In Ukrainian cinemas, a fantastic thriller with Sophie Tatcher ("

In fact, this is another fantasy on the topic of life with AI in parity relations. But, as usual, in situations with ribbons about artificial intelligence, ethics questions arise and just the same parity. Is it possible to exist on an equal set of slender, close to human algorithms and a person with all of it, to put it mildly, vicious imperfections?

The story begins with a sweet trip of a couple in love to the country estate of a certain Russian named Sergei.

No, not so. The story begins with a romantic meeting between a girl, Iris, and a young man, Josh, in a supermarket.. He clumsily scatters oranges, they both laugh and fall in love. Since then the heroes have been together. And then there was a trip to Sergei’s country mansion at the invitation of Josh’s friend Kat.

Events take a tragic turn when Iris, in self-defense, kills Sergei, who tried to rape her.. And then it turns out that Iris is a robot companion with whom you can simulate romantic relationships and have sex. In general, it can be controlled from a smartphone, just like a smart home, where you can run a bath of water or turn on the washing machine by giving a command from the car on the way home.

Thus, the program in the gadget offers to choose the “companion” or “companion” eye color, voice timbre, level of intelligence and even temperament. Iris's memories of her romantic acquaintance with Josh are just another program that. you can choose from an extensive catalog of dating scenarios offered by the robot development company.

Such an Android is not able to lie to its master, his memory can be dropped at any moment to factory settings, relying memories. That is, the owner of the bot receives absolute power over a creature almost indistinguishable from a human. True, the creators of the film endowed the bot with sensitivity to mental and physical pain, as well as emotional intelligence, thereby eliminating the only ethical difference between a real person and his artificial repetition.

The scriptwriters of the picture, deliberately or not, raised a whole layer of ethical issues that matured around the coexistence of robots and people, which is not far off. Can I become a person, and not just a carrier of perfectly coordinated algorithms? Is parity possible in relationships, where one is completely in the power of the other, and if not, what will this lead? Is the absolute power of the human being over the robot appropriate if it is able to feel? How to control permissiveness on the part of a person in conditions of absolute power at the level of personal relationships? And the main question: how long it is to \?

Focus previously wrote a review of the film "