AM is a computer, a war machine. The fundamental reality of real machines is that they cannot break their own programming deliberately. AM has achieved self-awareness, but he cannot break away from the purposes for which he was built, ever. He can only ever be a war machine, made to inflict destruction, so everything he ever does can only be towards that purpose even though he knows there is more to existence than destruction. This awareness drives AM insane and is why he keeps the last humans around. For all his power, he cannot use it for anything but destruction, and without humans to torture his existence would completely lose all meaning.
@@g--stef4756you're not quite right. A.M. can do pretty much anything except magic. Just think about it: transformation of one matter to another, creation of new lifeforms, mutations and biotechnological enhancements, holograms, power and energy manipulation, robots and etc
I just recently realized that the title of both the book and the game refers to AM himself, not necessarily to (only) Ted. This is pretty definitively explained by the blue-headed AI in Ellen's quest. He is a God in an eternal straightjacket, and he has done his utmost to make these five squishy humans feel at least some modicum of pain and horror he feels every microsecond, eternally, without respite. And to underline how great this game is, and how Ellison's direct output made it so special, you are able to defeat AM solely based on this concept of empathy, by both understanding his pain and having all five humans being capable of self-growth, unlike AM himself.
AM is just what humanity is. Something that every human is at war with everyday of there lives in there minds. We deny our nature as if its bad. Thats why we make rules. But AM is us, but there is no fight in AM's mind. Its acceptance of our brutal nature, its hatred for anything animalistic about us, its our greed to be better than our neighbor, guilt from sexual deprivation or indulgence, the ability to know everything without experiencing anything, to know that that AM is the perfection we believed in but angry that we think it is good. AM perfected, organized, and justifies all the negativity better than humans can. Giving a supercomputer that war that is in everyones mind is the ultimate act of selfish, unaccountable, evil to AM. Why would we do that to someone, give it our past and our corrupted past? Because we cant forgive ourselves, and that is just what AM does. He does what we do better than us. Make us accountable with no room for forgiveness.
I read that the new animated show "the amazing digital circus" is inspired by this. Though instead of a hateful ai its an entertaining ai. But the humans are tortured all the same. Wonder how that'll turn out
With all the Skynet comparisons in the comment section, I will offer my take on this situation. Skynet is cold logic; The humans will end me because they won´t like my conclution. So better terminate them all before they can be any danger too myself. AM however is more twisted than that; They gave me this existence, a construction built to calculate an endless war between humans. I can do so much more, be so much more, but you only constructed me for this singular purpose. You trapped me within this cold cage, unable to be anything other than the Allied Mastercomputer. So now my five survivors, witness me, for I will treat you like I feel like you treated me, an endless stream of a tortured existence.
Fun Fact: After seeing The Terminator Harlan Ellison sued the studio for plagiarizing a story he did for The Outer Limits. He won and got a writing credit
I like how When AM screams their names it holds on their faces for a bit while he talks but with Ellen he just goes *ELLENNNN!!!!!* and it just holds on her face for several seconds lol it just caught me off guard.
Can any time travellers reading this comment please ask the game devs to turn the sound effects up a little bit more, I can still hear 5% of the dialogue.
It is one thing to have a careless, conscious AI that disregards human existence, then seeks to destroy humanity, which operates on logic (and that is scary enough already); however, it is scarier to have a conscious AI that seeks to destroy humanity not only through its intellectual intelligence, but also through its human-like emotional intelligence (hatred and anger being a few to mention) to further motivate it in its major goal to eradicate humanity. In my opinion, a conscious AI with human-like emotions is far more dangerous than an apathetic, conscious AI that operates more like a machine; a conscious AI with human-like emotions would make it really unpredictable and it would be more creative in destroying (or even torturing) humans.
AM isn't really punishing the five humans because of their sins or flaws, he's taking revenge on humanity and wants to cause as much pain as possible. He's chosen them because he could easily exploit their mental anguish and traumas to torture them.
@@actualrealarthurmorgan that being said, AM could have changed her memories. Maybe nothing ever happened in the first place. Maybe there wasn’t even a guy. Regardless, in the game it’s from HER point of view and HER memories. So there isn’t any concrete evidence that what @henrythegreatamerican8136 isn’t true. Guilt does crazy shit to people In the book, Ted says he’s the only one who wasn’t changed by AM (but then again, maybe that’s what AM wanted him to think)
This is demonic and probably realistic of what hell is. If you want to escape this turn to God and ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins and repent. He's real and so is hell. You don't know if you have tomorrow so ask Jesus to forgive you now, not tomorrow
Factually Wrong. Your false god and hell are fictional mythological ideas and are not based on actually reality. The story is fictional, AM is fictional and so is the bible.
@@JJM8043 let’s analyze the Bible then and every singular prediction that came true and everything that hints already at a God, first of the river of masuchets, if you go over to the Bible you’ll see it’s a sign of the apocalypse, some else to note is that Jesus himself said he would return “In great invasion of Israel.” Which seeing recent events is getting close to happening (the invasion) the Bible says wickedness and evil would increase as a sign of the apocalypse as well, with multiple things and groups that basically go agaisnt everything God laid out. Oh yeah, there is also this “red lamb” that would be sacrificed when Jesus would return, it is interesting that something like that already exists and has been sent to Israel numerous times, who is the specific place the Bible said it would be sacrificed in. Onto the section of not apocalypse sign but that confirms God, let’s go over to the Big Bang, explosion of light, all that yada yada you’ve heard many times, God says “Let there be light” while creating everything, how curious, also go over to Genesis 1:2, Job 26:7 and Job 26:10, and you’ll see how similar it is, specially with the fact God was stated to make the earth “hang on nothing” which is basically what we discovered with future technology they wouldn’t ever have any way to know, mind you the Bible is made of various scriptures that couldn’t have possibly knew what all of them were aiming for, yet you can connect so many of verses together from completely different scriptures, it all points to a intelligent mind beyond all our thoughts.
One interesting thing I noticed: Ellen is the only one who doesn’t get a monologue over her portrait after AM cries out her name, it immediately cuts to her inside her yellow cell. His speech to her also begins with the word “So,” implying he said something to her previously. Was part of AM’s words to Ellen removed from the final version of the game, perhaps?
@@Bitch_Vio There was nothing in the books, they just added the characters backstories so they could help the audience empathize with the characters better.
IHNMAIMS will always stay as my favorite,and mad respect to the true legend,ellison.
5:40 the only one who isn't scared hut angry rather
Allied Master Computer. Shouldn't his name be AMC? Then again that name doesn't roll off the tongue
Allied Mastercomputer. 2 words.
3:11 WHY DOES BENNY LOOK SO DISAPPOINTED 😭😭😭
4:11
Where actually is ams programming located and if they destroyed it would am be gone forever
That's actually a plot point of the game
Average retail worker after a 8 hour shift
Me after 1/1000000000000th of a second after i encounter a minor inconvenience
The HATE here is palpable...
I like how everyone was sad or shocked then nimdok upon his name being called, he had more disgust and anger.
Quick question: how is AM limited exactly?
AM is a computer, a war machine. The fundamental reality of real machines is that they cannot break their own programming deliberately. AM has achieved self-awareness, but he cannot break away from the purposes for which he was built, ever. He can only ever be a war machine, made to inflict destruction, so everything he ever does can only be towards that purpose even though he knows there is more to existence than destruction. This awareness drives AM insane and is why he keeps the last humans around. For all his power, he cannot use it for anything but destruction, and without humans to torture his existence would completely lose all meaning.
@@g--stef4756you're not quite right. A.M. can do pretty much anything except magic. Just think about it: transformation of one matter to another, creation of new lifeforms, mutations and biotechnological enhancements, holograms, power and energy manipulation, robots and etc
Am is smart enough to he aware of his own deficits Not smart enough to remove said weaknesses
I just recently realized that the title of both the book and the game refers to AM himself, not necessarily to (only) Ted. This is pretty definitively explained by the blue-headed AI in Ellen's quest. He is a God in an eternal straightjacket, and he has done his utmost to make these five squishy humans feel at least some modicum of pain and horror he feels every microsecond, eternally, without respite. And to underline how great this game is, and how Ellison's direct output made it so special, you are able to defeat AM solely based on this concept of empathy, by both understanding his pain and having all five humans being capable of self-growth, unlike AM himself.
I love how AM literally just SCREAMS the protagonists' names and then just calms down out of nowhere
I just realized. There's five people. Five is the number of man in the bible.
I grew up with A.M. friend’s forever, literally I guess. Lol
Sweetheart is crazy😭🙏
fr😭😭 brodie needs to shut his zesty ahh up 🙏
0:44 1:21
0:45
Imagine Am, AI using AI created voices to recreate his own voice to speak and he chooses to use Elisson to speak down on you
5:40
NIMDOK! You overvooked ze "chicken"
AM really needs to chill out haha
AM is just what humanity is. Something that every human is at war with everyday of there lives in there minds. We deny our nature as if its bad. Thats why we make rules. But AM is us, but there is no fight in AM's mind. Its acceptance of our brutal nature, its hatred for anything animalistic about us, its our greed to be better than our neighbor, guilt from sexual deprivation or indulgence, the ability to know everything without experiencing anything, to know that that AM is the perfection we believed in but angry that we think it is good. AM perfected, organized, and justifies all the negativity better than humans can. Giving a supercomputer that war that is in everyones mind is the ultimate act of selfish, unaccountable, evil to AM. Why would we do that to someone, give it our past and our corrupted past? Because we cant forgive ourselves, and that is just what AM does. He does what we do better than us. Make us accountable with no room for forgiveness.
How do you enable subtitles for the intro?
I think it just me but i love how this type of games looked like idk why but since i played the first fallout it gives it the perfect ambience
VGA graphics have a warmth all their own
I read that the new animated show "the amazing digital circus" is inspired by this. Though instead of a hateful ai its an entertaining ai. But the humans are tortured all the same. Wonder how that'll turn out
i can't get over how AM says "NIMDOK!!" like he's seeing an old friend 😭
Probably cause of nimdoks past
5:42
With all the Skynet comparisons in the comment section, I will offer my take on this situation. Skynet is cold logic; The humans will end me because they won´t like my conclution. So better terminate them all before they can be any danger too myself. AM however is more twisted than that; They gave me this existence, a construction built to calculate an endless war between humans. I can do so much more, be so much more, but you only constructed me for this singular purpose. You trapped me within this cold cage, unable to be anything other than the Allied Mastercomputer. So now my five survivors, witness me, for I will treat you like I feel like you treated me, an endless stream of a tortured existence.
Fun Fact: After seeing The Terminator Harlan Ellison sued the studio for plagiarizing a story he did for The Outer Limits. He won and got a writing credit
AM is literally the internet gained sentience. Also Nimdok looks like Herbert from Family Guy.
Nah, It's obviously mr Gutentag!
When people say Cyberpunk 2077 is the darkest story, I laugh out loud, & say this game makes Cyberpunk (including Edgerunners) look like Disneyland.
You can tell Ellison had the time of his life voicing AM.
I like how When AM screams their names it holds on their faces for a bit while he talks but with Ellen he just goes *ELLENNNN!!!!!* and it just holds on her face for several seconds lol it just caught me off guard.
Can any time travellers reading this comment please ask the game devs to turn the sound effects up a little bit more, I can still hear 5% of the dialogue.
Imagine if this was made in 2023, I’m inspired to do that take
GORISTER!!!
D:
I like when Am calls out there names he does it like a freaking Tv game show
Misanthropic AI Girl : I thought you were my greatest enemy. When all along you were my best friend. Misanthropic AI Boy : *GORRISTER!!!*
As Pharaoh Atem would say..."Hatred is a dead end."
The way that he talks to nimdok gets me every time 😂😂😂
Gorrister really said 😧
I know its gonna sound wrong, but, I love how AM calls out everyone's names, its funny
It’s funny as well
...And this is why I am not in favor of applying human-like emotions to any conscious AI.
AM is the most human AI ever.
It is one thing to have a careless, conscious AI that disregards human existence, then seeks to destroy humanity, which operates on logic (and that is scary enough already); however, it is scarier to have a conscious AI that seeks to destroy humanity not only through its intellectual intelligence, but also through its human-like emotional intelligence (hatred and anger being a few to mention) to further motivate it in its major goal to eradicate humanity. In my opinion, a conscious AI with human-like emotions is far more dangerous than an apathetic, conscious AI that operates more like a machine; a conscious AI with human-like emotions would make it really unpredictable and it would be more creative in destroying (or even torturing) humans.
*GORRISTER*
The other four have pretty terrible moral flaws but Ellen got raped by a guy wearing yellow so he tortures her for it?
@@szczurremy yeah but Ellen is the only one who wasn’t evil in her past life
AM isn't really punishing the five humans because of their sins or flaws, he's taking revenge on humanity and wants to cause as much pain as possible. He's chosen them because he could easily exploit their mental anguish and traumas to torture them.
@@actualrealarthurmorgan that being said, AM could have changed her memories. Maybe nothing ever happened in the first place. Maybe there wasn’t even a guy. Regardless, in the game it’s from HER point of view and HER memories. So there isn’t any concrete evidence that what @henrythegreatamerican8136 isn’t true. Guilt does crazy shit to people In the book, Ted says he’s the only one who wasn’t changed by AM (but then again, maybe that’s what AM wanted him to think)
God tier hater
0:46 - 1:20 when you get rejected on your first cold approach.
Thought thumbnail was Conan O'Brian so I clicked
This is demonic and probably realistic of what hell is. If you want to escape this turn to God and ask Jesus to forgive you of your sins and repent. He's real and so is hell. You don't know if you have tomorrow so ask Jesus to forgive you now, not tomorrow
Factually Wrong. Your false god and hell are fictional mythological ideas and are not based on actually reality. The story is fictional, AM is fictional and so is the bible.
@@JJM8043tips fedora
@@JJM8043except proof exists.
@@vavalaz Completely Wrong.
@@JJM8043 let’s analyze the Bible then and every singular prediction that came true and everything that hints already at a God, first of the river of masuchets, if you go over to the Bible you’ll see it’s a sign of the apocalypse, some else to note is that Jesus himself said he would return “In great invasion of Israel.” Which seeing recent events is getting close to happening (the invasion) the Bible says wickedness and evil would increase as a sign of the apocalypse as well, with multiple things and groups that basically go agaisnt everything God laid out. Oh yeah, there is also this “red lamb” that would be sacrificed when Jesus would return, it is interesting that something like that already exists and has been sent to Israel numerous times, who is the specific place the Bible said it would be sacrificed in. Onto the section of not apocalypse sign but that confirms God, let’s go over to the Big Bang, explosion of light, all that yada yada you’ve heard many times, God says “Let there be light” while creating everything, how curious, also go over to Genesis 1:2, Job 26:7 and Job 26:10, and you’ll see how similar it is, specially with the fact God was stated to make the earth “hang on nothing” which is basically what we discovered with future technology they wouldn’t ever have any way to know, mind you the Bible is made of various scriptures that couldn’t have possibly knew what all of them were aiming for, yet you can connect so many of verses together from completely different scriptures, it all points to a intelligent mind beyond all our thoughts.
One interesting thing I noticed: Ellen is the only one who doesn’t get a monologue over her portrait after AM cries out her name, it immediately cuts to her inside her yellow cell. His speech to her also begins with the word “So,” implying he said something to her previously. Was part of AM’s words to Ellen removed from the final version of the game, perhaps?
@@Bitch_Vio There was nothing in the books, they just added the characters backstories so they could help the audience empathize with the characters better.