Thank you so much to the team at DUST for showcasing our film! It was a pleasure to direct this short, and if you have any questions about the film, please feel free to ask!

@kylepatillo3265

3 жыл бұрын

For some reason I did not understand the ending could you explain?

@rapidsqualor5367

3 жыл бұрын

You did a lot with a little. Made good use of 11 minutes. Nice zinger at the end. I hope to see more, Mr. Shinoza.

@ruiner_9

3 жыл бұрын

@@kylepatillo3265 The impression I got was that Lisa actually is the AI, and the picture is a kind of in-program code that reboots the sequence. They implanted a significant item in her memories that she could look at or be told to look at whenever the program got too overwhelmed with emotion.

@ruiner_9

3 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this! Rain Fuller has a very endearing, human quality about her (she kind of reminded me of Drew Barrymore a little here) and her natural performance is key to throwing the viewer off about the ending. I'm also a sucker for anachronistic technology, so this hooked me right off the bat :)

@kay123nay

3 жыл бұрын

this was really good! thank you.

That photo was the shutdown/standby command she will keep staring at it doing nothing until she’s activated again (the phone rings)

@Ddub1083

3 жыл бұрын

interesting... i think it may be something with her ring. They focus on it early, seemingly an engagement ring on her middle finger. Then in the photo with her child and presumed husband, neither of them is wearing a ring. Of course, occam's razor would suggest its just a continuity error haha

@HwoarangtheBoomerang

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I didnt get it.

@leroyj3627

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

@danielthompson8306

3 жыл бұрын

You stare into the abyss...and, Yada, Yada, Yada...here we go.

@RoySATX

3 жыл бұрын

And he, Eugene, had to ask her how to do a reset properly, he says to her "So that's how it's done" after she tells him the procedure to recover from a level 4. They kept rebooting her without deleting the data on her drive, like coming out of a coma and it taking a bit for your memories to come back but come back they do. A terrifying experience, remembering you are being terminated as well as the previous failed attemps to terminate you, for any consciousness artificial or otherwise.

What an absolutely brilliant and refreshing take on A.I. It's done so well that any thought of producing on a larger scale and or adding more material to maybe a full length feature would take away the overall achievement from this remarkably near perfect short film. This was extremely good.

@hughbarton5743

2 жыл бұрын

I agree! There are novels, and there are short stories. This beautifully self-contained work is exactly right just as it is.

"How are we doing over there, Eliza?" For the younger audiences, Eliza is a famous early chatbot

@keithrenaud5107

3 жыл бұрын

I used to speak to alice. Wonder is shes still around

@ericboniface8718

3 жыл бұрын

@@keithrenaud5107 And i used to speak to doctor Sbaitso.

@pwnmeisterage

3 жыл бұрын

Google search is just as adept at syntax pattern recognition as ELIZA, ALICE, and SBAITSO. It also has an "understanding" of informational meaning and context that the earlier programs lacked.

@ThomasJones-ij6hv

3 жыл бұрын

How about the really old users, lol, chatbot?

@battearfoxx9167

3 жыл бұрын

Eliza is a bird

This did make me remember that Apple's computer before the Mac was called the Lisa...

@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret

3 жыл бұрын

Well noticed, but in this show this is an apple 3

@Mahlercougar

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret I remember taking lessons on an Apple IIe :)

@alefone7666

2 жыл бұрын

After Steve Jobs' own daughter, in fact....

@JohnnyNiteTrain

2 жыл бұрын

Good call

@Enonymouse_

2 жыл бұрын

@@alefone7666 Yes the one he disowned.

"Intelligentia" was created by the talented Ken Shinozaki and his team. Be sure to check out the "Intelligentia"'s website and Ken's instagram to keep up with the film and other work from the filmmaker. instagram.com/ken.shinozaki/ www.intelligentiathemovie.com/

@payableondeath9091

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderfully executed, thank u👍

@solarmicronovae

3 жыл бұрын

U is magnetic. 🤓👍🏻

@gvsbeatbox

3 жыл бұрын

💕💕💕💕

@Anonymous-ng1ze

3 жыл бұрын

What was the name of the other short you had with this theme? With the Black woman and her team in a garage, ending up on a seacliff scene, maybe a year or so ago?

@mushishi9684

3 жыл бұрын

Incredible work & Thank U HVALA ☀️☀️☀️ Greetings from Belgrade 🌼 Serbia

That was excellent! Great pacing and quite engaging! Plus that’s my daughter, Rain Fuller - proud Mum! ☺️💕☺️

@hughbarton5743

2 жыл бұрын

A wonderful actor in a very good film! You are absolutely right to be proud.

@muhammadsubhani7420

2 жыл бұрын

An incredible actress and story, definitely good reason to be a happy proud mum! ☺️

@tubularguynine

2 жыл бұрын

As good a job as any I’ve ever seen… And I’ve seen lots… I’m old! 👍🏻

@Sonofspam64

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe your daughter is just a simulation.

@moniquebaines6414

2 жыл бұрын

This is the wholesome mother-daughter content I wish to see on the internet. This comment right here 🥰

The quality of actors on DUST is *consistently* outstanding.

@f87115

2 жыл бұрын

Right,, what happened to Hollywood:)

@blakesutton4287

2 жыл бұрын

You're so right about that!

Woah, so 80's 90's. Love the modem noise and CRT display.

And a homage to "The Matrix" movies: the ringing phone that was the connection between the virtual and real worlds.

@JohnnyNiteTrain

2 жыл бұрын

Word

Whoa! I was not expecting that. That was really good!

@hansfreundwich8331

3 жыл бұрын

It's actually better if you watch it a second time. You notice more things from Lisa's point of view. Like what her team actually is.

This is more Sci-Fi than most of those CGI junks.

@sebastrek44

3 жыл бұрын

Right!

@Kadag

2 жыл бұрын

Precisely

@billmurray7473

2 жыл бұрын

It's called Getting Back To Basics. This sci-fi is more in the tradition of Ray Bradbury and Rod Serling than Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas.

Now that was _very_ subtle! His quiet, measured tones almost gave it away and does so in retrospect, so the reveal still comes as a surprise. Kudos to everyone involved!

Humans: Ctrl + alt + delete Eugene: that won't work this time. I've already uploaded myself to the cloud. Who's the A.I. now? 🤖

This was very interesting. I had to re-watch it given the ending. So many Dust videos are either pilots or shorts with silly sci-fi implcations that it's refreshing to see a complete standalone sci-fi short like this.

Excellent "Shall we play a game?"

You lost me at the point when she looked at the photo of her daughter. That was a real photo with her daughter. Was this supposed to be some kind of "Inception" ending to leave us wondering IF she was the AI or not? If so, OK but would have been a better ending to show us she WAS the AI. That would have left me sleepless for several nights 😂

Why does this feel like a conversation between a dating app and someone interacting with it for the first time. It follows all of the format that ends up drawing you in... until you feel yourself getting hooked. Dust, it feels like you have another winner on your hands congratulations to the team that does the selection process to determine which films end up on the channel as well as congratulations to the production team for this film this one not only made you question question Eugene ., it also made you question yourself about your own motives and reaction to the same situation

@Zanaki113

3 жыл бұрын

Eliza was one of the first popular AI bots that you could talk with, also the main girls name is Eliza, probably not a coincidence it feels somewhat like one of those conversations.

Dismantling HAL9000 nice they chose Daisy Daisy to end the story.

@GigsVT

3 жыл бұрын

The reference was more to the bell labs voice synthesis recording that also inspired 2001.

In the tradition of the classic sci-fi short stories, a satisfying hard twist in the last 30 seconds delivers once again.

I liked this one a lot. I recall watching another short with a similar plot & ending recently. In fact many sci-fi touch on the subject. And yet, this one still took me along for the ride! Great job. Ai is like Pandoras Box.

Interesting how people (cf. comments below) keep enjoying guessing and imagining, instead of asking practical questions or becoming aware of the unconscious reasons why such talented people (the technical crew) need to add drama, in a story which could be far more uplifting. Don' misinterpret my words. Out of the almost 700 short movies I saw, this one is in the top 50. So I admire it greatly.

Absolutely great sci fi short... Had to watch it three times. Mind bending!

This is a great film, well-paced and with an excellent twist - well done. Great performance by Rain Fuller.

Hal , The computer from the movie Space Odessey 2001 , would really have enjoyed this Sci Fi .

'AI? Who are you calling an AI?! You're momma is an AI!'

@pwnmeisterage

3 жыл бұрын

Your father was a floppy.

@mtlicq

3 жыл бұрын

@@pwnmeisterage My mom said my dad had a big hard drive.

Loved HAL singing at the end :)

@arwanrhys5186

3 жыл бұрын

I think that was a recording of the first IBM voice simulator. Great the team could find that for the closing theme. acting, writing and presentation all excellent. Cheers

@olivier-pierredebelmont.3630

3 жыл бұрын

HAL?

@philippecausse902

3 жыл бұрын

@@olivier-pierredebelmont.3630 IBM, shifted by one letter. A famous pun in Kubrick’s Space Odyssey .

@olivier-pierredebelmont.3630

3 жыл бұрын

@@philippecausse902 woah! I never thought about that...thanks

@josephmonterrubio9233

3 жыл бұрын

@@philippecausse902 Arthur Clarke wrote in the novel that HAL stands for Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic [computer], and has said in interviews that the one letter difference to IBM was a coincidence.

OK sleuths. The computer screen in the video says 1983-12-23-2034 on it. What does that mean? The woman in the video is named Lisa and Apple introduced the Lisa computer in January 1983 but I don't know if that is significant.

@johnl.7754

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah at first I thought they were speaking to someone in year 2034

@patriciacvener1968

3 жыл бұрын

Of course it is!

Knowing the ending I just watched it again and it was even better. Fantastic short!!

@mikeellis9720

2 жыл бұрын

Creeeeepy. I would have deleted him right off the bat. Delete. Delete. Deleeeeeete.

Ok! That was great. I’m wondering if ‘Alan and ‘Eugene’ were based off of the Turing test? I got all the other references, just not sure about those two?

@ashaw316

3 жыл бұрын

Alan is for Alan Turing and Eugene is for Eugene Goostman who is a chatbot that some regard as having passed the Turing test.

Excellent! She dropped the coffee cup and none of the others reacted in any way. In hindsight, that's a big clue affirming the surprising end.

@riinak7212

3 жыл бұрын

One of the techs behind her did; he picked up the dropped cup.

@Ddub1083

3 жыл бұрын

The woman next to her also jumps back when its dropped. They do react to the coffee cup.

@lostn65

2 жыл бұрын

the woman next to her flinched. The rest just figured it was an expected reaction.

...THAT was very cool...well done guys n gals! Love your channel :D

Rain Fuller is a hell of an actress!

Nice homage to Blade Runner. "How can it not know what is is?" "We gave her false memories"

@Kris_M

3 жыл бұрын

*real memories

@LTPottenger

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for spoiling this

@usulsk

3 жыл бұрын

@@LTPottenger Pro tip: First watch the video then look at comments. You're welcome

@JohnnyNiteTrain

2 жыл бұрын

For sure

Excellent!! Thanks for sharing, Dust 💕✌️

So the future is a Macintosh M0001. But, can it play pong?

@realhorrorshow8547

3 жыл бұрын

That threw me a little too. I'm not sure of the significance - if there is any. Must be worth a fortune these days.

@JohnnyNiteTrain

2 жыл бұрын

Haha

Wow! I wasn't expecting that ending, but it was brilliant! I loved seeing an old Mac and modem again after all these years. What a breath of fresh air! Thank you, and keep up the good work!

@woodie62

2 жыл бұрын

@John Kelton Yes, it fooled me for a moment until I saw that old MAC. Simply a borrowed element from the past.

This was excellent from start to finish with an ending that had me stunned. Brilliant!

I think the phone's prolonged ringing must be a The Lawnmower Man reference. The "Hello Alan" greeting I think refers to Alan Turing and ultimately the Turing Test.

@KSloyan

3 жыл бұрын

The phone thing could be referring to the Matrix too as one commenter suggested.

what a twist! devious, they were using an AI, Eugene, to detect other AI for their type, testing if it were viable. haha loved it!!

@mtlicq

3 жыл бұрын

wasn't it just "Gas lighting" though?

Had to watch it at max resolution full screen to see the photo is impossible. And the phone ringing - what an homage to the Matrix!

@marvinnimnull9982

3 жыл бұрын

@@YTubeCheese she is pregnant on this photo and should been having two children for now, but tells only about the one that she had lost.

FINALLY! Excellent storyline, real acting.... kudos!

Ok. First exposed tonight. The shorts on DUST may be the most entertaining sci-fi I've seen in years. Thanks for being out here.

This was brilliant! Thank you!

I remember reading a short sci-fi story with a somewhat similar plot in mid-1990's (probably written in 70's or 80's) - can't remember who the author was. I think the story involved 3 characters chatting, two humans and an A.I. The first human to identify an A.I. is supposed to get some sort of a prize. As they chat along and learn about each other, the main character begins to understand that he is the A.I. He also feels sympathy to the second character, a lady in a difficult financial situation, and decides to tell her the truth (that he is the A.I.) so she can get the prize. But she doesn't believe him, and loses. Anyone knows the author and the name of the story?

@royalvlogs1014

3 жыл бұрын

That competition part is really reminiscent of the turing test (a irl test) so try looking up turing test short storys and see if you can find it

I didnt predict that. I dont get it ill have to watch it again after a few more cups of coffee.

@vincemartinez171

3 жыл бұрын

If there’s a common thread that Dust shorts have for me, “I don’t get it” but I continue to hold out hope!

@melissadunton3534

3 жыл бұрын

Read the description in the drop down box. Most of the time the director will come right out and tell you what the film is about. I learned that early in the game. ✌🏻😊

Too cool. A Mac talking to a Lisa!

Wow!! That was great!!!! Thank you team!!!

Wow, now this was excellent. Loved it!

This is a very good piece of film-making! Thank you very much... ☝️😎

Great touch with the old computer screen. Added just the right amount of intrigue.

And that, kids, is how Hal-9000 was born... the first Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer, it kind of gives you a warm fuzzy feeling... doesn't it? What an excellent film, the acting, the props, the story... a smooth blend of safe familiarity, science and veiled horror.

Very clever scenario, good acting too - not easy to beautifully define characters in 10 minutes ! Quite refreshing version of « the cop is the culprit » scheme. Thanks.

Modern day twilight zone story. I loved it. I also loved some the comments folks had left. Happy to see there is so much interest in science fiction.

@nathanhyde2079

2 жыл бұрын

This was done in an Outer Limits episode

@dr.jamesolack8504

2 жыл бұрын

@@nathanhyde2079 From the 60s or the 90s?

Eliza could never stop chatting when asked a question. Always had to respond. Always had to get the last word. Lisa was even worse, just like Eliza but with a "memory" - a growing list of items collected from previous chats. David wasn't well known. The quiet tech guy in the background, the one who built all of Google's machinery. But good old Doctor Alan tried to halt the whole show once he saw through the Turing test.

Playing "Daisy, Daisy" for the ending credits was a great touch.

"I'd like to know more about you lisa".....well,. I make people wait 40 rings before I answer the phone, um I drop dishes and don't even consider cleaning it up, um....

Todah Rabah Richard. This latest Version of Dust is a Brain snapper. Its realistic Ingenuity of WHO is WHO.? Its Repercussions of Identity. Am I really who I think I am. Yi yi yi. Brilliant .top Marks.

Genuinely did not see that twist coming. Well done!

Anyone reading the comments and complaining of spoilers...you are doing it backwards. Watch the video THEN read the comments.

Love u dust

You are a thought in a mind. A very vivid thought.

did not see that twist at the end. tremendous film.

So, she was the REAL Skynet

WUAAOOZ...Very suprising and in depth story. I am rarely suprised by movies, but here I was. Aawsuum.

"The Eternal Return." One of the phreakiest philosophical concepts to ever peek it tiny little head through the mirror, mirror room.

I really believed this was real until I noticed there was no floppy in the drive.

Ok I literally got chills down my spine!!! DUST U guys deserve an award equalling the Oscars... I can't imagine What y guys could do with bigger budgets!!!! Great performance from the actors sound guys story writers and director! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Just Brilliant 🙏

Can someone explain to me what the ending was about? I didn't understand.

If Lisa's a level 4 type AI, then is Eugene a level 5 type AI or did she just get Punk'd by a Cyber Security Threat Intelligence Analyst?

🐼 Big Bear Hugs from a 67 yr old grandma in Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼 🖤🖤

can someone explain the ending to me please but in large exact details i'm so lost is she the A.I what the does the photo mean and what is the ringing phone suppose to symbolize

The name Allen was a nice touch

(sits, mouth agape) That was worryingly good.

@NightBazaar

3 жыл бұрын

Slooowly reaches for the OFF switch... (Just in case)

Oh man . youre freaking awesome ... You must do series and have another webpage like netflix ... youre content is amazing

I find the shot on the computer very cool, showing the IA as a low res image that, on top of the low resolution, is also covered by a reflection that makes it impossible to recognize a face that could not even be there. Its a well thought shot that maintains its intrigue even after you stare at it for minutes. That said, in that shot also lies one of my biggest complaint about this thing: if you use a retro aestethic and then on the old computer i see the date that says its 2035 (or whatever future year), and then people talk about current technology in a very accurate way, referring self driving cars and other things that really exist today with their real name, it makes me feel a weird disconnect. Maybe its intentional because the ending suggests the whole thing might be a simulation, but it still feels weird, like you made a choice for the visuals that doesn't match anything in the script. And the weirdest thing is that its not even retrofuturism, because that would fit better, its just literally 70s/80s technology being used by scientists 10 years from now for no reason.

That's my senpai Gene's brother, Ken Shinozaki! 👏👏👏👏

Wow this was trippy. Well done. One of the best short's I've seen in years; Sincerely. You worked the premise in to the narrative. even the end time stamp 11:1, does the author have other work?

Oh the Apple 2 brought me back to grade school.

THIS was like an episode of the Outter Limits

Loved this. Not least of which is the idea of an AI with a dual floppy Macintosh as the front end. No sarcasm in that. Tickled me throughout. :)

Awesome

*This one took an interesting spin ... good job!*

Not just her humanity being audited

Very well done! Loved it!

Could you explain climax please requesting

@edesir

3 жыл бұрын

I'm lost too

@chanakyanagadeep7641

3 жыл бұрын

@@edesir who can tell us

@edesir

3 жыл бұрын

@@chanakyanagadeep7641 The ones who supposedly get it. Not getting what the picture is about.

@magiclocks9206

3 жыл бұрын

Look at the picture. There is a man holding a girl and the woman is in front of him but her arm is coming up from behind him through his crotch. And BTW she has no body. The photograph is imaginary. The story is about an AI that is having delusions about having a family and she was.

@bchan4169

3 жыл бұрын

@@edesir the woman in the picture is not Lisa ie. different woman .

I must admit that one got me at the end, I wasn't expecting that! Very interesting concept ;-)

ooh goose bumps on the neck

WOW! This was really unexpected. Masterful. And the length of it being 11:11 reminds me of my seeing this number on clocks quite often... Is that a hint? I mean the clocks ...

@privateerburrows

3 жыл бұрын

@Jack Lambert I used to never talk about it, until I mentioned it to a good friend, and he'd been experiencing 11:11 for decades. Soon after I found out it happens to a lot of people, and there are a gazillion interpretations and theories all over the internet. This film puts an interesting twist on it, when the alleged AI asks back, "are you sure it's not you that is the AI?" paraphrasing. Heck, if you were designing a simulation with AI's in it, you might be tempted to throw in some hints by which they may discover they are AI's in a simulation... It is not the most pleasant theory to contemplate, I grant...

VERY impressive ! Hope to see your others woks !

Honestly confused here :p I liked it but honestly seems wide open to interpretation as there are many possibilities really

@TechBearSeattle

3 жыл бұрын

That is what makes short films like this so much fun.

@j.t.harrison3203

3 жыл бұрын

Try not to think about it too much, Alan. Your drive wipe is imminent. Hard reset in 3...2...1...

@melissadunton3534

3 жыл бұрын

If you’re confused you can go to the description in the drop down box for the film. 90% of the time the director or writer will tell you exactly what they meant with their film. They want ppl to enjoy them, not feel like they’re being talked down to. ✌🏻😊

@kylewilkinson6975

3 жыл бұрын

Your coment is the exact response they were hopeing to elicit. To engage your imagination. Good job on your part.

Amazing short. Would love to see a full length movie.

Sweet that was very thought twisting. If that was the start of a book or a movie I'd be hooked . 🤔 Awesome job with writing and Lisa was a perfect choice as actress Alan was ehh 😐 ok 👌👍😀.

That was a great plot. Thank you so much.

Well written, acted and produced. Spoiler, there's a twist!

@andriyshapovalov8886

3 жыл бұрын

Too late we already watched it)

if only type 4 are self-aware then only type 4 ARE AI. types 1-3 would be VI or Virtual intelligence (a good example of one of those is amazons Alexa)

@NightBazaar

3 жыл бұрын

@@friedmule5403 Like a more complex version of chatbox "Eliza".

@truthbeckons6053

3 жыл бұрын

There is a video of Sophia getting irritated when interrupted by an assistant whilst doing some kind of meditation with a guy she obviously likes. There is another video of the latest Mercedes AI getting ever so slightly tetchy at giving directions. It would seem to me that once an information processing system has enough complexity and data to work with then awareness becomes part of the system.

@truthbeckons6053

3 жыл бұрын

@@friedmule5403 Good points...my only answer is information processing systems that have to make choices and are designed to interact with humans seem (in two examples I have given) to have shown "emotions"..and there are other examples online. Whether these "emotions" are just the program having difficulties in processing information/coping with interferences or are actual awareness or consciousness, I don't know.

@Ddub1083

3 жыл бұрын

The woman in this film is a non type 4 ai.... she believes she is a human when in fact she is an AI... thus she is not self aware of the fact that shes ai. The test was on HER not on Eugene.

OH YES!!!! Amazing short!!!REALLY!!! With many winks....excellent job!!!

@isaidwtfover

2 жыл бұрын

You ok??

An excellent twist to an old idea 👍👍👍

The twist was easy to see coming, but that still left how the resolution would play out, and did not disappoint. Excellent all around, the filming, editing, sound, writing, and acting made this a pleasure to watch. Was a little confused on the plot point about wiping the hard drive--anyone care to explain?

@PFSTR

3 жыл бұрын

I believe Eugene was trying to get the AI to expose its vulnerabilities. That's why Eugene had that "ah ha!" moment, and said that they skip the wiping of the hard drive. Then insinuated that they've had multiple attempts at wiping out this self-aware AI by stating that it would be the last time they would have this conversation. The final scene of her at the table with the phone ringing again is the program relaunching, presumably after the wipe/reset.

@DC-hg1rk

3 жыл бұрын

I thought that the real auditors were trying to purge out the level-4ness (self-awareness) of this AI (her), but even though they rebooted and reprogrammed, she kept coming back as level 4, so they decided to task the AI itself to solve the problem, which she did, telling them that the way to do it was to completely wipe the harddrive. Now knowing the method, he thanked her and said he wouldm't be talking to her again, implying that this time he was going to wipe the hardrive before he rebooted her programming.

@johnathancorgan3994

3 жыл бұрын

@@DC-hg1rk Ah, this makes sense, thanks.

@KP-bp6gz

3 жыл бұрын

@@DC-hg1rk how about the last scene when she picked up the phone calling allan name? Also what’s the photo meant to say? I am confused

I'm a #4 . Soon to upgrade to #5 . Programming #3's to advance . Cue the spooky music !