you can get an actual replica of th person that died with this very unique technology and she foolishly upgrades and gets “Ash” back. At first I thought it was actually very interesting and cool the way the technology can quite actually look like, sound like, and somewhat behave like the dead Ash, but as the episode went on it got really weird.As the episode went on, Martha slowly started to lose faith in the technology when she began noticing the little differences that the AI technology had with the real Ash and everything was downhill from there. They got in a huge fight at this hill and she told him to jump off it and you could see the conflict that she had with wanting him in her life and just moving on.So does she keep the AI? YES!!!! She stores him in the attic and years later her daughter and herself visit it.
Personally I would never use this technology if we had it in the world today. It can literally only lead to bad things. I can understand if you are a spiritual person and do the boards and stuff like that where you can speak to the dead, but this is just way too far.I think it will do more damage to you rather than help you get over your loss.
I feel like the black mirror episodes could be telling us what we could be In store for in our society and technology, and i’m terrified. I think the technology aspect is that it won’t stop getting better and more interesting as far as what you can do, but I feel like some of these thing should never be invented.
Do you think that there will be something invented from these shows?
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Hello! I agree with you in what you are saying about how these types of technology can only lead to bad outcomes. I agree with you because this, in a way, defies the natural cycle of life and it disrupts it as well. Things are meant to be the way they are meant to be and there is no cheating life and what comes along with it. To answer your question, yes something will be invented or I know some already have been invented. An example of that is the metalhead episode.. scary. I agree that some things should just be left to the imagination and not invented because sometimes the cons outweigh the positives.
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I think this is a very well written blog! I think many of your points make a lot of sense and the idea that if technology is used the wrong way it can create bad outcomes. I look at it as we feel that the technology that we’re making is going to benefit us at every occasion, but in reality it doesn’t. That technology can either help or harm us even if the intent is good.
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I think sometime in the future is people start to throw out the ethics of cloning and start to try and do human clone we could see something like this happen. I do not think we will every get to that point because just about everyone agrees that it not ethically right to start making human clones. While clones of different plants and animals have been made to either help them survive or just come back from pretty much being wiped out. These are about the only good outcomes of cloning and if something with humans does ever happen I also agree that it could have a very negative effect.
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Hello! I loved your interpretation of the Black Mirror episode. The episode was full of interesting twists and turns. The relationship between artificial Ash and Martha is extreme but not completely unreasonable. We may find ourselves in a society that socially accepts people who find intimacy with AI’s or robotic systems. For me personally, this is out of character. But to certain individuals this may be a way to cope or deal with grief. Peoples tendencies vary from person to person and influence their surrounding culture. I think we will continue to evolve and present new angles of technology. Keep up the great work!
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I totally agree with you when you say you would never use this technology to talk to a dead person. I think you hit it spot on that sometimes this great technology that is made by these people for good use, can eventually become too sophisticated for us to handle. Some people might even make use of the technology for a bad reason. Overall this was a great blog and I really enjoyed reading it!
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