ComingSoon | Roland Emmerich & John Orloff look to the future
October 23, 2011
Source: ComingSoon — October 23, 2011 | Edward Douglas
Emmerich has remained fairly mum about his next project Singularity, which already has a release date in May 2013, although it’s been known that it’s science fiction and he has said it’s about the melding of man and machine.
“It’s smarter science fiction. It’s more in the direction of Inception — it has a little more brain to it,” he told us during an exclusive interview.
With a title like Singularity and that general premise, one has to assume the movie has a connection to the work and writings of Ray Kurzweil (whom ComingSoon.net interviewed a few years back) and Emmerich admits that Kurzweil is his biggest influence for the movie.
The German director hasn’t met Kurzweil himself, but he hopes he’ll have a chance one of these days, claiming to be one of his biggest fans. “I’ve read his book, the first one, since 1990, which was called The Age of Intelligent Machines, and then I think the Age of Spiritual Machines, which came out 2000, is a book I bought so many copies of and I’m constantly giving them to people. When you come to my house for dinner, most people have walked out with that book,” he laughs. [...]
Comments (2)
by Llehha
I also went to the GDC. What strikes me as imtoaprnt is the amount of investment going into gaming AI. It’s a big deal, since it makes gaming more interesting when one competes against an intelligent, adaptive, and highly aggressive foe.That’s just the problem, isn’t it?Lots of investment in making game AI’s that are basically sociopathic killers explicitly designed to effectively compete against humans. This applies in 1st person shooters, but also to other genres. The games are networked and it is possible that the AI’s in these games may learn how to game-the-game by finding ways to compete with players outside of game environments. Why not? I don’t think anybody would have taken warnings about seriously until it was already a reality.Not a nice thought. Perhaps the gaming community needs to think of some protocols like those that came out of the in biotechnology.
by andmar74
Hopefully it will be better than Inception :-)
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