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We Will Be Right Back
سنعود بعد قليل
2013 · TV series · 1 season
Created by Rafi Wahbi
Ammo Najeeb, a respectable elder is hopeful to reunite with his family. After suffering a health episode, he travels to Lebanon to live among his children, who are living a lifestyle that pleases no one whatsoever!
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You've created a text-based version of a Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
Taking the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" [1] closer to reality.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
This is a Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
We're probably quite some time off from the bio-mimetic android part, but we're feeling closer and closer to the AI replacement avatar from the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back"[0]
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
These Black Mirror episodes come to mind:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back A woman gets a clone of her deceased husband
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Is_Awful A woman gets replaced by another woman
Both the movie "Her" and the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" pre-date Replika. IMHO, the Black Mirror episode is a closer fit. According to the Wikipedia page, early prototypes were trained on chat messages from one of the founder's friends.
"After a friend of hers died in 2015, she converted that person's text messages into a chatbot. That chatbot helped her remember the conversations that they had together, and eventually became Replika."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
It is weird, and as usual there is a Black Mirror episode with this exact premise. The unforeseen consequences in the episode even seem pretty realistic based on current GPT behavior.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
This is a Black Mirror episode, if anyone's wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
I realise you said movies, but some Black Mirror episodes (standalone) for your consideration:
Be Right Back
Hang the DJ
Metalhead
Edit: typo
Tangentially, this reminds me a lot of an episode in Black Mirror:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
My curiosity is tempered by the fact that I've seen this episode of Black Mirror before... :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
There's a similar plot in the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" (from an earlier season when it was still UK only).
This is literally a Black Mirror episode -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
Synopsis: "The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she discovers that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating Ash, and reluctantly decides to try it. "Be Right Back" had two sources of inspiration: the question of whether to delete a dead friend's phone number from one's contacts, and the idea that Twitter posts could be made by software mimicking dead people."
This comment is referencing Be Right Back, a Black Mirror episode featuring this exact idea as a premise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
This concept has been explored in many sci-fi shows and movies. Example: "Be Right Back" (Black Mirror Season 2, Episode 1), "Dollhouse", "Robot", etc.
I had the same experience with "Be Right Back", the first episode of season 2. I thought the show was cynical, cutting, ruthlessly executed and a bit too polemical. And then there was this episode, which leaned on a common sci-fi plot device but took it just far enough, and stayed focused on humanity as opposed to technology. The writing displayed obviously genuine respect and empathy for human love, grief, and powerlessness - no cheap cynicism to be found. Astounding what this episode did with all of 44 minutes.
The first ever episode of Black Mirror is actually kind of weak. It gets a lot better from episode two onwards. From just one initial thought, I found Entire History of You to be an utterly fascinating exploration of the implications of immediate recall of any event in your life - how it affects our jobs, relationships and even sex. That Be Right Back explored both mourning, and also the personas we present on social media vs our real selves.
But to each their own, I guess. If you consider it trite then you consider it trite - I'd consider it to be your loss!
Perhaps a little off-topic, but would it be possible to make a chatbot whose answers or "personality" are based on somebody's emails and chat history, similar to the concept of the Black Mirror episode, Be Right Back?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)
That's the premise for a great Black Mirror episode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)
The Black Mirror episode called "Be Right Back" deals with this in an unnerving sci-fi context
Black Mirror (on Netflix) has a powerful interpretation on the implications of digital reanimation in Season 2 Episode 1, "Be Right Back", although the digital representation of the deceased human is created by an AI that reads all of the person's digital information (social media, emails, videos, etc) and emulates them.
This makes me wonder how far away something like the "Be Right Back" episode of Black Mirror, as others have already mentioned.
This seems more like another memorial service that may make sense with the kind of in-roads technology, the Internet, and social media are making into more and more lives. I think an interesting application of this would be having QR codes that match up with digital memorials like on headstones, or in-line akin to a hyper text function in epitaphs.
It's not necessarily something I might want for myself or loved ones, but this is a fascinating aspect of how people deal with death and a person's digital life.
Horrifying. This sounds exactly like "Be Right Back"[0] from the Black Mirror series.
[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2290780/
Wasn’t this an episode of Black Mirror? In particular this season 2 episode titled “Be right back”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-iZTSC9Ml8
And if you’re not familiar with the series, you really ought to give it a go! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_(TV_series)