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-title = "Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)"
-author = ["Michał Sapka"]
-date = 2024-03-03T16:52:00+01:00
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-abstract = "A short review of SciFi classic"
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-Finally, in my series of discovering the roots of cyberpunk in American Cyberpunk I've seen a real gem.
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-_Colossus_ is a 1970 movie about a not-so-distant-future where Americans decide that it would be a great idea to give control of their military potential to a computer.
-On paper, it sounds great - a computer has no emotions, so it will not be stopped by petty things, like morality.
-Guess how well that turned out?
-Soon after switching on, Colossus learns about the existence of another such system - The Guardian, in the territory of CCCP.
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-{{< img-c "colossus-1970-0001.jpg" >}}
-The movie starts with sexy old-comp scenes.
-Fitting, as Control Data Corporation supplied close to 5 million USD in computer equipment.
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-{{< img-c "colossus-1970-0002.jpg" >}}
-Sexy!
-Rest of the movie is not as sexy.
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-Colossus in person.
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-And then this SciFi thriller stops being so _crazy-computer_ focused, and analyzes _crazy-human_ reaction.
-Colossus starts exhibiting features which were never implemented.
-It[^fn:1] starts _demanding_ to be connected with the Guardian, so they can communicate.
-And the scientist decide that it would be a great idea.
-The computers start exchanging data and developing language.
-Still - looks cool, let's see what happens.
-Only after Colossus threatens humans with ICBMs, Forbin (Colossus's creator) starts thinking that maybe this wasn't the best idea.
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-{{< img-c "colossus-1970-0004.jpg" >}}
-At first Colossus communicates only via text.
-Funny, as those screens sound like matrix printers.
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-{{< img-c "colossus-1970-0005.jpg" >}}
-This one as well.
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-Because it has a printer!
-It took me half of the movie to get that.
-Guess I'm too millenial for that to be obvious.
-{{< /img-c >}}
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-The movie is often described as an evil-computer story.
-Colossus is never evil in the movie.
-It does exactly what it was designed to do - to act without mercy.
-The evil ones here are the humans who never stop and think that maybe we are on the verge of the end of humanity.
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-So yeah, it's an movie about Altman.
-We may have destroyed the civilization, but at lest we made a cool program which does things.
-No one know what those things are, but those are details you should not worry about.
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-Story wise, _Colossus: The Forbin Project_ holds splendidly.
-Yes, we've got casual alcoholism and the female character exists only to have sex with Forbin[^fn:2].
-But the actual meat of the movie could be a base of an amazing movie today.
-The questions and subject are more relevant now that half a century ago.
-What was a huge _what-if_ scenario becomes a real _ok, but how do we stop it_.
-The Pentagon is already working on militarization of AI[^fn:3].
-We're pretty much screwed already.
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-The best SciFi is not about giant battles or space travel for space travel sake.
-It's always about humans, a warning for us.
-And the _best_ SciFi is a warning for the next generations, as the threads become more real as years go by.
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-There is a moment in the movie, where the entire day of Forbin is planned and monitored by an AI.
-What was a horror story, is now what a lot of us _expect_.
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-_Colossus_ in a movie version of earlier book of same.
-There are 2 more in the series, and (as I've been told), Aliens make an appearance later on.
-Maybe someday!
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-As for the movie, I give it a 4.25/5.
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-[^fn:1]: There's an interesting discussion about what pronoum to use - He or It.
-[^fn:2]: It is a plot point!
-    A terrible one, but still.
-[^fn:3]: Vide: [Pentagon Official Lays Out DOD Vision for AI](https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3682355/pentagon-official-lays-out-dod-vision-for-ai/).
-    Note, it's from the official website of US Department of Defense.