Chris Campbell wrote:
The Tachikomas are easily the highlight of the GITS series, and IMO
they are also (somewhat ironically) the characters in the series with the
most depth. Their actions at the end of both seasons were, for me,
I think it's neither ironical nor accidental. The Tachs are an
emerging sentient robot/AI who remains human's friend and ally. In
other shows, robots are either "dumb servants", like Gundam, Data,
SW's Droids or "intelligent bane" like Skynet, Matrix, Code 2501. Now
we are watching the birth and development a new AI that still remain
loyal to humans. That means we can sit back and watch the emergent
intelligent without being threatened by it. It must be as exciting as
watching a baby learns such otherwise mundane thing as walking and
eating. Better than a baby, you actually don't know beforehand what
the Tachs will figure out. Having a non-human but human-friendly
evolving AI will teach you something truly novel.
were the instigators behind a Matrix-like universe, where they force
humanity into dormancy in an effort to protect us from ourselves. They
I'm surprised no one followed up on this. I am not so familiar with
pop sci-fic. But it's been done loads of time. If Asimov didn't
write it himself, some of his disiples did. Or perhaps it's iRobot
(Will Smith)... Or Appleseed the new movie? And I would bet Star
Trek had visited that topic at least once.
would, naturally, be programmed with Asimov's laws, and faced with no
way to keep us from killing each other they put us into cold storage until
Considering Asimov himself use the various fundamental flaws of his
laws as central theme for many of his short stories, I'd think that
GITS staffs knows better than to hard-wire Asimov's laws into anything
interesting. In fact, the Tachs themselves use a kind of Asimovian
logic loop to "crash" one of the female "secertary" robots.
Anyway, Tachs are armed with lethal weapons so they are purposed to
harm people (1st law), they can go AWOL or "acquire" contraband
parts(2nd law) and they sacrifice themselves without human explicit or
implicit instruction (3rd law).
It would never work, I suppose, but the general setup has a lot more
going for it than does that of the Matrix. <shrug>
Definitely. We kind of had this discussion when the Matrix sequels
came out. The human battery idea is so ridiculous that making sequels
forces the audience to pick at old scabs.
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Dr. Core
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