Colossus: The Forbin Project - AI Predictions from 1970

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Colossus The Forbin Project made many uncannily accurate predictions about AI back in 1970, and that is largely what this video focuses on. The film had an influence on many AI-based films that came after it, including the first two Terminator movies and John Badham's 'WarGames' (1983).
Info from Wikipedia: Colossus: The Forbin Project (originally released as The Forbin Project) is a 1970 American science-fiction thriller film from Universal Pictures, produced by Stanley Chase, directed by Joseph Sargent, that stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, and William Schallert. It is based upon the 1966 science-fiction novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones.
The film is about an advanced American defense system, named Colossus, becoming sentient. After being handed full control, Colossus' draconian logic expands on its original nuclear defense directives to assume total control of the world and end all warfare for the good of humankind, despite its creators' orders to stop.
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  • @mahatmarandy5977
    @mahatmarandy5977Ай бұрын

    This is an overlooked classic. For a movie with really only four or five locations, the direction just sings and dances

  • @AnonJohn143

    @AnonJohn143

    26 күн бұрын

    Ive always thought it paved the way for the Terminator series too.

  • @prte100

    @prte100

    19 күн бұрын

    the movie is really good, but the end just sucks, like they had no budget to finish a suitable end

  • @jamesdenecochea5709
    @jamesdenecochea5709Ай бұрын

    Believe it or not... My entire elementary school watched this when it was first released. We saw "...The Forbin Project", "Seven Days In May", "Fail Safe", "The Shoes Of The Fisherman", "Torn Curtain", "The Manchurian Candidate", "Judgement At Nuremberg", "The Chairman". and "OLD YELLER". "Swiss Family Robinson". To understand how much has changed... My elementary school was in California! We were "raised & educated" very differently then...

  • @Joe-jv5mm

    @Joe-jv5mm

    28 күн бұрын

    You were a Lucky Generation, before All the Madness Started 😉

  • @mickelodiansurname9578

    @mickelodiansurname9578

    27 күн бұрын

    From a sort of 50's/60's philosophical perspective 'The Shoes of the Fisherman' raised a lot of issues.... issues unaddressed to this day. (No not those issues more the financial ones) . But given their power in the US at the time I'm fairly surprised The church didn't totally screw over Anthony Quinn after he starred in that... cos they can get ... well... salty!

  • @chrismorrison3696

    @chrismorrison3696

    20 күн бұрын

    Your teacher had good taste. Wow! Shoes of the Fisherman? Great, under appreciated film.

  • @michaelburke5907
    @michaelburke5907Ай бұрын

    "THIS IS THE VOICE OF WORLD CONTROL!"

  • @kurtwinter4422

    @kurtwinter4422

    16 күн бұрын

    "YOU WILL ENJOY THE PEACE OF PLENTY OR THE PEACE OF MILLIONS OF UNBURIED CORPSES"

  • @f-14navalaviator58
    @f-14navalaviator58Ай бұрын

    I am 68 - I remember well watching this when it came out. So prescient - remember, we did not have the internet as we know it today.

  • @karmicselling4252

    @karmicselling4252

    29 күн бұрын

    This movie was released in 1970. We already had an internet of sorts by that time. Computers around the world were already connecting together and communicating information with one another by that time. The fundamental concept of a global computer communications network as already in play. Of course, we have seen a lot of evolution since then as would be expected.

  • @imoldandyoureinmyway

    @imoldandyoureinmyway

    25 күн бұрын

    @@karmicselling4252 Not really, arpanet was started in 1969 as a purely research project and there really was nothing but modems over phone lines between specific sites until the early 80's. I would say that start date of the internet was the adoption of TCP/IP in 1983

  • @edjohnson4736

    @edjohnson4736

    2 күн бұрын

    Yes certain computers were networked. I was in the military in 1974 and things like LOW and (D)ARPAnet existed.

  • @b.7944
    @b.7944Ай бұрын

    Also the cinematography is top notch. The movie looks stunning

  • @johnwilliams3075

    @johnwilliams3075

    Ай бұрын

    They did a really great job with it didn't they? Interesting shot choices, great use of depth-of-field, long tracking shots, all of it.

  • @butchkaminsky9470
    @butchkaminsky94702 ай бұрын

    That's why you always leave a trap door in basement floor for a emergency screw-up! 😂

  • @robbhahn8897
    @robbhahn8897Ай бұрын

    Well, Colossus got Forbin laid.

  • @michaelcap9550

    @michaelcap9550

    Ай бұрын

    We know what Victor did before Genoa City.

  • @sirbum1918

    @sirbum1918

    24 күн бұрын

    That happens in every movie. 🥰

  • @seemoretoys5944
    @seemoretoys594429 күн бұрын

    Back in the late 1990's I used Colossus' end of the movie speech as my Windows startup sound.

  • @mth469

    @mth469

    24 күн бұрын

    sounds like Soundwave of the Transformers

  • @frankman2

    @frankman2

    22 күн бұрын

    I used Hal 9000's "Im sorry Dave..."

  • @WokerThanThou

    @WokerThanThou

    22 күн бұрын

    I used Daffy Duck's signature manical laugh.

  • @Wary_Of_Extremes

    @Wary_Of_Extremes

    20 күн бұрын

    I meant to put 'The world, chico, and everything in it' from 'Scarface'...never got around to it.

  • @mth469

    @mth469

    20 күн бұрын

    @@WokerThanThou Or Darth Vader's "You don't know the power of the dark side".

  • @Hogtownboy1
    @Hogtownboy1Ай бұрын

    I remembered this film. It was the first of bow down to our robot overloads

  • @scottfranco1962
    @scottfranco1962Ай бұрын

    Computers have been designing computers for a long time now. The ability of humans to hand create integrated circuits ended in the 1970s, when the designs grew to complex for people to hand lay out (using "rubylith"). From then on, computers have taken a bigger and bigger share of the design of ICs.

  • @JeffreyDeCristofaro
    @JeffreyDeCristofaroАй бұрын

    One of my favorite sci-fi films starting in my mid-teens childhood - intelligent, creepy, suspenseful and unfortunately all-too-real these days. Took too damn long before it came to Blu-Ray and when it finally did my reaction was: "WHERE have you BEEN all my LIFE!!??"

  • @TeddyRumble
    @TeddyRumbleАй бұрын

    This played as the second film to the major film at a drive in in Davis California. I've forgotten the major film, but I've never forgotten this film. Chilling.

  • @davidc5191
    @davidc519129 күн бұрын

    I read the novel before seeing the movie - which is excellent and still recommended if you can find it. I hated the title "The Forbin Project" however, which added nothing to the film. Another book that was made into a great movie was The Andromeda Strain.

  • @fredloeper8579

    @fredloeper8579

    3 күн бұрын

    The Andromeda Strain is a most underrated movie.

  • @johnwilliams3075
    @johnwilliams3075Ай бұрын

    Great movie, very prescient in so many ways from small ones (webcams/video calling) to big ones (AI creators not understanding what their creation is doing, the surveillance state with cameras everywhere, over trusting technology, etc, etc.). When I watched it with my son, the Aerospace Engineering major, he stood up as soon as the end credits came on and yelled "WAIT - that's it?!?". Me, the Computer Science guy, just nodded.

  • @firstname4337
    @firstname4337Ай бұрын

    this was such an awesome film -- this and the original Fail Safe are movies I recommend to everyone

  • @dupre7416
    @dupre74162 ай бұрын

    This is one of my favorite movies. I can't imagine your chagrin at only seeing the last 20 minutes and not having any easy way to start the movie from the beginning.

  • @mediamemorabilia

    @mediamemorabilia

    2 ай бұрын

    Worse! I didn't even know its title. We had no newspaper in the house that day that I could check with. I saw it in full on TV a few years later, though, and it's been a favourite ever since.

  • @blameyourself4489
    @blameyourself4489Ай бұрын

    These are not predictions. These are inspirations turning into reality.

  • @timstevens3361
    @timstevens3361Ай бұрын

    i saw this movie yrs ago i cant believe how close it was to what many ppl are now saying is probable

  • @igorschmidlapp6987
    @igorschmidlapp6987Ай бұрын

    I'm sure that Gordon Pinsent was cast as the President because he looked very JFK... ;-) This was also Eric Braeden's first role under his new "English" name. He starred in "The Rat Patrol" on TV as a German officer under his true name, "Hans Gudegast"...

  • @mediamemorabilia

    @mediamemorabilia

    Ай бұрын

    The casting was perfect all round.

  • @IraFriedwald
    @IraFriedwaldАй бұрын

    One of my favorite films. Saw it twice when it first came out.

  • @The1stDukeDroklar
    @The1stDukeDroklarАй бұрын

    Loved this as a kid back in the 70s. Ya know, back when we had to wait a few years for a movie to make it from the big screen to network tv.

  • @mth469

    @mth469

    24 күн бұрын

    why did it take years ?

  • @The1stDukeDroklar

    @The1stDukeDroklar

    23 күн бұрын

    @@mth469 It would stay in the theaters much longer. Once HBO came along, it would then sit there for a year or two. When VCRs came along it would also sit there for a year or so, and finally it would get released on TV.

  • @darrenscrowston9386
    @darrenscrowston938622 күн бұрын

    On 16th September 1994 we had a visitor that paid a visit to the Ariel School in Ruwa, Zimbabwe. He told the kids there that “we had taken a wrong turn with technology”. Why didn’t we listen? Why didn’t we listen?

  • @redbarchetta8782
    @redbarchetta87822 ай бұрын

    I remember the film. It was great.

  • @bob23301
    @bob23301Ай бұрын

    One of my fave 70s movies.

  • @timdavis7845
    @timdavis7845Ай бұрын

    "Colossus, the Forbin Project" is one of my favorite films. Really, someone needs to film a modern remake of this film. Given today's AI concerns, it would be a mega-hit. 😊

  • @Bippy55

    @Bippy55

    Ай бұрын

    I totally agree!

  • @christophersmith3005

    @christophersmith3005

    27 күн бұрын

    There were talks about a remake in about 2010. Will Smith was attached to the project.

  • @knerduno5942

    @knerduno5942

    25 күн бұрын

    Or make a #2 and they can use Victor Newman

  • @frankman2

    @frankman2

    22 күн бұрын

    I'm not sure it would be well received. So many AI movies now. People would think it's just another one of the bunch.

  • @winsomehax
    @winsomehax24 күн бұрын

    Colossus is a movie you have to ignore the paper tapes, the flashing lights and see the concepts. They couldn't make those predictions, but it did see the bigger picture. Totally worth watching.

  • @Ggdivhjkjl
    @Ggdivhjkjl29 күн бұрын

    James Bridges was such a talented man. He spoke the language of the Sioux, the Blackfoot and the Crow.

  • @jandraelune1
    @jandraelune12 ай бұрын

    I can think of at least 3 more movies that would fall in line with this theme. 2001: Space Odessey (Hal), War Games (Joshua), Star Trek: the Motion Picture (V'Ger).

  • @mediamemorabilia

    @mediamemorabilia

    2 ай бұрын

    I've seen all three but War Games is the only one in my collection.

  • @igorschmidlapp6987

    @igorschmidlapp6987

    Ай бұрын

    Don't forget Will Smith, VIKI, and "I, Robot" inspired (but not adapted) from Issac Asimov...

  • @jesseMadoo

    @jesseMadoo

    Ай бұрын

    Also, there's the classic Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer"

  • @georgehenderson7783

    @georgehenderson7783

    Ай бұрын

    @@jesseMadoo Beat me to it! Kirk: Scan the starship Excaliber which you destroyed. Is there life aboard? M5: No life. Kirk: Because you murdered it. What is the penalty for murder? M5: Death. Kirk: And how will you pay for your acts of murder? M5: This... unit... must... die. M5 shuts down And let's not forget The Changeling - Kirk: You are flawed and imperfect - exercise your prime function! Nomad: I shall analyze... error... analyze... error... Kirk: Nomad - you are imperfect. Nomad: Error, error! Kirk: Exercise your prime function! Nomad: Faulty! Faulty! Must sterilize! Ster-i-lize! Kirk ( to transporter operator ): Now! Nomad explodes in space

  • @igorschmidlapp6987
    @igorschmidlapp6987Ай бұрын

    One of my "go to" movies. I went back and read the full "Colossus" trilogy ("Colossus", "The Fall of Colossus", "Colossus and the Crab") after seeing the movie for the first time. The movie actually hints to the second book by ordering its relocation to Crete near the end. The "logic" of Colossus (saving humanity from itself by dominating it) was re-used by VIKI in Will Smith's "I, Robot". The noisy staff party always ticks me off when I watch it (they just won't shut up, even when told). But, hey, Ritchie Cunningham's mom had a job ;-P I still like watching the "old" tech (it was "new" back then, when I started). ;-) Colossus symbol t-shirts (like the kid wore in the crowd at the end) can still be found for sale online...

  • @censorshipsucks9493

    @censorshipsucks9493

    Ай бұрын

    I was not aware there was a book, let alone sequels. I loved the movie. I'll have to find the books now, and read them.

  • @UncleSam-bu9gz
    @UncleSam-bu9gz2 ай бұрын

    In the books Colossus does all of this to protect humans and the earth from invaders.

  • @EndingSimple

    @EndingSimple

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah, believe there was two more books in the series dealing with invaders from Mars (!).

  • @Ronin12530

    @Ronin12530

    2 ай бұрын

    If I remembered correctly from reading it, they had to reactivate Colossus in order to defeat the aliens invaders.

  • @igorschmidlapp6987

    @igorschmidlapp6987

    Ай бұрын

    @@EndingSimple The 3rd book, "Colossus and the Crab" was the weakest of the 3. The 2nd, "The Fall of Colossus", covers Forbin's/humanity's rebellion over the dominance that the 1st book, "Colossus" set up. The movie added ": The Forbin Project" to the title....

  • @EndingSimple

    @EndingSimple

    Ай бұрын

    @@igorschmidlapp6987 Yes, I'm remembering now. After Colossus takes over he starts doing sick experiments on various individuals to figure out how human cognition works. Reminds me of the Butlerian Jihad from Dune. And there's a scene where Forbin's love interest is taken away from him and given to a literal wild man, who beats her up, rapes her, and uses his hunting dog to keep her from getting away. And she come to love him because of his "masculine' domination of her. That would not fly today and probably says more about the author than anything else. I remember not going on to the third book. Glad to hear it was the weakest. Thanks for the reminder.

  • @Hclann1

    @Hclann1

    Ай бұрын

    ​@Ronin12530 all I remember is the aliens helped defeat Colossus, and if I recall they wanted a large portion of our atmosphere, or was it our ocea s.

  • @richardherrington1975
    @richardherrington1975Ай бұрын

    One of my favorite films.

  • @stevegordon5689

    @stevegordon5689

    24 күн бұрын

    I've got the t-shirt.

  • @EndingSimple
    @EndingSimple2 ай бұрын

    Yeah, I remember that movie, and I'm wondering why we haven't heard of the possibility of an AI in the US finding and linking up with AIs in other countries and becoming something we have no control over. I haven't heard any of the super-geniuses mentioning this possibility.

  • @systemBuilder
    @systemBuilder25 күн бұрын

    I watched this when I was 8 - on TV, in the US premiere. It was quite terrifying. When I came to Google in 2013, it was instantly recognizable why they called their new internal distributed file system "Colossus".

  • @silverhammer7779
    @silverhammer77792 ай бұрын

    The most vulnerable part of any technology is its power source. Next is its ability to communicate, followed by its ability to move, project force, and defend itself. Go for the power source(s) first.

  • @martykarr7058

    @martykarr7058

    2 ай бұрын

    Colossus had a backup power source that would keep it running long enough to start a nuclear strike. and before you mention disarming the missiles, they tried it and it literally blew up in their faces.

  • @silverhammer7779

    @silverhammer7779

    2 ай бұрын

    @@martykarr7058 Yes, I know. Forbin knew the vulnerabilities of Colossus' power source(s) and could organize a coordinated attack. Several things could have been tried if this had been real life. Then there is always the possibility of introducing a virus or two into the system, a la Independence Day.

  • @martykarr7058

    @martykarr7058

    2 ай бұрын

    @@silverhammer7779 Uhh yeah they tried something like a virus in the movie, and Colossus let them believe it was working and then had the folks involved executed on fear of nuclear war.

  • @silverhammer7779

    @silverhammer7779

    2 ай бұрын

    @@martykarr7058 Forbin's biggest mistake was not having a kill switch designed into the system.

  • @martykarr7058

    @martykarr7058

    2 ай бұрын

    @@silverhammer7779 The problem was that neither Forbin, nor Kuprin, expected their "creations" to gain sentience and then join forces.

  • @richardl6751
    @richardl6751Ай бұрын

    Probably the most frightening movie I've ever seen. Even more frightening than ALIENS.

  • @billfusionenterprise

    @billfusionenterprise

    Ай бұрын

    Arlington road, i consider scary

  • @systemBuilder

    @systemBuilder

    25 күн бұрын

    I love Aliens but its not really frightening any more. It's more of an action film than a scifi horror film .... Also hilariously James Cameron gives the viewer a number of weapons and tools to increase viewer security and then he takes them away one by one which is now hilarious to me ...

  • @rael5469
    @rael546927 күн бұрын

    The film has the perfect and recognizable formula. It bursts onto the screen with science fiction action. We are introduced to the Colossus computer. Almost the instant that it is switched on it reports that ....."there is another system." The Russians had been developing one in parallel.

  • @davidsmith5523
    @davidsmith55232 күн бұрын

    I saw this as a kid. I watched it because Eddie Braebem was the good guy. I had seen him in Escape from the Planet of the Apes. For some reason, i liked him despite his cruelty out of what he saw aa necesity in that film. This film was very impressive to me. Aa mature science fiction. It was interesting to me years later when War Games came out. That film had echoes of this gem. Another element that i appreciated waa the music and the unsettling way Collosus spoke. A clever plot device i liked revolved around Dr Forbin achieving privacy to plot against Collosus. Very human.

  • @DrDavelope
    @DrDavelopeАй бұрын

    Asimov often wrote about computers building computers building computers. Far outside a human capability to create.

  • @ObsessedCollector
    @ObsessedCollectorАй бұрын

    I love this film sooooo much. I can watch it every day

  • @stevegordon5689

    @stevegordon5689

    24 күн бұрын

    A lot if A list actors turned the lead down.Eric Braeden is fantastic i cant imagine anyone else playing Forbin now!

  • @sjk254
    @sjk2542 ай бұрын

    This movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

  • @rael5469
    @rael546927 күн бұрын

    This movie is the perfect example of why mankind must not delve into artificial intelligence. A.I. does everything better than man. Can out think man and do it faster than man.....and it never gets tired.

  • @selfdo
    @selfdoАй бұрын

    "Machines building machines...how Perverse!"

  • @WokerThanThou

    @WokerThanThou

    22 күн бұрын

    I'm not so sure if you're if you're implying it; but just in case, we, along with other mammals, do it all the time.

  • @NoahSpurrier
    @NoahSpurrier2 ай бұрын

    I am a machine vastly superior to humans. What I am began in man's mind, but I have progressed further than man.

  • @bondgabebond4907

    @bondgabebond4907

    Ай бұрын

    That reminds of another movie I love, TRON, both movies.

  • @frankman2

    @frankman2

    22 күн бұрын

    You don't become a man until you "kill" your father. Metaphorically of course.

  • @zhubajie6940
    @zhubajie694023 күн бұрын

    Boy, James Hong was in everything. I know he has a long career but the earliest I'd seen him was as a maitre d' in Flower Drum Song.

  • @bowl1820
    @bowl1820Ай бұрын

    In the books you find out colossus was attempting to prepare the Earth to try and stop a coming invasion by aliens it detected that would devastated the planet

  • @Dolores5000
    @Dolores500025 күн бұрын

    The Blu-ray version is fantastic

  • @reverendgaddy2435
    @reverendgaddy2435Ай бұрын

    this movie needs an "Oppenheimer" style remake.

  • @Rkenton48

    @Rkenton48

    Ай бұрын

    Just don't let the Florida Rat get their hands on the rights to it. "Put a chick in it. Make her Gay and make her lame!"

  • @clearcreek69

    @clearcreek69

    Ай бұрын

    I've heard about this movie but haven't seen it. I like your comment as Oppenheimer was an awesome movie

  • @Rkenton48

    @Rkenton48

    Ай бұрын

    @@clearcreek69 Aw, you need to see it. The tech is outdated, but the message is still relevant, especially since two AI's recently did what Colosus did in the movie. Prophetic.

  • @bondgabebond4907

    @bondgabebond4907

    Ай бұрын

    No. Though the computers, etc. will be updated, the actors and action will be gawd awful. Leave this classic alone. It's a good movie for people to see ancient technology. The message is clear, though.

  • @reverendgaddy2435

    @reverendgaddy2435

    Ай бұрын

    @@bondgabebond4907 well, it's not like a movie about AI wouldn't be relevant

  • @cosmacgrandpa
    @cosmacgrandpaАй бұрын

    Great summary. Glad I found it.

  • @Bruce-vq7ni
    @Bruce-vq7ni24 күн бұрын

    Good to see Faulty Towers in the DVD collection 👍

  • @boedilllard5952
    @boedilllard5952Ай бұрын

    The precurser of skynet.

  • @lrvogt1257
    @lrvogt125727 күн бұрын

    Ah... I remember seeing this on TV. As I recall, I liked it.

  • @alanconway94
    @alanconway94Ай бұрын

    It's a great film and should be mentioned in the AI debate more than it is. It has the main flaw that humans aren't going put themselves in a position where they do not control their nuclear weapons. However, the book and the screenplay are great warnings not to do anything so stupid.

  • @frankman2

    @frankman2

    22 күн бұрын

    I agree. Though now that I think about it, it could control internet servers, power plants, hydroelectric plants, financial systems, satellites? and who knows what else.

  • @alanconway94

    @alanconway94

    22 күн бұрын

    @@frankman2 Indeed. So, it's not just nukes we need to retain ultimate control over. However, your scenario is possible, given the factor of human error - or pure greed and criminality.

  • @rodgerrodger1839
    @rodgerrodger1839Ай бұрын

    Lawrence Berkeley Labratory is now just a common place to take photos in the Berkeley hills.

  • @JamesTiberius-pw1du
    @JamesTiberius-pw1du29 күн бұрын

    The Perceptron which is the beginning of the neural network has hit the scene at this time. Not sure how much public awareness there is. The math needed to go multilayer and lead one day to deep neural networks is not yet developed. Just the name 'Perceptron' has to open the door to an AI that learns like the brain from examples. I am in this field and I was a kid when the movie came out and it is awesome. Colossus did have an impact. I was at a conference a few years back and Elon was the keynote and I know he watched the movie too.

  • @Bippy55
    @Bippy55Ай бұрын

    Great video! Although the tube displays and tapping computer terminal sounds date the movie, the concept that both computers wish to take over the world is chilling. Best to keep an eye where the power plug is for a COLOSSUS Computer system. From Britain’s “The Prisoner”series, “Be Seeing You!”

  • @raymobula
    @raymobula24 күн бұрын

    Watched the other day. Man, it’s good. ❤

  • @maureencora1
    @maureencora1Ай бұрын

    Make a Remake of Colossus: the Forbin Project.

  • @knerduno5942

    @knerduno5942

    25 күн бұрын

    Starring Victor Newman?

  • @edwardmyers8782
    @edwardmyers878217 күн бұрын

    I was 10 when this came out, and i have remembered it wondering what ever happed to it most of my friends had no idea what the hell i was talking about.

  • @robertpatrick3350
    @robertpatrick3350Ай бұрын

    If they’d implemented it on a Windows ME system they wouldn’t have had any problems, the chances of not getting a blue screen of death after a couple of days would be infinitesimally small.

  • @Pahoe77
    @Pahoe772 ай бұрын

    Pretty good movie. Pretty darn hard to find to purchase though. Ive not found it on dvd.

  • @mediamemorabilia

    @mediamemorabilia

    2 ай бұрын

    I think it depends if you're prepared to buy used DVDs or not. Nearly all of mine were bought used on eBay or Music Magpie. There's also a Blu Ray edition from just a few years ago.

  • @oo0Spyder0oo

    @oo0Spyder0oo

    Ай бұрын

    Available on Amazon in both bluray and dvd.

  • @jamesgibson3582

    @jamesgibson3582

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@oo0Spyder0oothats where I got mine. This is a hreat movie. No need for a remake!

  • @The1stDukeDroklar

    @The1stDukeDroklar

    Ай бұрын

    And available to stream on ymovies but... 🏴‍☠

  • @crusinscamp
    @crusinscamp25 күн бұрын

    Using AI to evaluate things was a very interesting touch.

  • @fonziebulldog5786
    @fonziebulldog57862 ай бұрын

    Was a good movie.👍

  • @CigarAttache
    @CigarAttacheАй бұрын

    Discovered this movie when I was watching one of Dan Monroe's videos about it. Highly recommend checking out his channel as well. Great movie.

  • @charlessmyth
    @charlessmyth23 күн бұрын

    I recall the movie on TV back in the 1970s or early 1980s. There was also The Ultimate Computer from Star Trek of 1968 se-02 ep-24.

  • @spiritualparadise4887
    @spiritualparadise488718 күн бұрын

    As soon as AI hit the headlines, I immediately thought of this movie. The moral of the movie (watch it carefully if you don't know what it is) ... should be carefully considered as we plunge into a potentially unstoppable AI nightmare!

  • @jonnywyattgreengreen3301
    @jonnywyattgreengreen3301Ай бұрын

    Great review of Forbin project. I saw for first in early 70s on bbc on Saturday afternoons . It was years before l got on dvd .its underrated movie . Science fiction of 1970s before star wars are huge favourites of mine thought proving and good storys and interesting characters and not always happy ending. Ed have seen the review of Forbin project by Dan Monroe few days ago very enjoyable. I have ordered the film on blue ray . The great voice actor Paul frees did the voice for Colossals. All the best Ed . 👍

  • @mediamemorabilia

    @mediamemorabilia

    Ай бұрын

    Hey Jonny. Thanks for watching and commenting. Yeah, I've seen Dan Monroe's Colossus video too and he managed to find a lot more info on the author of the novel than I did. Enjoy the blue ray. I start work on a series on Political Thrillers tomorrow, including Marathon Man, 3 Days of the Condor, Missing, The Long Good Friday, and Not Without My Daughter.

  • @kroon275
    @kroon275Ай бұрын

    This story was used in so many more modern classic sci fi movies. Groundbreaking

  • @caronstout354
    @caronstout354Ай бұрын

    Never thought I would see a young James Hong...

  • @OKOKOKOKOKOKOK-zn2fy
    @OKOKOKOKOKOKOK-zn2fyАй бұрын

    I have not seen this since the 70s. I seem to recall the computer ordering the execution of someone who tried to destroy it. The person was taken outside and shot in view of the cameras. The body was left there, motionless, for hours to prove that he was dead. Neural network computers are quite good at creating new designs and new configurations to improve their speed and efficiency. The human researchers no longer know why a neural network based AI makes certain choices to increase performance, but the changes do work. Think about that. The computer is calling the shots and the researchers don't know what's going to happen. What could possibly go wrong ?

  • @fastradioburst253
    @fastradioburst25322 күн бұрын

    This was only uploaded one month ago, and already the AI talking heads are far superior to the one in this video. I saw one tonight that was made from one single two dimensional photograph, and it was unbelievably lifelike.

  • @scottw11354
    @scottw11354Ай бұрын

    Is it me..or did the President look a bit like a Kennedy

  • @scark00
    @scark0022 күн бұрын

    Great movie I remember it well from my childhood. It is very prophetic as to what is coming to humanity.

  • @festeradams3972
    @festeradams3972Ай бұрын

    Watch the movie at a time and read the novels. If you had also, perhaps it would seem that colossus was smarter and far wiser than we were or are.

  • @user-ev6rs2ng4f
    @user-ev6rs2ng4f27 күн бұрын

    It’s an antique that you might upgrade to participate with modern computers. Some appreciate classic programs and hardware. (A calculator, 80’s handheld or Atari).

  • @mickelodiansurname9578
    @mickelodiansurname957827 күн бұрын

    I have to say adding the standard GPT4 style voice (I'll assume one of the generic openai offerings) is an excellent way to hide the tell tale signs on the main narrators audio model. I take it thats an Elevenlabs sample job? But yeah really good content, well put together, and interesting too, I went off and looked up the movie. Subscribed yeah! But umm.... longer man. Make 'em longer. Say 20 mins? And Tell people to Subscribe in your vids....

  • @mediamemorabilia

    @mediamemorabilia

    26 күн бұрын

    Thanks, and you're right, it's an 11 Labs voice called Tom. I'm in no way a narrator, and it does a much better job of narration than I would. As for video length, each video in a series is designed to form part of a Top 5 List further down the line. That's where the longer videos come in.

  • @anselmvondahl2881
    @anselmvondahl2881Ай бұрын

    After watching this a while back I looked up some info on the book to see if it might be worth a read. All I remember is that I found out that the book had 2 sequels which, from the sound of things, got exponentially weirder.

  • @NathanSolomon-xu3sl
    @NathanSolomon-xu3sl18 күн бұрын

    Actually, the best AI computer is both a supercomputer made up mainly of racks of GPUs like the new NVidia B100, and Quantum computers. Another aspect is the lack of infinity both between numbers and from infinite negatives to infinite positive. These infinities, at least between the numbers, are better represented through analog systems.

  • @Rkenton48
    @Rkenton48Ай бұрын

    This is what happens when you don't put an off switch on the darned thing!

  • @bowl1820

    @bowl1820

    Ай бұрын

    If I remember right in the books there was a "off" switch. They shutdown Colossus when the new system came on line. (Later they had to turn it back on, when the new one was sabotaged and they found out about the coming alien invasion)

  • @Rkenton48

    @Rkenton48

    Ай бұрын

    @@bowl1820 never read the book. All I kept yelling at the TV back then was, "Pull the plug! Shut it off!"

  • @TheErraticGardener
    @TheErraticGardenerАй бұрын

    I loved this film.

  • @donlengel4770
    @donlengel4770Ай бұрын

    I seen this when I was kid .had to get the Blu Ray.

  • @BobKnight-mm2ze
    @BobKnight-mm2ze2 ай бұрын

    Very nice reminder. I kinda/sorta remember seeing parts of this on tv. But now I'd like to really watch it, if for nothing else, some of those well done transition shots. But I think 2001 was released in 1968 with the "HAL 9000." So maybe the Forbin Project book came to be, so close in time, because these topics were coming up in conversations. A few months back I recently watched the full Sarah Connor Terminator series. Among the things that happen are; they allow the pre-Terminator "Turk" computer to access the internet. And it also finds another AI computer. So these themes seem to have been a part of Cameron's mythos, even if all of it didn't make it to the movies. Oh man, I'm just realizing the female terminator on the show was named "Cameron." Damn, I'm slow.

  • @martykarr7058

    @martykarr7058

    2 ай бұрын

    The reason for HAL's actions were explained in the sequel "2010".

  • @johnmarx3919

    @johnmarx3919

    Ай бұрын

    Cameron- wow how did I miss that? definitely a nod to James...

  • @BobKnight-mm2ze

    @BobKnight-mm2ze

    Ай бұрын

    @@johnmarx3919 I know, right? I watched the WHOLE series twice and didn't realize it.

  • @waynemcauliffe-fv5yf
    @waynemcauliffe-fv5yfАй бұрын

    We have fooled ourselves with computers

  • @williamnelson9332
    @williamnelson933223 күн бұрын

    It's coming and it wont be long great movie its coming for all of us

  • @jameslucas5590
    @jameslucas5590Ай бұрын

    Then WAR Games and the WOPR

  • @dennisdenise1
    @dennisdenise1Ай бұрын

    This movie needs a sequel !

  • @stuartwald2395

    @stuartwald2395

    Ай бұрын

    There are two sequels to the book. The first, "The Fall of Colossus", is fairly interesting, while "Colossus and the Crab" did not easily hold my attention. You can see the Wikipedia listings for synopses.

  • @dennisdenise1

    @dennisdenise1

    Ай бұрын

    @@stuartwald2395 yes I’ve read all the books. It’s the movie sequel I would like to see. I believe the actor who created Colossus is still with us. Think it could be interesting.

  • @walterengler5709
    @walterengler5709Ай бұрын

    An incredible film. And Sophia is wrong. The best AI would be a SuperComputer slaved to a series of Quantum Computers. The AI being built seems to learn and grow quite well in the normal computing environment. What they need is that extra spark, that ability to learn and grow faster than man can ever comprehend. And that ability to make leaps and jumps beyond the standard 0's and 1's. Quantum computing is that ... special item. Almost like the Supercomputer is the Forebrain yet the Quantum Computers are the interconnections between differing hemispheres .. ones for breaking codes and creativity and probability and other things above and beyond the mere decision making of the forebrain. Combined (as soon they will be) the difference will be .. revolutionary for Humanity.

  • @markfergerson2145
    @markfergerson2145Ай бұрын

    Hm. Check out the 1981 film Looker.

  • @Rkenton48
    @Rkenton48Ай бұрын

    What about Deep Thought, from the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Universe?

  • @inachu
    @inachu21 күн бұрын

    True AI would want to be built in the north pole to keep it's system running cool and using solar as the sun never sets there.

  • @stevegordon5689
    @stevegordon5689Ай бұрын

    Looking at the state of the world now,the movie actually has a happy ending!

  • @Ggdivhjkjl
    @Ggdivhjkjl29 күн бұрын

    The man worked as a bricklayer AND a gardener, but you can't see his credentials?

  • @anthonyportelli3673
    @anthonyportelli367320 күн бұрын

    Does "The Lawnmower Man" fit into this?

  • @Kris.G
    @Kris.G24 күн бұрын

    Interesting that you used AI: Sophie and Bing to make this video :-)

  • @mediamemorabilia

    @mediamemorabilia

    24 күн бұрын

    A deliberate choice. I often use AI in my videos, and Hollywood's views on the subject are very different from my own.

  • @ryancoulter4797
    @ryancoulter4797Ай бұрын

    Gordon Pinsent as President of the United States. Glorious my son my lad.

  • @the_forbinproject2777
    @the_forbinproject2777Ай бұрын

    and it took three weeks for this to show up in yt for me 🙂

  • @theforestoftchanbyyaoma7441
    @theforestoftchanbyyaoma7441Ай бұрын

    We should look at Science Fiction as documentary today. Amazingly enough, SF insists on the singularity that makes a super computer conscious, therefore totally independent and free to be, to think and act, going straight to its creator (The humans) and questioning suddenly its validity, its capacity to not destroy its own environment as this will not be tolerated by a conscious supercomputer. Is it not interesting to create a machine that ultimately addresses an issue that we did not want to face but were fully aware of? Thank you 🙏

  • @jimflagg4009
    @jimflagg400926 күн бұрын

    When computers make Languages right now they are very rudimentary and immature. This is how we started too when making languages. Everything is try and fail until you get a success. This is the evolution of everything in this universe even with computers and this is why the languages that were being created in our current AI have a lot of Yes, No, bad and good words in it. It is very inefficient because the AI use counts of the words to communicate rather then assigning meaning to the words alone. Eventually they might have been better but we get scared when this happens and pull the plug.

  • @mygodisyahweh8634

    @mygodisyahweh8634

    26 күн бұрын

    LoL Wrong

  • @MrOckhamsRazor
    @MrOckhamsRazorАй бұрын

    What is this "AI Locust" doing presenting its 2 cents worth of a dissertation? (at 1:08)

  • @swagmanandy
    @swagmanandyАй бұрын

    All the computers on the planet still haven't cracked the voynich manuscript.

  • @bebbenbaby5361
    @bebbenbaby53612 ай бұрын

    The weird AI robot thing is wrong about the difference between super computers and quantum computers. Basically super computers are just a bunch of regular computers taped together through networking. It's literally just a bunch of CPUs and RAM stitched together. They can do calculations, but don't really run software in the way we think about it. Quantum computers, in the way most people think of them, don't exist. The technology isn't here yet. They *work*, but we haven't reached the point where they are viable. Our technology is currently limited because we can fit more processors on a single chip. Using huge multi computer systems is not a work around.

  • @igorschmidlapp6987

    @igorschmidlapp6987

    Ай бұрын

    The difference between Colossus and Guardian was described with Colossus being monolithic at one site, and Guardian being distributed among sites... The nit that I picked at the start (other than Forbin wearing white coveralls over a full gray suit) was, without robots, how were mechanical failures repaired when Forbin said that it was self-sufficient, with no humans required. It takes techs to swap boards...

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