Ken Gumbs takes a different approach in his documentary about the singularity (when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence). Most film makers would spend half of the movie predicting when it could happen, Ray Kurzweil style. Gumbs skips that and gets right to the big questions. What is life? What is intelligence? What does it mean to be human? What is a soul? How will human society deal with the difference between those who go cyborg and those who don’t? What use will super intelligent machines have for humans? Fascinating stuff.
Gumbs interviews Hugo de Garis, Kevin Warwick, Anne Foerst, and Nick Bostrom. The rough cut is available at Google Video:
80 minutes. Link to Video
He’s about to get started on his next film about living forever.
4 Door Films
