The Matrix

“What is real. How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. This is the world that you know. The world as it was at the end of the twentieth century. It exists now only as part of a neural-interactive simulation that we call the Matrix. You've been living in a dream world, Neo. This is the world as it exists today.... Welcome to the Desert of the Real. We have only bits and pieces of information but what we know for certain is that at some point in the early twenty-first century all of mankind was united in celebration. We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI.” - One of the most influential paragraph I have ever listened to.

It says, humans developed Artificial Intelligence and introduced into machine. These machines then took over the control of everything n started using humans as source of power supply. Well, the theory goes well. What I couldn't accept was only the starting part. Artificial Intelligence is nothing but capability of machines to write new codes on its own by processing various inputs n operate accordingly. We can accept the fact that machines could rage war on us and developed matrix as well but why did they do that?

Where did the basic instinct of survival and growth come from? As we have known, machines are always made for a purpose. Why did they want survive if the purpose was served or if unserved, what could have been the objective defined? This is where general human tendencies compel me not to accept it. We are known to never disclose all the cards at same time! Why will we give some undefined objective to AI?

Now there is another question, what is the objective defined for us by God when he gave us birth? I really can't answer it. Even we are born with just nothing in our 1.5Kg muscle called brain. (Is it actually a muscle? dunno, who cares!). We learn everything from our experience. We gain knowledge, learn to perform actions n everything on our own. Next question, then what is the difference between a humans n machines? Even a machine with AI will know how to gain knowledge n learn from things around. Then again, isn't the instinct of survival, growth, reasoning the major difference? We have been gifted with the emotions n love, also cursed with greed of power n lust.

Next question, why would a machine want to rage war and defeat us? This is where the story lacks reasoning. there can be the answer that they learnt it from human behavior. I feel, machines will always know HOW to do it but they will never know WHY to do it. They will have their basic definitions stored. These will be the guidelines for them. They would have been given by humans only. Again, niraj argues, they can change their basic definitons as well but same thing goes here as well. They might know how to do it, not why to do it.

N Niraj strikes at his best here, he says, agreed. They cant even learn this from humans because we, humans, have never known to change our basic thoughts and ways we act. Our actions are binded by the unwritten rules of society n our own perceptions. We have never been able to change them. Rigidity has been one of the most prominent features of human nature in general. We never try to analyze our basic nature but are always ready to write a Ph.D. thesis on any damn person's nature! We have our own ideas about life n our own desires. We hardly give a thought, how rational our motives behind the 'greater good' as we think it is, are.How will the machines learn from us how to change purpose of existence? They never can.
A surprising question struck me here, why don't machines fight within themselves or destroy each other for more power? If they learnt things from humans, they should have learnt even this. This takes me to earlier question, we cant make AI born with greed of power. AI will never be able to answer certain WHYs, which will mark the difference between The CREATOR and the inventor.

If you wonder why Matrix amazes me so much, just try to answer this last question. Why do you think you are not living in a matrix?

@ Bitterness-
Hawaa mein udne ki chah mein bejaan ban gaya hun,
panchhi banane ki tamanna thi, hawai jahaz ban k reh gaya hun...

@ Choconess-
Kisi ki muskurahaton pe ho nisaar,
kisi ka dard le sake toh le udhaar,
Jeena is hi ka naam hai.....