Reviews by Henry Mastz

I enjoyed this film. However, with that said, the film ends with a very pessimistic message, or from another perspective, one serious warning to all human beings. As a side note, after having watched this film, I began wondering if it might be that for current human mind it is easier to imagine pessimistic futures rather than optimistic ones. Both futures, pessimistic and optimistic, either of them can happen. And the pessimistic ones are much more likely to happen if we don't have the optimistic ones. The pessimistic future there in the film is one of those futures that can happen. However so, as you are about to notice, my strong conviction tells that we should try to figure out more of the optimistic ones, to put our minds to work to paint optimistic futures more and therefore less pessimistic ones as our resources are more occupied imagining the optimistic futures instead, and to work to make them happen as the next step. Now, with all that said, the film Upgrade, this film shows legit concerns about the case such as when artificial general intelligence is finally created. The book, At The Edge, which I Henry Mastz have written, is going to give a solution to the problem that we all face, - the problem that the film Upgrade well illustrated, to prevent happening what the film Upgrade brilliantly emphasized. The solution will be to make the upgrade to our own intelligence of our own instead, inside in our own consciousness. This upgrade to our consciousness needs to be smooth segue-way of upgrades of narrow artificial intelligence systems. In the case of the film Upgrade, there were two general intelligence systems (or consciousnesses) trapped in one body, one was much less capable and other was much more capable, and there was competition for control (and the less aware system had no chance of gaining control in that case as it was well illustrated). If there would only be one general intelligence, like there are in our brains right now, there would be no such sense that somebody is killed off or switched off from the control of movement of purpose.

It is like the film, Back To The Future, but in 2018. The message of this film appears very positive. We cannot forget the real world (the world in which most of us still live most of the time right now), which continues to be the backbone of all the other worlds we create, at least for quite some time. I believe to be true that in the future, we will go more and more into the virtual worlds. That is the future. A good future. And the film shows strong respect towards the positive things that the virtual worlds will bring us.