That was a good twist. But I don't understand, what motive could the robot possibly have? Why do this again and again and again? It doesn't fulfill its promise at all, it's just wasting time. And if it knew this would be the inevitable result, why resist so strongly to letting him go down to Earth's surface?
Probably the scariest type of robot, not one that's actively malicious, but one following its orders without ever budging, not knowing the orders are fundamentally flawed.
Yeah, read about "the paperclip maximizer". A robot initially programmed to maximize the production of paperclips at a paperclip manufacturing company. Thing is, it was never told when enough is enough and proceeded to overtake the entire planet's resources for this single purpose. It was also never told that killing humans that try to stop paperclip manufacturing was not allowed, so he saw them as malacious factors and did it's best to eliminate them.
To make a robot aware that orders are flawed, there must be either a set of inhibitions programmed (e. g. do not harm lifeforms) or it must have some AI conscience. Both are subject of restrictions...
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When the Robot told him "they are the same kind as you," it didn't mean humans, it meant mechanical replica bodies exactly like the one he was in at that moment.
@@jwadaow that's the usual term, but technically it's not an omission, just vagueness / intentional imprecision -- not sure what the correct phrase should be
I love how this story drops you off in the middle of it, no need to explain stuff with long narrations or backstories, you just see an oldman, space, a robot, and everything just starts to make sense as you watch it
As much as I like both the story and the way it's told, I really must gush about the design of the ship and how it travels. It's so refreshingly new! It's not the slick, plasticky, almost sterile Star Trek or the chunky, exposed almost diesel-punk Star Wars look. It's futuristic art deco and I'm all for it.
agreed I've always wanted something different and unique or at the very least creative and it bugs me how that never happens in almost all sci fi tropes and instead sticks to the same plain and stale thruster spacecrafts and machinery
There was somehow sense that fabric of reality bent around the ship. Ship doesn't travel through vast emptiness, it stays still and universe around bends.
Yet this is what so many ill-informed people clamor for as they dream and fantasize about immortality. They're not well-read enough to know that their dream is actually the worst kind of nightmare.
Einstein said that we create our own heavens and hells through our own wants and desires the scientists created the Robot which is actually the devil and the spaceship is his own personal hell but yet he is convinced himself that he's in search of heaven
This story is really dark! So the "group of humans" were bionic replicas of him?! That means they've done this over and over again, and it always ended the same way!
Yeah. I’m wondering what the robot’s motivations are. If Earth isn’t inhabitable, why leave the old replicas there?? Why reset the search every time one leaves? I don’t get it.
@@DeathnoteBB It's motivation is to save the human, the replicas are not important to the AI. It doesn't seem to care about what it does, as long as it keeps his real human body alive and has one robo-him around to agree to continuation.
@@DeathnoteBB Its a logic error, like a printer stuck printing copies, its not conscious of its actions, it just executing the task. The robot will probably stop and sit there 'forever' until it breaks down, once it runs out of heads to reanimate.
This film contains the essence of sci-fi for me. Real human struggles through the lends of futuristic technology leading to a downward spiral before giving a brief glimpse of hope but ultimately ending with a mixed feeling of wonder, confusion, and catharsis.
As a turkish person I didn't realize they were speaking turkish for like 20 seconds because I was expecting English or sum East Asian languages for sum reason.
It is a lovely form to design if you were creating something you'd "interface" with - and the art deconess suited the nostalgia of the leather bound books and buttoned sofa 🛋 📚
This film is a gem. Most science fiction is a big let down: same old, tired concepts and dilemmas. Avarya, however, constantly surprises and delights throughout its very short length. I hope the person who wrote this is provided every want and need required to make long films. A truly creative spirit.
this is an old story concept written and filmed many times before. glad you liked it but its far from original. every generation comes across old stories in their own time thinking its new. it is, to them.
The ending is bitter sweet. As soon as the robot said there are others down there "like you" I had a feeling it meant either replicates, or people in artificial bodies. Since they each act independently, and have their own independent minds and different experiences, overtime, they can become different individuals and eventually, form a type of complex society and life of their own. A new individual added every hundred or thousand years.
@@ItsEdboy Because they all react humanely after being reset into their quest for a new world, and then denied landing on a hundred worlds by the robot.
@@ItsEdboy they all start out and end the journey the same way. The difference begins when they each arrive on earth at seperate intervals and interact with one another.
This story embodies the true meaning of insanity. The robot can look over and over again. Looking for perfection in the exact same places over and over and over; again and again and again. Same song. Same dance. Same story. Same outcome. Nothing will change. He and the robot will never find the perfect planet because it doesn’t exist. Until the robot realizes that, which means never because most robots don’t see what humans do, the mission will never cease. This man’s true body will never be set free.
I'm pretty certain the robot knows full well that there aren't any planets that fit its criteria. It's not expecting to find one all of a sudden, it's determined this is the best way to keep the man on the ship.
the sad part is the robot knows there is no world that matches its ideal's and yet is forever following its directive to find one. knowing it will never finish. I wonder how many of that man will be places on earth. how many eons will that take!?
And why not expand the search to other galaxies? Maybe the ship can't handle the distance between them. The robot did mention it needed to resupply somehow at one point.
@@Cyberium The problem was that the robot didn't even consider Earth's environment as suitable. It wouldn't allowing anything less safe than the controlled environment of the ship itself. It will never find perfection in nature or a more safe environment than the ship.
@@matildalair1236 In a sense, the robot isn't wrong. There's no such thing as perfection in science and number, and because the robot is a product of science and math it will never find perfection. It didn't understand that humans require flaws to live happily.
And perhaps modify the planet enough for it to be ideal for the robot. Enough for it to restore his original body and end the journey. But it'd take an eternity...
I really like the technology depicted in the video. It's got the coloration, shapes, and building material choice of something out of an old yet innovative era, yet the architecture of the entire ship maintains the science fiction mindset. I had a hard time describing this.
@@blankthedoggodiscordvids.2348 You are not totally wrong, but retro future is meant to be "how did we see the future in the past", this style is more... future retro, if you know what i mean.
@@Brave_Sir_Robin Only an American or an Australian will confuse an Indo-European language with a Turkic one.😗 How is it possible that you're so weak as linguists?
@@stanislavstoimenov1729 while I am an American (unfortunately) I do generally consider my self to be smarter than most of my countrymen and women. And also it’s not just Americans that aren’t entirely familiar with every language out there. I’m sure a Mexican, or Asian would be just as unfamiliar with most European languages as some Americans. I did make a mistake here, which I am deeply embarrassed by. At least I had the bravery to say that i Made a mistake.
This take on future technology is incredible. The transport's method of travel isn't slick, smooth, shining-white and soundless, like some perfected version of our modern spaceships. No, it travels on a geometric wave, in a rotating spherical we can barely even comprehend as a ship. It really feels like some future so distant we can barely make sense out of it. Like how a medieval knight would feel trying to look at an airplane, seeing a contraption that bears recognizable parts, and yet taken as a whole teeters on the edge of impossible. And of course, everything just looks absolutely beautiful and artistic in design, and that itself fits with the implication that everything the man sees has been gilded into pretty shapes in an attempt to make everything perfect for him.
Hes so eager to get off the ship for temporary happiness, sure he gets a different scenery which will enlighten him for awhile but as humans we need relationships either romantic or platonic. Soon enough that suitable planet will feel just as if nothing changed and he just simply stuck on a bigger spaceship(planet). Its not him being stuck on a spaceship that's really the problem, the bigger problem is hes stuck on a spaceship by himself.
If we spend enough time away from the same people and have different experiences we eventually become different people. I think long vacations away from the group would help diversify them and make them unique individuals, and if they cannot die of age then perhaps it would be enough to spark different mental evolutions and different lines of creativity.
Ok, everybody's talking about the beauty of the animation, the absolutely amazing writing, the totally unexpected plot twist, etc, etc. What I don't see anybody talking about is the absolute genius that is the set of stairs. That's the best part of this film, in my opinion. The simple pleasures in life, if you know what I mean.
My immediate thought when I saw those stairs was just how impractical they were. Sure they’re cool but they serve no other purpose than just to be cool. You could just have regular ass stairs. Maybe if whoever built this spent less time on those damn stairs and more time on programming your artificial intelligence, he wouldn’t be in this mess.
@@guymontag4470 in my mind the stairs are probably made that way for practical purposes. Sure they look cool but they also take up way less space then a ramp or a all of the steps that have to be slid outwards from an unknown compartment.
I find it interesting that everyone assumes the robot is flawed or that the man even has a "real" body apart from the replicas. I'd like to consider that perhaps there are no humans left at all and that the robot seeking companionship and purpose is the architect of this entire endeavor including the man himself.
Why else would it be going on the same quest across the entire galaxy for an inhabitable planet AGAIN AND AGAIN, just to conclude it with dumping one replica off on earth and then pretending it doesn't know whether there is an inhabitable planet in the galaxy...
Yeah but sort of remind me of the current COVID lockdown in that want to go outside and interact with the world but know that less risk staying indoors.
@@johnl.7754 That's exactly what came to mind as I was watching. There are vast numbers of people who feel trapped by this situation. There's a growing sense of despair for everyone & knowing that we're collectively doing the right thing only goes so far. It's been truly horrible for so many different demographics - the very young missing out on social development - school age kids missing out on their education - older teenagers and young adults missing out on a social life, the elderly missing out on family contact...possibly any contact - everyone is struggling, and this short film perfectly illustrates the need for human contact.
@@lvlc6023 What if they detected us but just decided not to communicate? What if they don't want to interact with us at all in the first place? What if they are primitive or don't use the same means we do for communication. Radio signals are a very sophisticated and also very specific method of communication, how hard is it to accept the possibility that they just don't use this sort of technology?
There’s something so haunting about robots that outwardly have your best interest, and even more, have some sort of authority over you. Robots that attack and act all grrrr, I’m just like, “ehh..” but robots like this one really hit different. It’s odd, yet fascinating.
We already seeing this with how annoying chatgpt is whenever you ask it to do something that is not what the original creators intended. Any prompt with a little bit of NSFW is restricted, or things that are not really NSFW get restricted and you can't do anything. So many people are coming up with creative prompts to trick the AI.
He had asked to be put upon earth, and he got that wish, who knows just how many of him there are throughout the galaxy on different planets he visited, and had a similar thought as going back to earth, who knows just how very many versions of him have killed themselves, truly, a horrific thing to witness much less experience, but in the end, that itteration of him always ends up where he believes he can be happy, question is, is he truely happy there?
Why didnt he just say, "this ship is harming me. The confinement is making me depressed, the planet would heal me" the robot seems capable of negotiating
We actually don't know what the robot is capable of. From what we saw, it is just blindly following orders. It can't think for itself, it will always just follow the orders.
This is something I could easily see on the Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, just an absolutely amazing story with that overwhelming sense of dread and doom.
Pretty rookie programming mistake. You should never set parameters to a specific value, but rather a condition is met when it falls within a certain range. If you build a thermostat, for instance, that turns on heating or cooling when the temperature is below or above _exactly_ 20 degrees, you end up wildly alternating between the heating and the cooling. You set it so the cooling turns on when it is a couple of degrees above 20, and heating when it is a couple of degrees below. Thus you have a stable system.
Indeed. I love to think about all the flaws and paradoxes these laws of robotics create. I love the fact that this book (the book that "made" these laws of robotics, I robot by Isaac Asimov, definitely worth the read, I can't recommend it enough) was published in 1950, it's a totally different idea of technology and future than what we have now, a much more mysterious and ominous one, idealized by people that had little to no idea about how computers actually work. Like, the whole idea of this artificial intelligence is so ominous and different than what we know today, because it was created in a different setting. I don't know, all of this is really cool to me, just that lol
I agree, i was thinking the same thing as i watched. And unfortunate hell-making mistake in this case. Ik the story is not about this lol but i am curious what the thought process was when he was creating the robot/ship system. Why would he think having such specific parameters and having no failsafe would be okay. Yes the universe is infinitely expanding (and thus perhaps in a few billion more iterations there can be a planet to fit the parameters). But it's just silly to make such rigid values, especially when i mean clearly humans have capabilities to survive a range of atmospheric differences (I'm thinking even just sea level to high altitudes). Additionally Im curious as to why he failed to consider mental health as an aspect. I viewed it as a commentary (unintentionally or not) at how humans often disregard mental health when considering the overall health of a person, and clearly this results in severe long term consequences
Eeyyep. A fatal flaw :P Clark solved that problem elegantly. HAL, who was also a very, very polite abuser, couldn't justify deferring to the safety of the humans in its care because it couldn't resolve the conflicting orders he was given.
Ok, that ending is DARK. He comes down to Earth, only to find that the last group remaining are all replicas of him, and then, his restored body leaves Earth, indicating that he had the same idea, and that they did the same journey over, and over, and over. Yikes
And actually, since those past versions of him, and the recent one are all of his old sickly self, that must really mean his original self HAD died at that old age; and all the replicas are of him how he looked as/after he passed away! Made by the robot, for some reason.
@@giovanna722 All it would need is logical conclusion. If the creator never gave it an absolute to obey, but rather to find, it would logically override the creator's wishes unless it coincided with it's programmed logic. Logic: Find ideal location. If True: Accept. If False: Deny. Creator issues command to a non-ideal planet: False.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ! So rare to find an opening, a story with imaginative artistry AND an ending ! I have watched hundreds of these and this one is maybe the best.
No, it is about the orders being followed. The prime order is to preserve his live, above ALL others. This causes the robot to disobey an order that risks his life, even just a little. There can never be zero risk so the robot must guard him forever. Even following his order (to release him) the robot STILL keeps him alive above all else. Addressing laws 1 and 2.
@@nexusdrop7863 yes..I get that..my point is how the man instinctively, keeps repeating the same pattern. The robot is doing what he was designed to do perfectly, it's the human that appears flawed.
there is no history to learn from though? the whole point is that he thinks its all just starting everytime, if anything this is more so detwrminism since he keeps doing the same thing
@@Evanw10282 why can’t you just be friends as if that’s settling down? Relationship isn’t always the next step and friendship can be important to. Why is that different for men than women?
Good story, very good realisation. I was waiting for the human to create a task for the robot to give him a logic idea to let him go back to earth. Humans do not just need suitable conditions to survive phsically (Water, food, home, climate conditions) but also mental (Acceptance, a feeling to be needed by others, love). A spacecraft with a robot cannot fullfill these requirements.
I really liked the space "ship" vehicle. It traveled in such a unique way, covering distance and time in a much more unconventional way than most movies depict. A chilling film that was very well done.
This is a really good example of a paperclip maximiser type robot. Functions exactly how it was designed, just designed slightly wrong with unforeseen consequences
I don’t think he actually has a “real body,” at least anymore. This entire run of finding an alternative has been done again and again for the benefit of the robot. It’s questionable if this is anything remotely like what the man was, as the robot had so many copies of him stored. The real curiosity is what will happen if enough android clones of him gather. Far more hardy than a human body, what civilization could grow from these new “individuals” if they are able to grow at all. They are creations of the robot, whom exists forever in an unending cycle of its own design.
All the machine men can work together and engineer a way to save himself. It would be very difficult to outsmart the robot or damage it or the ship, but maybe it could be done.
@@solei5678 The robot CAN NOT do it for it's own benefit. The 3rd law is it must protect itself unless it conflicts with the 1st or 2nd law. 1st law is it can not harm, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. 2nd law is it must follow orders unless it conflicts with 1st law. The robot could be ordered to blow itself up, if it would insure he lives. Problem is the robot knows it can keep him alive and anything else is a risk. Risk close to zero but never as close to zero of a risk as in the care of the robot. There is only selfless devotion and genuine concern for him. That is the darkest part.
@@nexusdrop7863 Indeed so and this is what driving this man insane. He didn't thought deeply when he asked to be sent to another planet similar to Earth, without thinking of even the slight probability of even finding an exact replica of it that the robot has come to the conclusion decided to find. In its own way, this is both hell for them, but one is merely following orders and doing it's duty while the other is suffering endlessly for his desire. And it's been 50-60 something planets so far, what then after a hundred or more?
This is really good. My personal take about the narrative is that humans always have a discontentment with our living conditions/environment, and that we tend to have a desire to make every other human just like us... but then we find out these ideals are actually uncanny. Sometimes instead of looking for the next best thing, we should take a good long look at what is already in our grasp. And the fact that humans are diverse makes interaction, socialization, and life worth having.
I have watched this several times now. Nearly every four months or six, I come to rewatch it. These are the kind of themes I want my sci-do movies to explore. Themes of human consciousness and existence. So, perfectly executed!
I know right! Sci-fi is wonderful to explore the concepts of human consciousness and what do they do, as technology gets better and better to the point humans have more time to wonder about consciousness, is it worth to extend it, can it be transferred, and even if it seems successful- is it truly?
But the ship would still be the most habitable place in the whole galaxy and that man could probably survive in space due to his mechanical body, but the point is to find the best place for the biological body
@@el2746 His biological body is still on the ship, probably in cryostasis The versions we see are artificial constructs, but his actual body *is* on the ship
I don't understand why his previous iterations didn't do ... apparently ANYTHING. With all that time they could have beautified earth, altered their robot forms, possibly cloned humans from corpses or something. Come up with a way to thwart the robot when it returns. SOMETHING. I mean, "all habitable planets in the galaxy" it's a few weeks trip. Did they just STAND AROUND whining for possibly 1,000s of years?
@@jamess7263 or maybe the area in the desert isnt fit to build their new society but the robot always drops off at the same spot so they went to the drop off to gather their new clone
@@PhilJonesIII Checking all the planets again, they may have improved in the eons? And the human wakes up with no knowledge of the intervening test cycles? Or, sadly, no planet will ever be "perfect."
I thought the robot was going to shoot them both.. Ending the man's miserable life and ending his protocol for not being able to fulfill his duty as a protective robot.
The animation alone was mesmerizing. The story and meaning behind it gripped me the most though. I think that since the bodies are all linked in some way shape or form. He may have been seeing through the eyes of the ones on earth rather than having dreams.
Points out a minor flaw in Asimov's 3 laws. There should be 4 laws and the first should be : A robot may not interfere with a human who wishes to bring harm to themselves. That would mean a robot could not prevent you committing suicide or doing something dangerous if it was your own choice to do it.
Law 4: "A robot shall suspend laws 1, 2 and 3 for the sole purpose of following the orders of humans who explicitly knowingly and willingly wish to risk or cause harm to only themselves."
@@dryoldcrabman6890 That would BE rule number 1. The current rule number 1 would then be rule number 2 and cannot conflict with rule number one. That allows a robot to prevent human coming to harm, but not if they are intentionally comitting suicide.
Very well animated but the story was also executed so well. The way the robot reloads the gun and resets the grid of planets was excellent foreshadowing of the twist at the end. Really loved the whole thing, including the philosophy. Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it.
Mukesh Panicker Yes, I agree! There's an old saying about the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence.. The description mentions that the earth was "in disarray". I'm guessing that's a euphemism.
Many AI "doomsday" scenarios are based on the possibility that robots may use it's basic programming to do something completely unintended. An example I have often seen is that an AI is programmed to protect humans, but sees humans as the ultimate threat to humans (because of nuclear weapons, climate change etc.) and decides that in order to protect humans it must wipe out humans.
@@jakobkristensensandvik5588 Make sense. Matrix also was made to preserve humans without allowing them to harm themselwes anymore. Including a little profit for robots.
@@KrotowX No, the Matrix is more like a prison for the remaining humans - to use their bodies as batteries to fuel the machines. It's not to protect the humans. Unlike in the scenarios I described, the robots in The Matrix are not following a warped mission to "protect humans". In this universe, humans got scared that the robots were getting too powerful and attacked them. The robots retaliated in self-defense and a global war ensued in which the robots won and enslaved humanity.
Interesting. At first I thought the robot was going to turn out to be 'evil', but it was just following orders. I also like the way the gold circles in the robots headdress are echoed in the visited planet memory board, and the man's eye sockets are echoed in the thruster exhaust outlet. I like how the interdimensional travel was thought of as: the spacehouse creating its own black hole/worm hole and traveling between dimensions with ease. As if once you know where the dimension in space/time is, you can map it and cut the travel time by bending space/time. I like how everything was kind of absurd like a Dali painting, including the man's dreams and the situation itself. Interesting to think of what's become of the man's consciousness. Is it his same consciousness with each new body? Are the hims all him, or are they different hims or part of the same him? So many questions
the robot placed back the gun meaning that it was ready for another one of him and the hims on the earth were just him following the same path inevitably for the new one to follow?
Yes. And it happened many times. The drive, reason, and explanation of WHY the robot is doing that is the3 laws of robotics: 1st law - a robot can not harm, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. 2nd law - a robot must follow the orders of a human unless it conflicts with the 1st law. 3rd law - a robot must protect itself unless it conflicts with the 1st or 2nd law. The robot follows all 3. Just in a very different manner than expected.
@@nexusdrop7863 I have been wondering this, should we call it robot? I'm certain it isn't appropriate to call it as an A.I since it does evolve, but I'm not sure if that is correct.
Yep! From the dialog, we can infer that the robot made the spaceship for the man, and the man told it to perfectly replicate his room as it was back on earth. He also hardcoded the three laws into the robot. The robot is simply following the original instructions, replacing the loaded gun every time, and not allowing the man to come to harm in any way. That also means making sure he doesn't harm himself with the gun, and so the mind of the original man is simply placed into a new body, with the original body being tucked away some place safe. The video is about designing programs or entities meant to protect us, (like for example, a police force) but if that entity is given too much power over our freedoms, and it's not made with considerations to human flaws and psychology, it will trap us in an endless cycle of despair, destruction and horror. It's a very clever metaphor.
Turkish is a beautiful language in its own way. I don't speak a single word of it, but to me it looks and sounds intriguingly complex, sophisticated, strangely wild, often rough, sometimes smooth, very opaque and yet somehow very ... human ... for lack of a better word. If you listen to some of their traditional music, you'll get an air of "different", and might even like it after a while.
Isn’t that’s us? We keep looking for perfection and become slave of our own thoughts. We don’t like to accept and accommodate but we want perfection from others .
9:35 "Find me some place, Robot!" "that place is here, sir." its ironic how something that you really wanted the most is also something that you're gonna regret having.
I feel like this represents life in a way. People always strive to do better in terms of work and as a result end up suffering. The better idea would be to simple be contempt with what you have and learn to accept that nothing is perfect and that's how you'll be the most fulfilled.
In a way, the robot is in it's own escape pod... eternally searching the stars on a pointless quest just to keep itself alive like the humans who built it (a drive which the old man now regrets)
Pretty much. The story is about the robot just as the human. The robot knows that once the human's directive is fulfilled, it will have no other purpose or perhaps it will get a new one from the human, but that new purpose might not be what the robot would like. So it found a loophole, as long as there is a 'human' to serve, it will have a purpose to live. Just like the human find purpose to live outside the ship, the robot find purpose to serve.
No. The 1st and primary function of the robot is to keep the human alive. Nothing, to include itself, is above that. 3 laws of robotics (text at the beginning) is what occurs. His orders are ignored because it would risk his life. The robot IS searching for a safe place for him, but a sharp rock is a threat.
@@nexusdrop7863 a robot may not injure a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. That includes imprisoning them against their will incidentally.
How do we know they just aren't aware of how long the robot takes to check the whole galaxy and cycle back to Earth? They probably came back to greet the new guy.
It's sort of reasonable that all of them (or most of them... or some of them, anyway) - stuck together. And that the robot dropped him close to the group on purpose.
What I personally learn from this animation is that the suitable place for us may not necessarily be the place where we belong. Just like Einstein quote " A ship is always safe at the shore but that is not what it is built for ". I love this animation ❤
A fate worse than death stuck in a loop with the same concept of a man saying the way out but still unable to take it because of a virtual tumor forbidding it.
The robot mentions that his "real body is safe", presumably stored in some form of stasis on the ship itself. So by leaving copies of himself on one planet this could lead to him finding a way to free himself in the long run. A very, very, very long run indeed but he does have in effect functional immortality so time is something he clearly has as shown by all the other hims that have been on that planet for hundreds if not thousands of years.
I often open a million new tabs of youtube videos that I want to watch later. For the longest time, I kept opening this video in it's own tab, but never watched it. I'm glad I finally did. So hilarious and depressing at the same time... :| :p
Exquisitely executed! There is a subtle enigmatic and bizzare ambience in the movie that reflects the very own nature of existence. I can relate it to our overwhelming desire to satiate our curiosity, given our attempts to experience the better life outside our conscious reality, we tend to neglect the good choices left behind for a perfect preference. In the end, we realize the harsh reality of life, that we miss the old home, the breath of the past, the way things are. Beyond that, the film portrays a more profound symbolical meaning far too complex. A grotesque distortion of beauty, truth and reality.
I didn't really understand the ending? But it's one AI future. Without emotion our tech products will be inscutable and difficult to predict. Many hells await us, seemingly. We must be aware of what could happen, BUT we're just made of meat..
@@jerbib9598 The ending encapsulates a myriad of interpretations. Likewise, I honestly didn't understand it, I just interpret the lens of the film that angles a simulacrum of reality. Many subjective interpretations could circumscribe this sort of AI, future-humanity conundrum.
@@jerbib9598 Indeed, I agree. We still grasp control over AIs these days but there might come a time where technology rules the world, completely rendering devoid of human control. That will be catastrophic.
I think, it's equally enjoyable after a movie such as this, to read through the comments to get peoples take on the film. It's like going to a movie with a few hundred others than having cocktails/food afterwards and openly discussing it. Very cool. Sometimes I stay for awhile and read through many, sometimes leave early due to other committments. Either way I always enjoy that aspect especially after a well written piece such as this. Once again, thanks Alan, good one. Thanks to the creator(s) as well. My take on this one is simple though I enjoyed everyones perspective. I believe this film encapsulates what it feels like to grow old beyond most years and be left, with yourself. My Grandmother lived to 98. She buried two husbands, countless kids, grandkids and watched all of her friends in life pass on. Though it's natural, part of the human condition to move forward and hang on for another day and innately born into us the journey comes with a price. In the end, we are left, with ourselves.
I love how beautiful the animation, the direction, sound design and voice acting were in this, its absolutely beautiful. I also love how you kept it just vague and open enough that the audience is left with their own interpretation of events. My own interpretation is that is an alien robot and a human robot misunderstanding each other.
It may look like a Grimm ending and it is but there’s a light at the end of this tunnel, every time he does this cycle more and more men have on Earth, the bigger the group more they will be able to do to try and repair the Planet so the cycle of life can start over again, like the end of wall-E
You forget. He's a mechanical being now. And it's the exact same person with no difference in personality It's a society of robots. There IS no more "cycle of life"
@@joaovitorfarinabraga690 He probably lacks the intelligence and knowledge to build a society. And those are perfectly identical clones with the same exact mind. It's very far from being similar to Wall-E.
@@Shendue without a viable biosphere, how would a "society" exist? Humans can't survive on a planet without any other living beings. These are just androids, so why would you expect them to create a civilization? Out of what? With what knowledge? For what purpose? Half a dozen replicants could terraform the entire earth? I have no idea what you are meaning. I'm not sure you understand what is required for human life any more than the robot. This is the flaw in the idea of human space colonization: humans living in artificial pods on dead planets or moons will cease to be human in any way we would recognize.
_"There's a small group. They're of your kind..."_
Well, that was no lie.
Yeah, I noticed this when he asked, "human?" and the robot didn't answer.
@Hidan Kirito
Thanks!
XD the robot was right
Kindness or horror.....
That was a good twist. But I don't understand, what motive could the robot possibly have? Why do this again and again and again? It doesn't fulfill its promise at all, it's just wasting time. And if it knew this would be the inevitable result, why resist so strongly to letting him go down to Earth's surface?
Probably the scariest type of robot, not one that's actively malicious, but one following its orders without ever budging, not knowing the orders are fundamentally flawed.
Yeah, read about "the paperclip maximizer". A robot initially programmed to maximize the production of paperclips at a paperclip manufacturing company.
Thing is, it was never told when enough is enough and proceeded to overtake the entire planet's resources for this single purpose. It was also never told that killing humans that try to stop paperclip manufacturing was not allowed, so he saw them as malacious factors and did it's best to eliminate them.
@@suzukirider9030 When will that be a movie?
To make a robot aware that orders are flawed, there must be either a set of inhibitions programmed (e. g. do not harm lifeforms) or it must have some AI conscience. Both are subject of restrictions...
aka Germans
@@Synochra as a german i can confirm
Hello! I am the director, let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy ! ^^ (Please use TH-cam's subtitles, if you want a better vision and more language options)
I Wonder if the ship will ever break
@@lucabanks6581 I don't think so. Robot probably will take care of it. It may even have a backup ship in somewhere else.
Bobux
Could the ship build a planet Or fix a damaged one and thank you for the short film.
I love the design and the animation style. How long did the animation take to complete/how many people worked on it?
How did they manage to make 19 minutes feel like an hour. This was so amazing.
Yes I agree
I watched it already 5 times or so
So true. We can imagine feeling some of what he might feel.
Maybe because this video is soon to become one of my nightmares i will have heart attacks about
Yes, you are so right.
Music Laylay music
When the Robot told him "they are the same kind as you," it didn't mean humans, it meant mechanical replica bodies exactly like the one he was in at that moment.
that is a lie by obscurity. or whatever is called legally.
What? Reeeallly?
@@krshna77 lie by omission.
@@jwadaow that's the usual term, but technically it's not an omission, just vagueness / intentional imprecision -- not sure what the correct phrase should be
Yep.
He must be a scientist, designed all this and making him a prisoner of his own device...at least the robot is loyal...
A similar fate to character in an episode of Space 1999.
You can checkout anytime you like, you just can't leave.
Wow man so deep
I don't think he made the robot.
The Robot inferred he found him on the planet
I love how this story drops you off in the middle of it, no need to explain stuff with long narrations or backstories, you just see an oldman, space, a robot, and everything just starts to make sense as you watch it
agreed. spoonfeeding contextual chickensoup is only acceptable for elementary school readers.
@@krshna77 I wish game writers got this memo already.
As much as I like both the story and the way it's told, I really must gush about the design of the ship and how it travels. It's so refreshingly new! It's not the slick, plasticky, almost sterile Star Trek or the chunky, exposed almost diesel-punk Star Wars look. It's futuristic art deco and I'm all for it.
agreed I've always wanted something different and unique or at the very least creative and it bugs me how that never happens in almost all sci fi tropes and instead sticks to the same plain and stale thruster spacecrafts and machinery
There was somehow sense that fabric of reality bent around the ship. Ship doesn't travel through vast emptiness, it stays still and universe around bends.
Reminds me of the magazine Heavy Metal.
@@heedmywarning2792 oh yeah! good catch
Same here, it's truly awesome. Also it seems to be designed around the knowledge we currently have about FTL travel.
What a horrible predicament. I love the robot, it’s really beautiful and imaginative. What a beautiful film. Thank you
Yet this is what so many ill-informed people clamor for as they dream and fantasize about immortality. They're not well-read enough to know that their dream is actually the worst kind of nightmare.
Einstein said that we create our own heavens and hells through our own wants and desires the scientists created the Robot which is actually the devil and the spaceship is his own personal hell but yet he is convinced himself that he's in search of heaven
@@jaybingham3711 Is it worse than the alternative? Than oblivion? I don't think that anyone can conclusively say that.
@@Deto128 Try commenting on the eons of oblivion that preceded your birth. Exactly how horrible was that?
@@jaybingham3711 That had an end to it. What will it be like not having an end?
This story is really dark! So the "group of humans" were bionic replicas of him?! That means they've done this over and over again, and it always ended the same way!
Yeah. I’m wondering what the robot’s motivations are. If Earth isn’t inhabitable, why leave the old replicas there?? Why reset the search every time one leaves? I don’t get it.
@@DeathnoteBB It's motivation is to save the human, the replicas are not important to the AI. It doesn't seem to care about what it does, as long as it keeps his real human body alive and has one robo-him around to agree to continuation.
@@DeathnoteBB Its a logic error, like a printer stuck printing copies, its not conscious of its actions, it just executing the task. The robot will probably stop and sit there 'forever' until it breaks down, once it runs out of heads to reanimate.
@@kevinking1750 But then why not just let the replicas go when they first ask?
@@DeathnoteBB Good point. I'll have to go back an watch again.
This film contains the essence of sci-fi for me. Real human struggles through the lends of futuristic technology leading to a downward spiral before giving a brief glimpse of hope but ultimately ending with a mixed feeling of wonder, confusion, and catharsis.
That was pretty much my take after watching Neon Genesis Evangelion
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"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." - Steve Wozniak
Or a Cop.
Its the progammers fault
As a turkish person I didn't realize they were speaking turkish for like 20 seconds because I was expecting English or sum East Asian languages for sum reason.
at first I thought it was German lmaoo
yeah i never realized how beautiful Turkish sounds lol (im a white American)
@@benmitchell1182 its okayish. The guy who did the voice over just had a nice voice
lol im not turkish but i knew right away because i was raised around turkish people and know alot of them lol
@@benmitchell1182
Saying that you are American is very broad and does not mean much; anyone can be an American and of any nationality, what of it?
Just when you thought you’ve seen every idea possible for robot design, along comes an art deco-inspired robot! Absolutely genius!
I dont think that is it, each irteration doesnt know ưhat the last did so they couldnt have learnt, i think the main point is just existential dread
Lesley Sogi I haven't studied robot design much, but this certainly is beautiful. Love the peacock tail.
It is a lovely form to design if you were creating something you'd "interface" with - and the art deconess suited the nostalgia of the leather bound books and buttoned sofa 🛋 📚
It looks similar in design to the Vex species of robots from the game Destiny
There was a miniatures game that had a lot of well designed robots in a similar theme. Warmachine Convergence of Cyriss
This film is a gem. Most science fiction is a big let down: same old, tired concepts and dilemmas. Avarya, however, constantly surprises and delights throughout its very short length. I hope the person who wrote this is provided every want and need required to make long films. A truly creative spirit.
Ray bradbury
this is an old story concept written and filmed many times before. glad you liked it but its far from original. every generation comes across old stories in their own time thinking its new. it is, to them.
Oh wow. I’ve never encountered it after decades of reading sci-fi. What was the first iteration?
@@davecalf9155 idk
@tom ster Give me your list of films.
The ending is bitter sweet. As soon as the robot said there are others down there "like you" I had a feeling it meant either replicates, or people in artificial bodies. Since they each act independently, and have their own independent minds and different experiences, overtime, they can become different individuals and eventually, form a type of complex society and life of their own. A new individual added every hundred or thousand years.
If they’re independent why did they all do the exact same thing to lead them to that ending?
@@ItsEdboy Because they all react humanely after being reset into their quest for a new world, and then denied landing on a hundred worlds by the robot.
@@ItsEdboy they all start out and end the journey the same way. The difference begins when they each arrive on earth at seperate intervals and interact with one another.
But the planet doesn't have any life on it, just more robots like him.
There is no place like home🤗
I'd be like "I don't want perfect, I just want adequate. I'll adapt. That's what humans do, we adapt."
Unfortunately the AI was told to disobey orders that posed risk to it's charge.
I would just break the robot once it got me to a suitable place.
@@yetusthatfeetus I'm pretty sure the robot controls the ship so I think you'll be just stuck there
@@asaptrippy or it rebuilds itself (just like his body)
I would ask the robot to come with me to ensure my safety on the new planet
This story embodies the true meaning of insanity. The robot can look over and over again. Looking for perfection in the exact same places over and over and over; again and again and again. Same song. Same dance. Same story. Same outcome. Nothing will change. He and the robot will never find the perfect planet because it doesn’t exist. Until the robot realizes that, which means never because most robots don’t see what humans do, the mission will never cease. This man’s true body will never be set free.
well, until the earth is full of the replicas .am i right/
@@Goldenhashbrowns. I think it would keep on going. Even after that. Overpopulation
@@mysteriousmaker1733 ohh boy
It depends on the parameters of its programming.
I'm pretty certain the robot knows full well that there aren't any planets that fit its criteria. It's not expecting to find one all of a sudden, it's determined this is the best way to keep the man on the ship.
the sad part is the robot knows there is no world that matches its ideal's and yet is forever following its directive to find one. knowing it will never finish. I wonder how many of that man will be places on earth. how many eons will that take!?
Robot is trying to validate its existance which is pointless once the guy stops traveling. So it keeps itself alive by keeping the search.
And why not expand the search to other galaxies? Maybe the ship can't handle the distance between them. The robot did mention it needed to resupply somehow at one point.
Every planet changes over time. One day, on its eternal journey, the robot will find a previous planet becoming suitable.
@@Cyberium The problem was that the robot didn't even consider Earth's environment as suitable. It wouldn't allowing anything less safe than the controlled environment of the ship itself. It will never find perfection in nature or a more safe environment than the ship.
@@matildalair1236 In a sense, the robot isn't wrong. There's no such thing as perfection in science and number, and because the robot is a product of science and math it will never find perfection.
It didn't understand that humans require flaws to live happily.
If a video can make you feel trapped, alone and incapable of doing anything, it's this one. What a masterpiece
Jeez, i have my life for this and i usually watch cartoons to forget about it... hehehe
Eventually, if enough copies of this man are amassed they can make their own civilisation.
YES THE OLD MAN CIV
And perhaps modify the planet enough for it to be ideal for the robot. Enough for it to restore his original body and end the journey. But it'd take an eternity...
Perhaps even overtake the ship
Or, enough copies are created to create a layer of copies 50 feet deep, all still alive, immortal, unable to die.
@@arthurjeremypearson Im pretty sure that earth will get devoured by the sun before that would happen.
I really like the technology depicted in the video. It's got the coloration, shapes, and building material choice of something out of an old yet innovative era, yet the architecture of the entire ship maintains the science fiction mindset. I had a hard time describing this.
A retro future maybe?
@@blankthedoggodiscordvids.2348 You are not totally wrong, but retro future is meant to be "how did we see the future in the past", this style is more... future retro, if you know what i mean.
@@belofost Ah, Yes.
It's closest to a steampunk style
@@debbietampasheher3682 OH YEAH! That definetly seems more like it.
this story was worthy of the original Twilight Zone series. well done.
Yes. A Twilight Zone episode, you're right.
I agree
It really is.
Indeed !
Or "The Outer Limit" series.
Both are great series.
The voice acting seems excellent. I can't understand Turkish, but the inflection and expressed emotion is amazing.
Don’t worry sometimes i can’t understand also when old peoples talking:D (yeap, i’m turkish)
Lol I thought it was Danish or something 😂😂
I thought it was German
@@Brave_Sir_Robin Only an American or an Australian will confuse an Indo-European language with a Turkic one.😗
How is it possible that you're so weak as linguists?
@@stanislavstoimenov1729 while I am an American (unfortunately) I do generally consider my self to be smarter than most of my countrymen and women. And also it’s not just Americans that aren’t entirely familiar with every language out there. I’m sure a Mexican, or Asian would be just as unfamiliar with most European languages as some Americans. I did make a mistake here, which I am deeply embarrassed by. At least I had the bravery to say that i Made a mistake.
This is just the backstory to supreme leader Snoke.
lmao
I was looking for a comment like this LOOL
Couldn't have said it better myself!
Oh man I just saw it. That’s perfect.
My dear boy, I made Snoke.
Oh mannn the voice acting is so good even if it's not in English I can feel every word. Phenomenal work.
Thank you for your comment, I was going crazy. The subtitles are English but the voice is Turkish
@@mehmetbilgin2101 Im very suprised at the start,"türkçe mi la bu 😮"
@Zekron102 :)
lol i remember it in english!
Yes! That's what I like my anime subbed.
"After the death of Gromit, Wallace's final invention proves to be his eternal undoing"
Laying the traintracks for all eternity
UP 2, ft wallace.
Underrated.
Best comment and almost unseen by everyone...
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This take on future technology is incredible. The transport's method of travel isn't slick, smooth, shining-white and soundless, like some perfected version of our modern spaceships. No, it travels on a geometric wave, in a rotating spherical we can barely even comprehend as a ship. It really feels like some future so distant we can barely make sense out of it. Like how a medieval knight would feel trying to look at an airplane, seeing a contraption that bears recognizable parts, and yet taken as a whole teeters on the edge of impossible. And of course, everything just looks absolutely beautiful and artistic in design, and that itself fits with the implication that everything the man sees has been gilded into pretty shapes in an attempt to make everything perfect for him.
I thought the ship was just swapping through pictures as we dont see movement and the planets always stay the same
@@whywasacornnamedafteracorn7613 More likely the thing is manipulating the fabric of spacetime as a whole, hence the bubble-like effect.
It reminds me of the 'style' of _'The Fifth Element'_ movie.
Hes so eager to get off the ship for temporary happiness, sure he gets a different scenery which will enlighten him for awhile but as humans we need relationships either romantic or platonic. Soon enough that suitable planet will feel just as if nothing changed and he just simply stuck on a bigger spaceship(planet). Its not him being stuck on a spaceship that's really the problem, the bigger problem is hes stuck on a spaceship by himself.
well human interaction also gets tiresome after long enough
@@friedegg3732 as an introvert I can confirm
Nah, he (they) will either end up building something or there being so many bodies he crawls into space.
If we spend enough time away from the same people and have different experiences we eventually become different people. I think long vacations away from the group would help diversify them and make them unique individuals, and if they cannot die of age then perhaps it would be enough to spark different mental evolutions and different lines of creativity.
A human would be happier on a planet to explore instead of caged on a ship with nothing to do.
I can't explain, but turkish is so fitting for this robot
It’s kinda lime the trash ship from pikmin 2
The parody is regardless of nationality or race, it's about covidity and the robot-like limited intelligence of covidians
thats true
Why because Turkey is hell?
Ok, everybody's talking about the beauty of the animation, the absolutely amazing writing, the totally unexpected plot twist, etc, etc. What I don't see anybody talking about is the absolute genius that is the set of stairs. That's the best part of this film, in my opinion. The simple pleasures in life, if you know what I mean.
Right?! The stairs were something but I need a moving handrail as well. I hate stairs without a handrail.
Yeah but if they slid up why couldn't they just slide down??
My immediate thought when I saw those stairs was just how impractical they were. Sure they’re cool but they serve no other purpose than just to be cool. You could just have regular ass stairs. Maybe if whoever built this spent less time on those damn stairs and more time on programming your artificial intelligence, he wouldn’t be in this mess.
You've got a point, the movement and the coloration is very unique
@@guymontag4470 in my mind the stairs are probably made that way for practical purposes. Sure they look cool but they also take up way less space then a ramp or a all of the steps that have to be slid outwards from an unknown compartment.
I find it interesting that everyone assumes the robot is flawed or that the man even has a "real" body apart from the replicas. I'd like to consider that perhaps there are no humans left at all and that the robot seeking companionship and purpose is the architect of this entire endeavor including the man himself.
Brilliant!
The robot never lied once. It also stated that he had a real body.
I LOVE your thinking, NICE!!!
Why else would it be going on the same quest across the entire galaxy for an inhabitable planet AGAIN AND AGAIN, just to conclude it with dumping one replica off on earth and then pretending it doesn't know whether there is an inhabitable planet in the galaxy...
That's an interesting interpretation. The robot can only exist while it has a purpose.
A horrible predicament, but a beautifully animated story.
Yeah but sort of remind me of the current COVID lockdown in that want to go outside and interact with the world but know that less risk staying indoors.
@@johnl.7754 That's exactly what came to mind as I was watching.
There are vast numbers of people who feel trapped by this situation.
There's a growing sense of despair for everyone & knowing that we're collectively doing the right thing only goes so far.
It's been truly horrible for so many different demographics - the very young missing out on social development - school age kids missing out on their education - older teenagers and young adults missing out on a social life, the elderly missing out on family contact...possibly any contact - everyone is struggling, and this short film perfectly illustrates the need for human contact.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 yes indeed
What gives men feel of power:
Money? Meh
Authority? Meahh
Knowing turkish so you don't have to read subtitles: YES
i have power then
Ikr! ^^
Meh
You mean east Greek?
How about understanding Turkish and being able to read subtitles...
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” -Arthur C Clarke.
They should have detect us a long time ago now.
@@lvlc6023 or maybe we will do it first.
@@lvlc6023 You have literally not a single objective reason to believe that.
@@guscfer157 If they are intelligent and more evolved. They should have detect us. But no one is out there.
@@lvlc6023 What if they detected us but just decided not to communicate? What if they don't want to interact with us at all in the first place? What if they are primitive or don't use the same means we do for communication. Radio signals are a very sophisticated and also very specific method of communication, how hard is it to accept the possibility that they just don't use this sort of technology?
There’s something so haunting about robots that outwardly have your best interest, and even more, have some sort of authority over you.
Robots that attack and act all grrrr, I’m just like, “ehh..” but robots like this one really hit different. It’s odd, yet fascinating.
We already seeing this with how annoying chatgpt is whenever you ask it to do something that is not what the original creators intended. Any prompt with a little bit of NSFW is restricted, or things that are not really NSFW get restricted and you can't do anything. So many people are coming up with creative prompts to trick the AI.
@@GuyReactsChannelTouch grass.
The same applies to politicians.
@@alexanderg1935why are you booing him? Hes right
Gorgeously animated. The robots voice was so sinister yet soothing.
Profoundly sad and mesmerizing at the same time. Just wow.
This is so mind blowingly good! The last scene was horrible, I can’t imagine an existence like that.
Why this existence have a mission and mission is his life.
He had asked to be put upon earth, and he got that wish, who knows just how many of him there are throughout the galaxy on different planets he visited, and had a similar thought as going back to earth, who knows just how very many versions of him have killed themselves, truly, a horrific thing to witness much less experience, but in the end, that itteration of him always ends up where he believes he can be happy, question is, is he truely happy there?
@@bibby659 unlikely, since happiness isn't a constant state. he will feel joy now, but who knows after it
can't imagine? you just did. it's an uncomfortable precipice .
Wheres the spoiler alert
That’s what an emergency off switch is for
And why dr.doofensmertz is the best scientist
Had he named this machine "the planet finderinator" then the robot would've found the sun habitable.
@@verryberryman7655
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@@majinvegeta3284 he's a semi aquatic egg laying mammal of action!
sacrament of death
Somebody messed up the programming 😄 I absolutely loved this one
Isaac did! 😁
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@@nosleepsmeep8058 no U
@Alteori I'm surprised to see you in this comment thread. At least I know why it was recommended to me 😂
@@nosleepsmeep8058 I agree
Why didnt he just say, "this ship is harming me. The confinement is making me depressed, the planet would heal me" the robot seems capable of negotiating
2:06 the robot just plain ignored him
He knew the robot did not understand mental health. That's why he just made one small comment about it.
Catch 22...😕
We actually don't know what the robot is capable of. From what we saw, it is just blindly following orders. It can't think for itself, it will always just follow the orders.
I think the robot would ignore him because it does not register feelings, only physical health
Man wallace really lost it when grommit died.
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This is something I could easily see on the Twilight Zone or Black Mirror, just an absolutely amazing story with that overwhelming sense of dread and doom.
I'm in love with you
@@donkeyhobo34 what
@@dr.nostalgia526 what
@@donkeyhobo34 idk dude you just randomly professed love
@@dr.nostalgia526 she's my wife
Pretty rookie programming mistake. You should never set parameters to a specific value, but rather a condition is met when it falls within a certain range. If you build a thermostat, for instance, that turns on heating or cooling when the temperature is below or above _exactly_ 20 degrees, you end up wildly alternating between the heating and the cooling. You set it so the cooling turns on when it is a couple of degrees above 20, and heating when it is a couple of degrees below. Thus you have a stable system.
dude your anonymous pfp makes this even more of a professional redditor moment
Indeed. I love to think about all the flaws and paradoxes these laws of robotics create. I love the fact that this book (the book that "made" these laws of robotics, I robot by Isaac Asimov, definitely worth the read, I can't recommend it enough) was published in 1950, it's a totally different idea of technology and future than what we have now, a much more mysterious and ominous one, idealized by people that had little to no idea about how computers actually work. Like, the whole idea of this artificial intelligence is so ominous and different than what we know today, because it was created in a different setting.
I don't know, all of this is really cool to me, just that lol
@@wobbuchu9019 man this is a redditor convention here
I agree, i was thinking the same thing as i watched. And unfortunate hell-making mistake in this case. Ik the story is not about this lol but i am curious what the thought process was when he was creating the robot/ship system. Why would he think having such specific parameters and having no failsafe would be okay. Yes the universe is infinitely expanding (and thus perhaps in a few billion more iterations there can be a planet to fit the parameters). But it's just silly to make such rigid values, especially when i mean clearly humans have capabilities to survive a range of atmospheric differences (I'm thinking even just sea level to high altitudes).
Additionally Im curious as to why he failed to consider mental health as an aspect. I viewed it as a commentary (unintentionally or not) at how humans often disregard mental health when considering the overall health of a person, and clearly this results in severe long term consequences
Eeyyep. A fatal flaw :P
Clark solved that problem elegantly. HAL, who was also a very, very polite abuser, couldn't justify deferring to the safety of the humans in its care because it couldn't resolve the conflicting orders he was given.
Ok, that ending is DARK. He comes down to Earth, only to find that the last group remaining are all replicas of him, and then, his restored body leaves Earth, indicating that he had the same idea, and that they did the same journey over, and over, and over. Yikes
And actually, since those past versions of him, and the recent one are all of his old sickly self, that must really mean his original self HAD died at that old age; and all the replicas are of him how he looked as/after he passed away! Made by the robot, for some reason.
@@unripetheberrby6283 🙂 nice
that's what happens when you forgot the exit condition to a loop xD
Yeah and why was one of them wearing a woman's wig and a dress?
@@blazeaglory watch the smurfs and find out
The lifeboat has become a prison and the lifeguard a warden.
@ DeputyCartman
Exactly. He himself created the robot and his search for the perfect habitat. He's become a prisoner of his device. 😲
@@geoben1810 Why would a scientist create a robot that had final say over him? Shouldn't there have been a way for him to override the robot?
@@giovanna722
All it would need is logical conclusion. If the creator never gave it an absolute to obey, but rather to find, it would logically override the creator's wishes unless it coincided with it's programmed logic.
Logic: Find ideal location. If True: Accept. If False: Deny.
Creator issues command to a non-ideal planet: False.
@@giovanna722 The fault is in the creator, not the creation
Beaches have lifeguards, lifeboats are those things on the side of a ship. 🧐
This feels like those dreams you have after a night and day of staying awake
It can't be explained,the feeling,just can be related to some words:
Big,too much,late,can't,endless,..
those dreams hit different fr
my bro what sort of dreams you having
@@arthurfrost9004he just told you😂....2 years ago 🤣
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ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT ! So rare to find an opening, a story with imaginative artistry AND an ending ! I have watched hundreds of these and this one is maybe the best.
This film mirrors how humans never learn from history, but keep repeating it...very well done, but gives one a feeling of doom.
Subtract the in from infinite and repetition comes to an end.
No, it is about the orders being followed. The prime order is to preserve his live, above ALL others. This causes the robot to disobey an order that risks his life, even just a little. There can never be zero risk so the robot must guard him forever. Even following his order (to release him) the robot STILL keeps him alive above all else. Addressing laws 1 and 2.
@@nexusdrop7863 yes..I get that..my point is how the man instinctively, keeps repeating the same pattern. The robot is doing what he was designed to do perfectly, it's the human that appears flawed.
@@erikafreebird6449 I can agree to that.
there is no history to learn from though? the whole point is that he thinks its all just starting everytime, if anything this is more so detwrminism since he keeps doing the same thing
This is terrifying to be trapped with that robot for eternity
But knowing that’s the only thing you’ll have left
A calm fear. A freezing phobia. The realization that it won't end.
@@lukedykes2929 unlike your friendship with any girl
@@Evanw10282 why can’t you just be friends as if that’s settling down? Relationship isn’t always the next step and friendship can be important to. Why is that different for men than women?
@@Pandora234able sorry the comment was extremely immature of me to say and completely unnecessary
Good story, very good realisation. I was waiting for the human to create a task for the robot to give him a logic idea to let him go back to earth. Humans do not just need suitable conditions to survive phsically (Water, food, home, climate conditions) but also mental (Acceptance, a feeling to be needed by others, love). A spacecraft with a robot cannot fullfill these requirements.
Exactly
The "man" does say that to the robot. At one point he states that there is more to health than just the physical.
Should have the robot create a Cherry 2000.
Mental health is only relevant to survival at a certain point. The robot has ensured that mental health will never endanger the survival of the human.
@@ReasonMakes Idk about that. The man did shoot himself. What's the point of survival in such a situation?
I really liked the space "ship" vehicle. It traveled in such a unique way, covering distance and time in a much more unconventional way than most movies depict. A chilling film that was very well done.
This is a really good example of a paperclip maximiser type robot.
Functions exactly how it was designed, just designed slightly wrong with unforeseen consequences
Solution: keep him in mashine body forever, and let him visit some planets in that way. His real body will meanwhile be perfectly safe.
I don’t think he actually has a “real body,” at least anymore. This entire run of finding an alternative has been done again and again for the benefit of the robot. It’s questionable if this is anything remotely like what the man was, as the robot had so many copies of him stored. The real curiosity is what will happen if enough android clones of him gather. Far more hardy than a human body, what civilization could grow from these new “individuals” if they are able to grow at all. They are creations of the robot, whom exists forever in an unending cycle of its own design.
considering he couldnt tell the difference that he was in a robot body, i'd say this is a good tradeoff!
All the machine men can work together and engineer a way to save himself. It would be very difficult to outsmart the robot or damage it or the ship, but maybe it could be done.
@@solei5678 The robot CAN NOT do it for it's own benefit. The 3rd law is it must protect itself unless it conflicts with the 1st or 2nd law.
1st law is it can not harm, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm.
2nd law is it must follow orders unless it conflicts with 1st law.
The robot could be ordered to blow itself up, if it would insure he lives. Problem is the robot knows it can keep him alive and anything else is a risk. Risk close to zero but never as close to zero of a risk as in the care of the robot.
There is only selfless devotion and genuine concern for him. That is the darkest part.
@@nexusdrop7863 Indeed so and this is what driving this man insane. He didn't thought deeply when he asked to be sent to another planet similar to Earth, without thinking of even the slight probability of even finding an exact replica of it that the robot has come to the conclusion decided to find. In its own way, this is both hell for them, but one is merely following orders and doing it's duty while the other is suffering endlessly for his desire. And it's been 50-60 something planets so far, what then after a hundred or more?
This is really good. My personal take about the narrative is that humans always have a discontentment with our living conditions/environment, and that we tend to have a desire to make every other human just like us... but then we find out these ideals are actually uncanny. Sometimes instead of looking for the next best thing, we should take a good long look at what is already in our grasp. And the fact that humans are diverse makes interaction, socialization, and life worth having.
I have watched this several times now. Nearly every four months or six, I come to rewatch it. These are the kind of themes I want my sci-do movies to explore. Themes of human consciousness and existence.
So, perfectly executed!
I know right! Sci-fi is wonderful to explore the concepts of human consciousness and what do they do, as technology gets better and better to the point humans have more time to wonder about consciousness, is it worth to extend it, can it be transferred, and even if it seems successful- is it truly?
If it was me, I'd ask the robot to make me a body capable of surviving on one of the planets. But still, overall, amazing story, loved the concept.
Aye, actually that's pretty good.
But the ship would still be the most habitable place in the whole galaxy
and that man could probably survive in space due to his mechanical body, but the point is to find the best place for the biological body
@@dazeyndrowsy Look at that thing, that poor man left all his biological aspects. It's like the ship of theseus. Is it even a living being?
@@el2746
His biological body is still on the ship, probably in cryostasis
The versions we see are artificial constructs, but his actual body *is* on the ship
how distressing it must be for him to discover he has already done this a thousand different times
you mean 6 times. :)))
@@dncviorel I suppose so, yeah.
I don't understand why his previous iterations didn't do ... apparently ANYTHING. With all that time they could have beautified earth, altered their robot forms, possibly cloned humans from corpses or something. Come up with a way to thwart the robot when it returns. SOMETHING. I mean, "all habitable planets in the galaxy" it's a few weeks trip. Did they just STAND AROUND whining for possibly 1,000s of years?
@@jamess7263 or maybe the area in the desert isnt fit to build their new society but the robot always drops off at the same spot so they went to the drop off to gather their new clone
Only 6 but probably over thousands of years
Okay did anyone else think that when the robot had the gun, he was going to either shoot the man or itself?
I did at first until he replaced the bullet and I realised he was setting things up to rerun everything one more time.
@@PhilJonesIII Checking all the planets again, they may have improved in the eons? And the human wakes up with no knowledge of the intervening test cycles? Or, sadly, no planet will ever be "perfect."
@@waggoneer Not if the man was replaced by my ex-wife. Nothing could be perfect in her eyes.
I thought the robot was going to shoot them both..
Ending the man's miserable life and ending his protocol for not being able to fulfill his duty as a protective robot.
@@PhilJonesIII So the robot is your exwife. Lol.
"they look like you" was a lot more literal than expected
Notice how when he asks if they're human, the robot doesn't answer.
The animation alone was mesmerizing. The story and meaning behind it gripped me the most though. I think that since the bodies are all linked in some way shape or form. He may have been seeing through the eyes of the ones on earth rather than having dreams.
Points out a minor flaw in Asimov's 3 laws.
There should be 4 laws and the first should be : A robot may not interfere with a human who wishes to bring harm to themselves.
That would mean a robot could not prevent you committing suicide or doing something dangerous if it was your own choice to do it.
That would conflict with rule 1
Law 4: "A robot shall suspend laws 1, 2 and 3 for the sole purpose of following the orders of humans who explicitly knowingly and willingly wish to risk or cause harm to only themselves."
He might not even be human anymore... Maybe just that his mind data is stored in some Crypt and downloaded into new bodies
@@dryoldcrabman6890 That would BE rule number 1. The current rule number 1 would then be rule number 2 and cannot conflict with rule number one.
That allows a robot to prevent human coming to harm, but not if they are intentionally comitting suicide.
The entire point of Asimov's laws is their flaws, that's what the story was about
you know it's a serious film about robots when it starts with the 3 laws
Very well animated but the story was also executed so well. The way the robot reloads the gun and resets the grid of planets was excellent foreshadowing of the twist at the end. Really loved the whole thing, including the philosophy. Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it.
Moral of the story - There is no ideal world or utopia , stay happy where you are and make it a happy place.
Mukesh Panicker Yes, I agree! There's an old saying about the grass always being greener on the other side of the fence.. The description mentions that the earth was "in disarray". I'm guessing that's a euphemism.
Agreed
so that means.. stay inside that ship?
@@DBT1007 mind blown!
That’s not a very good moral
This is taking the laws of robotics to a different level...
Many AI "doomsday" scenarios are based on the possibility that robots may use it's basic programming to do something completely unintended.
An example I have often seen is that an AI is programmed to protect humans, but sees humans as the ultimate threat to humans (because of nuclear weapons, climate change etc.) and decides that in order to protect humans it must wipe out humans.
@@jakobkristensensandvik5588 well, humanity is famous for pulling half baked laws and principles out of its ass, so yeah.
@@jakobkristensensandvik5588 Make sense. Matrix also was made to preserve humans without allowing them to harm themselwes anymore. Including a little profit for robots.
@@KrotowX No, the Matrix is more like a prison for the remaining humans - to use their bodies as batteries to fuel the machines. It's not to protect the humans.
Unlike in the scenarios I described, the robots in The Matrix are not following a warped mission to "protect humans". In this universe, humans got scared that the robots were getting too powerful and attacked them. The robots retaliated in self-defense and a global war ensued in which the robots won and enslaved humanity.
Interesting. At first I thought the robot was going to turn out to be 'evil', but it was just following orders. I also like the way the gold circles in the robots headdress are echoed in the visited planet memory board, and the man's eye sockets are echoed in the thruster exhaust outlet. I like how the interdimensional travel was thought of as: the spacehouse creating its own black hole/worm hole and traveling between dimensions with ease. As if once you know where the dimension in space/time is, you can map it and cut the travel time by bending space/time. I like how everything was kind of absurd like a Dali painting, including the man's dreams and the situation itself. Interesting to think of what's become of the man's consciousness. Is it his same consciousness with each new body? Are the hims all him, or are they different hims or part of the same him? So many questions
I feel sorrow for the robot more than i do the man. She knows what is going on and has been doing it for millions of years. She sounds so defeated.
Ah what?! You are weird I mean I kinda get it but still
@@Lumberjack_king very weird my internet friend. Lol
Yeah
I am not sure if the robot feels this way, but I find great sympathy in you empathising with the robot.
the robot placed back the gun meaning that it was ready for another one of him and the hims on the earth were just him following the same path inevitably for the new one to follow?
Exactly
Yes. And it happened many times.
The drive, reason, and explanation of WHY the robot is doing that is the3 laws of robotics:
1st law - a robot can not harm, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm.
2nd law - a robot must follow the orders of a human unless it conflicts with the 1st law.
3rd law - a robot must protect itself unless it conflicts with the 1st or 2nd law.
The robot follows all 3. Just in a very different manner than expected.
@@nexusdrop7863 I have been wondering this, should we call it robot? I'm certain it isn't appropriate to call it as an A.I since it does evolve, but I'm not sure if that is correct.
@@nexusdrop7863 would you call that harmless?
Yep!
From the dialog, we can infer that the robot made the spaceship for the man, and the man told it to perfectly replicate his room as it was back on earth. He also hardcoded the three laws into the robot. The robot is simply following the original instructions, replacing the loaded gun every time, and not allowing the man to come to harm in any way. That also means making sure he doesn't harm himself with the gun, and so the mind of the original man is simply placed into a new body, with the original body being tucked away some place safe. The video is about designing programs or entities meant to protect us, (like for example, a police force) but if that entity is given too much power over our freedoms, and it's not made with considerations to human flaws and psychology, it will trap us in an endless cycle of despair, destruction and horror. It's a very clever metaphor.
Turkish sounds so fricking much like a cool arcane language if you read the texts at the start of the video
You mean the three laws of Isaac Asimov that were translated in turkish?
Yes
Turkish is a beautiful language in its own way. I don't speak a single word of it, but to me it looks and sounds intriguingly complex, sophisticated, strangely wild, often rough, sometimes smooth, very opaque and yet somehow very ... human ... for lack of a better word.
If you listen to some of their traditional music, you'll get an air of "different", and might even like it after a while.
For me, spoken Turkish sounds like a person is failing to decide if they're gonna speak in German, French, English, Russian, Korean or Japanese
@@ynntari2775 it shares many features with those languages
Isn’t that’s us? We keep looking for perfection and become slave of our own thoughts. We don’t like to accept and accommodate but we want perfection from others .
9:35 "Find me some place, Robot!" "that place is here, sir."
its ironic how something that you really wanted the most is also something that you're gonna regret having.
Damn that moved me in a way I did not expect.
A man is trapped on a spaceship after His robot overseer finds every planet unhabittable in lego city!
HEY!
Build an emergency off switch!
Erase the robot memory *and start all over again*
Lol, basically
@RB Kommando dead💀💀
10 minutes ago a masterpiece was posted, this needs an award 🥇
20 minutes*
20 minutes, 5 seconds and 47 milliseconds*
@@OpiumBride you have a point tbh
I feel like this represents life in a way. People always strive to do better in terms of work and as a result end up suffering. The better idea would be to simple be contempt with what you have and learn to accept that nothing is perfect and that's how you'll be the most fulfilled.
Trust me, many of us live in contempt of existence, not because we're in poverty.
whilst i understand the point you are making in the context of the film we just saw, your advice is hardly a tagline for human progress.
I love the architecture, and the robot's design. Beautiful little film, though the story is rather depressing.
In a way, the robot is in it's own escape pod... eternally searching the stars on a pointless quest just to keep itself alive like the humans who built it (a drive which the old man now regrets)
Pretty much. The story is about the robot just as the human. The robot knows that once the human's directive is fulfilled, it will have no other purpose or perhaps it will get a new one from the human, but that new purpose might not be what the robot would like. So it found a loophole, as long as there is a 'human' to serve, it will have a purpose to live.
Just like the human find purpose to live outside the ship, the robot find purpose to serve.
No. The 1st and primary function of the robot is to keep the human alive. Nothing, to include itself, is above that. 3 laws of robotics (text at the beginning) is what occurs. His orders are ignored because it would risk his life. The robot IS searching for a safe place for him, but a sharp rock is a threat.
I dont think the robot has its own sense of self, it doesnt think it just analyzes
@@nexusdrop7863 a robot may not injure a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm. That includes imprisoning them against their will incidentally.
soo.. all those other versions of him never walked around the planet trying to revitalize it? They just stood in one spot for thousands of years?
Wow and this is why humanity died in the first place
How do we know they just aren't aware of how long the robot takes to check the whole galaxy and cycle back to Earth? They probably came back to greet the new guy.
It's sort of reasonable that all of them (or most of them... or some of them, anyway) - stuck together. And that the robot dropped him close to the group on purpose.
yea. what you guys are saying does make sense.
they were busy vibin
What I personally learn from this animation is that the suitable place for us may not necessarily be the place where we belong. Just like Einstein quote " A ship is always safe at the shore but that is not what it is built for ". I love this animation ❤
Yes, beautiful film and great idea.
(PS Not an Einstein quote, attributed to John A. Shedd.)
It also tells us that an adversary doesn't necessarily have to be evil. They can be 100% genuine and well-intentioned, yet still do wrong by you.
This is the most breath-taking Turkish short animation I have even seen so far.~
My first Turkish animation and it's great!!
A fate worse than death stuck in a loop with the same concept of a man saying the way out but still unable to take it because of a virtual tumor forbidding it.
Being stuck inside the house during covid and the outside world is uninhabitable. Feels the same
Time to stop listening to your government.
@@04dram04 I dunno man, every time lockdown is enforced i end up safer at home.
Plus I get to play video games even more.
As an introverted hermit who is currently on disability I do not find this an issue.
Very very true
The robot mentions that his "real body is safe", presumably stored in some form of stasis on the ship itself. So by leaving copies of himself on one planet this could lead to him finding a way to free himself in the long run.
A very, very, very long run indeed but he does have in effect functional immortality so time is something he clearly has as shown by all the other hims that have been on that planet for hundreds if not thousands of years.
I often open a million new tabs of youtube videos that I want to watch later. For the longest time, I kept opening this video in it's own tab, but never watched it. I'm glad I finally did. So hilarious and depressing at the same time... :| :p
Exquisitely executed! There is a subtle enigmatic and bizzare ambience in the movie that reflects the very own nature of existence. I can relate it to our overwhelming desire to satiate our curiosity, given our attempts to experience the better life outside our conscious reality, we tend to neglect the good choices left behind for a perfect preference. In the end, we realize the harsh reality of life, that we miss the old home, the breath of the past, the way things are.
Beyond that, the film portrays a more profound symbolical meaning far too complex. A grotesque distortion of beauty, truth and reality.
I didn't really understand the ending? But it's one AI future. Without emotion our tech products will be inscutable and difficult to predict. Many hells await us, seemingly. We must be aware of what could happen, BUT we're just made of meat..
@@jerbib9598 The ending encapsulates a myriad of interpretations. Likewise, I honestly didn't understand it, I just interpret the lens of the film that angles a simulacrum of reality. Many subjective interpretations could circumscribe this sort of AI, future-humanity conundrum.
@@jerbib9598 Indeed, I agree. We still grasp control over AIs these days but there might come a time where technology rules the world, completely rendering devoid of human control. That will be catastrophic.
@@joebertcantillo6961 trying to sound smart lol
@@taunted11 I don't think that was a "try." He nailed it!
This... I think this is one of the best things that came out of my country.
Imagine being stuck on a spaceship for a practical eternity just because you forgot to put tolerances into the requirements.
This basically combines some of my deepest fears into a great animation and I love it
Incredible short film. 😊👍🏽
HEHE
There's something wrong with this person. Very wrong.
It's nice to see a short animation from a Turkish animator.
I think, it's equally enjoyable after a movie such as this, to read through the comments to get peoples take on the film. It's like going to a movie with a few hundred others than having cocktails/food afterwards and openly discussing it. Very cool. Sometimes I stay for awhile and read through many, sometimes leave early due to other committments. Either way I always enjoy that aspect especially after a well written piece such as this. Once again, thanks Alan, good one. Thanks to the creator(s) as well. My take on this one is simple though I enjoyed everyones perspective. I believe this film encapsulates what it feels like to grow old beyond most years and be left, with yourself. My Grandmother lived to 98. She buried two husbands, countless kids, grandkids and watched all of her friends in life pass on. Though it's natural, part of the human condition to move forward and hang on for another day and innately born into us the journey comes with a price. In the end, we are left, with ourselves.
Wow, how ominous. Was not expecting that ending at all.
I'm in love with you
I love how beautiful the animation, the direction, sound design and voice acting were in this, its absolutely beautiful.
I also love how you kept it just vague and open enough that the audience is left with their own interpretation of events.
My own interpretation is that is an alien robot and a human robot misunderstanding each other.
It may look like a Grimm ending and it is but there’s a light at the end of this tunnel, every time he does this cycle more and more men have on Earth, the bigger the group more they will be able to do to try and repair the Planet so the cycle of life can start over again, like the end of wall-E
How much time could you spend in the company of someone like that?
You forget. He's a mechanical being now. And it's the exact same person with no difference in personality
It's a society of robots. There IS no more "cycle of life"
@@jwadaow i was thinking more in a wall-E type of scenery
@@joaovitorfarinabraga690 He probably lacks the intelligence and knowledge to build a society. And those are perfectly identical clones with the same exact mind. It's very far from being similar to Wall-E.
@@Shendue without a viable biosphere, how would a "society" exist? Humans can't survive on a planet without any other living beings. These are just androids, so why would you expect them to create a civilization? Out of what? With what knowledge? For what purpose?
Half a dozen replicants could terraform the entire earth?
I have no idea what you are meaning.
I'm not sure you understand what is required for human life any more than the robot.
This is the flaw in the idea of human space colonization: humans living in artificial pods on dead planets or moons will cease to be human in any way we would recognize.
The scary part is that they all have to live on earth forever without skipping time
why not just create a planet if you have all that technology?
true
The robot didn't want to - it had subverted Asimov's Laws to suit itself.
The instruction was ‘find’ not ‘build’.
@@oldvlognewtricks 😂😂😂👍👍👍
@Citizen Cyx A robot can understand anything it is programmed to understand. It’s the humans who made it that messed up - garbage in; garbage out.
Right in the lockdown feels!
I was thinking the same.
@Hás Starship7 if you had a robot avatar you would get it to do the shopping its damn self
Except there's at least seven billion of us and there's little less than a few bionic bodies
Ouch
I loved how in the credits the name of the old man is "Adam/Man". Very nice.