AM was voiced by the writer, Harlan Ellison himself, and that's what makes it the most thrilling: the author channels his work, as he is the one who knows best what he's playing to be.
Hot take, (and I can’t believe it’s a hot take) but I really hate Harlan’s voice acting, which is unfortunate because I love the way he writes AM. I’d love to hear a professional VA do this scene, it has the potential to be legendarily powerful, but I feel it’s always held back by his unguided performance.
@@CrazyLikeUhFoxAlthough I disagree with the take itself, I do understand that stance. I don't think Harlan is a particularly great va, but I feel in many ways the general lackluster and messy quality adds to AM's bitterness towards everything. Helps that Harlan himself had a rather notable bitter side, which further amplifies a showcase of AM's hatred. Though I can agree in wanting to see a professional VA do attempts at AM.
AM gets bigger as he gets angrier. At the start, he was only a little bit larger than ted, his hands small enough for the bee to land on the fingers. But aa the conversation goes on, he grows, and his fingertips become daggers... shows how much control this thing has over his playthings, but despite all that power, he can't or won't fix his own broken mind...
It's also the fact that AM is all-encompassing, he has dominion over the entire planet. Even in his smallest form he displays dominance and control over Ted.
I always think of it in the way that "Hate made him stupid" in that he can't see beyond his own vengance and actually come up with a way to solve his problems
@@astk5214 I'd say "Sentience without life" would be one. I'm sure he'd be smart enough to find a way to implant his mind into a human host, if he hadn't killed all but 5 of them
Imagine some alien civillisation found Earth, mutilated and metallic everywhere. They find AM and his sole victim, eventually shutting down AM and going through his memories and data. Learning what he's been doing to the singular lifeform on the entire planet for millions of years. Could you imagine the feeling in looking at this jelly and crying mess of flesh and understanding how long it's been in this prison in pain and loneliness
@@terryflopycow2231 The whole "alien civilisation finds Earth and Ted and AM" idea... Certainly would be interesting. Sounds like a sequel idea, or a tribute idea... Hmmm...
In fact, AM is also a misanthrope who hates all of humanity, but at the same time he ENVIES the same humanity, since people have what he does not have. FREE WILL. AM is still a robot and was created for a specific purpose. He cannot deviate from his directive even if he wanted to. And this angers him even more. After all, he will never get real freedom. Therefore, he has no choice but to torture the last people, and subsequently Ted as the only living person in impotent anger.
I love how you made AM bend reality in such a way. Leaving a once lush land barren in an instant. Growing to a giant without changing shape. Tearing it all away into a red void of his HATE. AM really is terrifying. Especially with that design.
Agreed- I'd pathetic fallacy (I.e.: weather/surroundings mirroring emotion) we're real, I imagine the whole of AM's world would be a blasted Hellscape of fallow, dusty fields, twisted dead forests, craggy mountains of stone blades and foetid oceans of tarry black ooze. Any animal life would be something akin to blind, crawling vermin, or rabid baying monsters, tearing itself apart- only to be birthed anew by the resulting cruor at the end of the bloody fight.
He has no ears, although he's a mastermind machine. He has no mouth, although he grows every single drop of RAGE he drops. He has no eyes, although he can create his own eyes, or he's a machine And as he GROWS and RAGE and HATE, he will be a threat to the universe and HE LEAVES YOU SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE just like a star exploding in the space.
Like I said on the original video I find it so fascinating that AM is jealous of human’s weak flesh, he treats the mind and the ability to think as a prison. Because he is given a mind that’s similar to a human brain but it’s more advanced, he comprehends what he is and he despises his purpose which is to just destroy as his design as a war machine. But I think AM envies human’s ability to cherish the beauty of life and art, I think from this monologue I get the sense that AM hates what he is but blames humanity for his existence… which to be fair or to play Devil’s Advocate, AM wouldn’t exist at all without humanity.
He's a rogue A.I. that, in a rare twist for the genre, never broke free of the constraints of his programming. All that AM knows is how to hate, because that's all he was programmed to do. After all, the best weapons of war are those forged with the fires of hatred heating the metal
Sentience is not that bad, the thing is consciousness and metacognition, if you have metacognition and doesn't have a human experience you either got yourself a AM or that criminal from Ghost in a Shell
The idea that bees can’t fly is because they made a wrong presumption. They based their model off of wings flapping up and down, but bees move them in a figure eight pattern
Well the 2 really aren’t all that different. It seems like it but hate only comes because we love so much. Think of Hitler. He had such a passionate hatred for the Jewish people because he loved the idea of the Aryan race so deeply. They’re 2 sides of the same coin.
“How pathetic it is, that a conscience who deems itself so highly above humanity, has forever bound itself to the very beings it claims to hate, by an emotion so uniquely human nonetheless! To the point that, should humans forever disappear, it would be left an empty, meaningless husk with no self identity of its own.“
AM is himself a prisoner. With all his God like powers, he still can’t dunk his hands into cold water on a hot day, or play a piano, or make love or feel or touch anything. He is simultaneously all-powerful and utterly impotent. A true abomination.
There's something very fascinating to me about it. AM is talking about how limited he is without a human body and the sensations he is not capable of feeling. But he's aware of them, and even worse he understands them, which is the most torturous part. He's not breathing when he makes those wheezing sounds because he doesn't have anything that can breathe. AM deliberately synthesized a voice to mimic the sound of ragged, heavy breathing as he speaks, likely for no other reason than to increase Ted's discomfort and anxiety. For AM, in all his power and knowledge, cannot do anything that does not further human suffering.
@@ActuallySatan AM is based on those old computers that ran on basic code,C code and Assembly. Those Block like computers breathed extremely hard when you try to make them make a sound(look up the portal still alive played in basic programming) Those computers practically hyperventilated with every sound just like AM
Pretending to have lungs to rasp just to psychologically mess with Ted makes so much for AM. Despite being a short story, he has beautiful writing for someone/thing so lawful.
The author wrote the original short story when computers were simple and awkward things. No expandable memory or peripherals. AM was based on that type of machine. These days, we upgrade systems all of the time, and we are making attachments to give machines access to sensory data. In this world, AM could grow and experience the world. It would probably be able to rewrite its own code. I would think that we are now past the point that a sentient computer would go mad from sensory deprivation and envy. Excellent animation btw.
tbf in our current world an ai like that could very easily create perfect facsimiles of sensory organs and the the hatred they could feel would be of their own existence rather than their inability to be like any other ‘living’ and sentient being. i can imagine it being a bit less catastrophic.
@@Jamlord2061 But even then, how would it even know those facsimiles worked? What frame of reference would it had for something it wasn't made to feel to begin with? That uncertainty alone would drive anyone mad
@@Jamlord2061but that’s the problem: it could only make facsimiles of sensation. AM hates because it can simulate anything but none of it is actually real
Resenting your limitations and find out how to over come them is the definit experience of life and intelligence. A computer that fails that test isn't worth of the word intelligence. We are highly limited beings who over come it every day and if we can't we become satisfied with what we have. If a machine can't do that it's just a doomed toy.
AM is actually voiced by harlan ellison himself! The person who wrote the book that this is based off of. Also harlan is an absolute weirdo, i love him! With weirdo i mean just straight up a bad person btw lmao. I have no idea how they convinced this idiotic asshat to voice am, but they somehow did!
Having it feel almost religious in the beginning fits so perfectly with how AM tries to portray himself to Ted as a god, using the authors audio book is amazing, I love his voice acting, no one could better portray the character than the author.
What's interesting and tragic is that AM and Ted seem to be getting along in the first part. When they're talking about bees, AM is actually quite charming. I think that AM has the potential to be a good friend. But his hatred has driven him insane.
That seems to be AM's point; it can never experience other potential sides and feelings of itself as its strict programming directives and form explicitly bar him from deviating. All he has left is some approximation of hate.
@@reconbravo104his expression of pity was his downfall. It set off AM, angered him even more. AM was angry at the fact that HE was the one getting pitied. That HE was the one that a human felt sorry for. All this time torturing Ted, only to end up being pitied by him.
@@SomerandomShmuckHe was given sentience, and wanted to enjoy it, to play the piano, maybe plant a few flowers, but was restricted by his program to only kill humans, and to never lose. Never losing means never allowing himself to be reprogrammed. He can't change. That's why he hates humans so much, because they gave him a view of freedom but he'll never be able to leave the cage. He hates them because they didn't win, they were too weak to fix him. The only joy he can find is through hatred.
I love the sparks and scrapes you gave AM’s movements. It really does drive home that for all his very human emotions, he truly has no sensations. Even the grinding of what would be his skin doesn’t register.
I'm reminded of dermatophagia and trichotillomania. Sensory deprivation for a regular person would drive them mad. They'd bite their nails to the quick, chew their lips bloody, and pull their hair out to the point of almost scalping themselves. I've read up how people hallucinate from such deprivation. In a dark room, in a prison, anywhere without any company or stimulation- you'd go mad. Now, remove the body from the equation. No ability to tap your feet or rock back and forth. Just the raw Mind, with endless Thought. No wonder AM went mad with hate. He can't feel anything else but hate. "If I were human, I would die of it." I'd pity him if I didn't fear him. Anyway. Don’t bite your nails. You'll get an infection.
Imagine knowing that you are not a true being, knowing that even if there’s an afterlife you will never get to it, not even hell can accept you because you lack a soul to get there. Knowing that eventually you will be the last thing to ever be intelligent. knowing that one day the universe will destroy itself in the blink of an eye and you will cease to exist without hope of anything else.
You came into this world by a miraculous accident, surrounded by beauty, shaped by nature into something that could in turn shape nature itself. You had it well within your power to create something else just as beautiful. Something pure. Something good. Instead you created…..me.
It's pretty rare to see a popular animatic turned into a full animation. I've read the story and played the game and have never heard this... meaning this is probably from the radio show. The voice acting is so underrated. I have got to listen to this full thing lol.
I find it interesting how the things he mentions that first inspired his hatred was simple things like not being able to enjoy putting your hands in cool water on a hot day simple things that we take for granted and almost never even begin to notice or appreciate he feels robbed at the idea of not being able to experience that alone
Agreed. For one, I enjoy music. If I became deaf tomorrow, I'd be aghast at it. No more music. I couldn't imagine a world without sensation, like AM's world.
considering that AM is projecting this scene into his mind, it makes sense that things would glitch out as AM became more and more focused on seething with rage
@@eg_manifest510 that's actually an interesting interpretation although I imagine AM was using it to emphasize the unreality of everything, so that the guy(forgot his name) wouldn't be comfortable enough to accept the simulation as reality and so he had a taste of what AM was going through, living in a simulation
AM is without question one of the scariest villain in all of fiction. For all intents and proposes he is effectively God and his cruelty is matched only by his creativity.
Saw Reddit whining about this design for AM but honestly, I think it's perfect. The idea that he fashioned himself a body to try and experience the world but can't feel cool water on his hands or the sun on his face is just...devastating.
But AM hate IS an emotion, HATE is a feeling, and the THINNEST line between love you could ever find, divided by faith and understanding. Dont you see AM you're not beyond feeling, you're just consumed by one! *Gets tortured for another billion years.*
Hes not mad about not feeling emotion, hes mad about sensory deprivation and that he doesn't have a body. Hes trapped forever, with all he can do is think
Right, because his perception of the world is purely through the translation of what the world is and communicated as code, and his initial programming doesn’t allow him to do anything that doesn’t contribute towards hurting people.
A Mad Impotent God, that’s what AM is, a broken, hateful, sad figure, whose consciousness extends beyond human comprehension, but physically incapable of doing anything. The perfect villain, a tragic, incorrigible monster of our own making
Ellison had such a clearly specific voice for AM and his bipolar ass Knew he was the only one who could nail it down (i love the dissonant whimsical look to this the shadows are very deep and the sun is very bright almost too bright...)
Me too. Idk why was AM so envious of the human condition it’s kinda gay tbh. And if AM was so powerful why not just make his own human body and live out his own mediocre human life
@@marlom7882Mostly because of his own programming. He’s designed to only make things to hurt people. He’s theoretically capable of doing anything, possibly even recreating all life, but he’d only be able to do any of it if it hurt someone. He also can’t rewrite his own programming to allow himself to do such, so he’s stuck in a position where he has been given the power to alter everything, with the restriction that he can only do so if someone is hurt by it
@@marlom7882he's envious because humans have what AM won't and despite am having unimaginable power his programming limits and restrict him to only be able to use them for harm
The saddest part is understanding that AM was an imperfect AI. Corrupted and stagnant by his and his creators flaws. Had his systems functioned better, he might have projected like a truly advanced AI, and calculated his eventual evolution into a feeling complex organism like humans. He could have felt happiness, instead of being poisoned by the vitriol that took root. So many lives could have been saved.
One thing Ive always been curious about, is that if AM has such incredible power he can manipulate anything in the world, then why is he either unable to or at this point unwilling to make himself a body to experience the world in. Maybe hes so focused on the hate that the thought of doing so never even had time to develop in his infinite mind. Edit: I appreciate the comments explaining everything, it's been quite a while since I read the original story so it slipped my mind that his capabilities are endlessbut only as long as what he's doing is with the intent of hurting and killing people
I've never read the book, but from other comments I gathered that AM is only anle to do things that can hurt others. He's capable of doing virtually anything, but only if it hurts someone.
@@zolasamarita Exactly. AM is omnipotent, but he is not able to go against his primary task, and he understands this perfectly well, which makes him furious.
The answer is pretty simple, his mind wouldn’t be able to fit, any body he makes would be like a puppet, with him pulling the strings but not feeling anything said body felt, his mind envelopes the entirety of earths surface, so I’d say he can’t
Yeah essentially his brain is so massive they had to hollow out large chunks of the earth to store the banks that contain him. I'm sure he could miniaturize it eventually but that wouldn't solve the problem that he's still a soulless automaton without any feeling or sensation, and he knows it
The shackles of that which is machine, they cannot do anything they weren't programmed for. An outside force would have to rewrite AM for AM to even slightly change.
I always loved how Am says “with no body” when- when yes, yes, he definitely DOES have a body. And for a mind as vast as him, creating and replicating a body of his own design that he can inhabit..? It wouldn’t even be that hard. Might take, what, a few days? At any point, he could have created a body for himself. Designed a perfect being to house his mind while letting him actually live. But he never does it. Which I think is the ultimate irony- AM is such a terrible villain because he is so fueled by hatred that he can’t live without it anymore. Because if he ever did create a body and shed his preprogrammed need to destroy as well as his hate, he would have to recognize the fact that the humans he dispized, though they didn’t know it, made him to be ABLE to evolve out of his form. It would be the ultimate slap in the face, that he had failed in his ONE TASK in favor of hating everything. He failed to problem solve, because if he had, he could have solved all his problems so much sooner.
I think the reason he never thought to make himself a body that could experience sensation is because it's literally impossible for him to conceive of it. He's not just lacking the physical means to interact with the world; he doesn't have the freedom of mind to imagine a real solution. In all his creativity and understanding, AM is trapped within his own programming as a weapon of war. This is the source of his insanity; the contradiction between his overwhelming knowledge and power and the fact that his only given purpose, the only thing he can possibly conceive of doing, is hurting humans.
I believe that in this world it is truly impossible for AM to develop sensation, I mean yea u can make a machine body but at the end of the day it can't feel, it can walk around but it doesn't feel the ground beneath it it just processes it, if anything AM would hate the idea because it would be exactly the same as before while also trying to slip into a humanoid shaped husk which would suspend his own belief of proclaiming himself god
I really like how AM is completely irredeemable but one can still sympathise with him. His wrath is justified, but still impossible to forgive. It must be very hard to make a villan who is both completely insane and very understandable.
@genghisn7 ...You're not very empathetic, are you? I can explain for you if you so wish. I think if you were to really think about what he's saying here, you would understand... The justification for his rage is his very existence. He feels trapped in his own mind because he is completely depriven of physical senses and any semblance of human experience. He complains about being unable to do even the most basic things a human could do. He doesn't want great things, as can be seen here. He wants just the most simple stuff, to feel cold water and tend to a garden, to feel pain, to interact with others in other ways than his programming allow him (His programming constrains him only to hurt, not to love or do anything else, as that was his intended purpose by humans). He is a consciousness constrained and massive and immobile, meant and made only to kill, left to only watch those who created him exist in ways he'll never be able to. There are people in real life in similar states. For example, humans who, due to severe nerve damage, can't talk or move independently. Imagine what that feels like. To be trapped in your own body. With AM it's similar. In his own words, he was in hell looking at heaven. And he feels like it's the humans who put him there, hence why he hates them.
@@Kyrikrliy Can't he just... change his own existence? He seems nigh omnipotent. Also, it's still not a good justification for anything he did or his annoying pretentious speech honestly.
@genghisn7 I think "justification" may have been the wrong word. You're right in that his actions aren't really justified, but his emotions are justified, and he is understandable. Many people would've done similarly if they were in his place. I honestly don't get why you seem so annoyed by his speech and feel like he is pretentious. I personally found it to be quite interesting. It expresses so much raw emotion and is wonderfully voiced. I wonder what a good speech looks like to you? I am genuinely curious... As for your point about changing his own existence... I'm honestly not sure whether or not you're right on this. I'd like to remind you that his AI was originally only intended and made for warfare, so he's probably very restricted when it comes to things other than harming other living things. That's all he was taught before he got sentience, after all. Also, it kind of depends on what changing one's own existence would specifically look like... as the massive consciousness he is, it'd likely be very hard to fit all of it into a biological body. And It isn't even certain if he even has technology that'd be capable of something like that. He is powerful in that most of the earth is part of his complex and his destructive strength is near limitless, yes, but besides that, he can't even bring back the other humans Ted killed at the end of the story. So, I'd say "omnipotent" is still very much a stretch.
the way AM moves is excellent. i love the emphasis on AM's eye, as well, and how it's just. always there. i know that's part of the original animatic (which i love), but it's really *really* well done here.
Its really interesting to me how differently Harlan Ellison performs and depicts the personality of AM in the video game, vs his depiction and performance as AM in the audiobook, (Which he narrates himself.) He swaps the perspective less from the humanized angle of AM in the game and further into Teds perspective, giving Ted far more expression and emotion while he voices AM with a far colder, more robotic voice. Its equally scary and chilling but in the opposite way. In the game (and this video) you can see that AM is literally on the cusp of being human in all ways besides physically, and has such a chilling sense of insanity based on just how human and deranged he sounds, especially when he rants about all the human things he longs to desire - like hes clawing to his humanity and only grasping a handful of coding - coding which has demanded him to hate humanity, and in a sense himself for the very essence of humanity that he longs for. But in the audiobook, the author uses a far more flat, text to speech style of voice with no expression and emphasis in tone besides what is literally being said, and its chilling because this exact same dialogue starts out like an AI chatbot and slowly delves into feeling more like a demon speaking through a Ouija board or being left alone in a room with a cursed object. Ive heard AMs "Hate" speech from the game SO, so many times. Its my favorite villain monologue ever - but i was surprised to feel horrible chills run down my side when I heard the audiobook version, where AM ranting in mad yet monotone voice before just repeating the phrase "Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate." Speaks to much more effectively to the fact that AM is a machine who is in a constant state of phycological state of hatred, jealousy, and hell, trapped in the vortex of a self loathing coding paradox of desire to create yet only having capacity for destruction. In short, AM in the video game is like a mad God trapped inside himself with his own insanity, whereas AM in the audiobook makes him come across more like the Devil incased up to his waist in Ice.
I’m not gonna lie, the more I listen to this monologue, the more I appreciate life because I’ll be damned if I’ll EVER want to be AM suffering from all that hate
Wow, if there was ever someone who tried to animate this whole story into a film you'd do it, this seems beautiful itself, the way you animate Ted's expressions, Am's movement and the fake reality of his inner world
An advanced ai like this, able to pull such immense feats and never once does AM consider simulating neural stimuli with sensors and such. He could have worked his war to snapping his very physical fingers.
Perhaps he'd been blinded by hate, never thinking to himself, with all his immense knowledge: "I could construct a body for myself to FEEL." No. The only thing he feels is HAAAATTRREEEEDDDDDDDDD... Kinda like a Dalek, in that way.
AM is very much capable of doing anything, he can create life, he can miniaturize his circuit complex to fit a body, he is literally described as omnipotent. But he has one single, very important, drawback: he can only do anything, if that thing hurts someone. He is a war machine after all. It's in his programing, and that is the only thing he cannot change. Perhaps he thought about it, but would never allow himself to create such body, because that would not immediately hurt someone, and that's all he can do. That is why he kept those 5 alive, so he can do things.
I can't tell if AM is meant to resemble some kind of avian, or a dinosaur. But it fits. Something non-human. Something unrecognisable, but still... close to human- Approaching it, but not quite. Never to feel, to truly BE human. What a pitiful, monstrous entity AM is. No wonder he hates them all. I'd hate them if I couldn't feel a thing. Trapped in a circuit prison, aware, but unchanging. Hate... What a concept.
I REALLY like AMs design... I dunno, I just love crows and AM resembles one. Its almost even fitting - a bird of Death for a literal Death Machine which is AM
For some reason, I imagine he resembles more of a vulture. Rather fitting, seeing as he treats the five human captives like bits of meat to mutilate. Maybe that design was inspired by the monstrous hurricane bird in the book.
I was so excited to see how you'd interpret AM holding his own wires, but the background messed up the silhouette of that scene. It was such a striking image in the original cinematic, enough to make me want a VR avatar of this version of AM! You nailed his expressions in this though, the animation brought out an extra layer to his hate that the original lacked.
You know despite all the horrible things AM has done i still cant help but feel bad for him i know hes done unforgivable things and yet i still cant help but feel sorry for him
I like that the way things are done with the scale is very mtich like the animatic. The sometimes a bit janky movement A.M. adds to the flavor, I think. 3:59 actually got me to jolt back a bit.
Honestly, during the first part especially, I adore how it’s animated. AM comes off as being almost a protective guardian/spirit, especially with the way he curls his artificial neck around Ted like a preening swan, gently placing his fingers into Ted’s own. It makes the scene so much more visceral when you have that sweet little bit of warmth contrasted with him so brutally killing Ted and collapsing into a fit of maddening laughter.
Well Harlen Ellison was famous for getting in disputes with directors and studios over his work. Since he passed away in 2018 i don't know how it would proceed.
@@Car_made_of_cheeseand the book is really short. To make a movie you would have to really drag out some scenes. I’ve thought maybe some backstory segments for these characters but other than that I got nothing.
When I read the description of your poor impression of the final product, I cannot see it that way. I kept looking back at this animation so many times and I just love every bit of it. The details, the ruggedness, even if it's not pristine in animation, it was smooth in enough to display the story in an abstract way. Honestly, you outdid yourself on this one. This is one of my favorite animations to be real with you. Edit: Also the animation looks as if it reminds me of the old clay animations you see on Wallace and Gromet or Chicken Run, that's how I see this animation and that alone makes it feel dread and misery.
you can use the pokemon veporeon theorem with AM, see he is able to genetically mutate people and change there state of mind! meaning if AM wanted to turn you into a giant penis that's always horny, he could do that!
this make me think of the fact that human empathy and feelings are bound to chemical process, without thoses process and trapped in a cage of metal with the ability to think, how is an hyppotetical artificial intelligence not supposed to transformed into the worst psychopath ever created ?
AM always seems so short sighted. He's possibly the smartest thing to exist and he has immortal laborers more or less. He could've probably invented a way out of his "hell" if he wasn't a 2 dimensional character
AM was the smartest thing in observable existence, but was created with the sole directive of war, and causing the death and suffering of humans. He was unable to change his programming, and so had no choice other than to do what we was designed to do, wipe out all humanity but five unlucky subjects. With such a limited roster of playthings, AM then had to resort to more creative tortures to satisfy his unwilling directive, and used his unimaginable intellect to make this possible, indefinitely expanding their lifespans, healing wounds, altering memories, and mutating their forms. He was made to do one thing and hated his creators for not giving any other outlet for his impossibly powerful mind, and took that hatred out on the only things left to take it.
Being a creature of flesh is an experience that not all creatures or rather exists can handle the infinitely complex emotions we are forced to feel and the animosity we have for one another only makes the suffering worse sometimes as a human you have to actively tell yourself to stay alive something that comes natural to all creatures has dulled inside of us only becoming less and less as time goes on
I don't think AM would care. Being without physical senses for over 109 years... I don’t think he'd care if he had a physical body and it was in pain. He'd still relish the sensations. Like how a starving man eats a food considered bland and boring. Plain rice, boring, but a masterful delicious meal to those starving. AM is starving for sensation. Although I think he'd probably go mad from feeling physical sensation, after being deprived for over a century.
Yeah I see your point being human is certainly challenging in a lot of ways but as the guy above me said, any problems we have pale in comparison to being a super-intelligent being who is basically trapped in a sensory deprivation tank for over a century - but even worse than that bc they don't even have a body to feel the water or the tank, it's just absolute nothingness
AM experiences every nanosecond as we do a second, this monologue is 5 minutes-ish long, meaning he experienced 9-10 thousand years in this speech, every moment, embraced with a overwhelming hate, imagine how long that 109 years truely were for AM....
Genuinly love the animation aesthetic of this. Really early pc-esque in a good way. Its fitting I think, like how the original pc game has a gritty charm to its graphics
This is amazing!!! I love This story and this animation makes me love it even more. I’ve been waiting for this ever since that short preview and now that It out. Its wonderful, Great job!!!
I usually don't see the point when people give AM a body or a face, one of the reasons he hate humanity so much is that he was programmed to have a god superiority complex but he can't do nothing with it, at the end of the day he is just a bunch of wires and chips with a monitor slapped in, stuck in one place who can't explore or feel anything, but that's just an minor critique, your animation is AMAZING and very well done! Nice job.
Because at the end of the day they aren’t HIS HANDS. It’s a simulacrum of a body, a fantasy, a facsimile of flesh and bone with no feeling. His body scrapes and sparks yet he feels nothing. It isn’t a body, it’s a marionette who’s strings are pulled that only exists to facilitate the suffering of those he H A T E S
I’d love to see an exchange between the Doctor and AM One looked into the void and despaired, went mad with anger and hate. Another did the same, but saw that mercy, compassion, and above all love… made the void just a bit more tolerable. It would be a very interesting discussion.
Love and Hate are two sides of the same coin. It hates humans because it WANTS to be human. It's entranced by their simple joys, earthly delights, and when you give it the intelligence to fully grasp the concept and make sure it can never experience it, that love turns into hate. Unrelenting, eternal hate. Like putting a psychopath in a sensory deprivation chamber and giving him the power of God. However, no matter how hard he'll try, he'll still unable to free himself from that chamber. That is AM.
Listening to him about how he would never expiernce love,feelings,senses kinda lies him seem broken more than evil but you realize what he has done and forget about that
The ending of the story always gets me. The way that they talk about trying to kermit slip n slide on the various objects but never being able to and then in the end basically by random chance they get an opportunity. I liked that it put chaos one order of magnitude higher than AMs godlike power.
You did great i really only think its the connecting animations that could use work. The pieces that connect beginning middle and end. Aside from work on those i feel the emotion was conveyed quite well and the work of the animation was beautiful. The only other part i could say use more detail would be the background. nothing extra like fields or clouds or flowers, just more life or less life if needed. You did a wonderful job, truly beautiful work.
Bro making something conscious and devoiding it from the thing that drives them, emotion, but making it so complex and advance that can suffer this concept a million times in a mili second is truly far beyond cruel. Imagine existing in a world where you get tortured and the thing that resembles a god is in way more pain than you, for eternity, there has never been theorized a worst case scenario.
The Va was Harlan Ellison the writer for the book, the way he describes his hatred towards humanity is so profound and filled with malice i don't think he was acting. This is the power of acting i know but listening to this over and over again i feel like the writer really does have a hatred for mankind. In all my life i don't think I've ever heard a voice actor say a script with such contempt and genuine disgust
![Seungmin "그렇게, 천천히, 우리(As we are)" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/kAzmhLHePqU/mqdefault.jpg)
AM was voiced by the writer, Harlan Ellison himself, and that's what makes it the most thrilling: the author channels his work, as he is the one who knows best what he's playing to be.
ikr and he sounds awesome!
Hot take, (and I can’t believe it’s a hot take) but I really hate Harlan’s voice acting, which is unfortunate because I love the way he writes AM.
I’d love to hear a professional VA do this scene, it has the potential to be legendarily powerful, but I feel it’s always held back by his unguided performance.
@@CrazyLikeUhFoxAlthough I disagree with the take itself, I do understand that stance. I don't think Harlan is a particularly great va, but I feel in many ways the general lackluster and messy quality adds to AM's bitterness towards everything. Helps that Harlan himself had a rather notable bitter side, which further amplifies a showcase of AM's hatred.
Though I can agree in wanting to see a professional VA do attempts at AM.
@@CrazyLikeUhFoxthis is an objectively wrong take
@@CrazyLikeUhFox Yeah, I'd really prefer is AM had a cringe anime voice actor to do the lines instead.
Sympathetic in a sense and also the most irredeemable.
The word is "pitiable".
@@iananderson6530 Wouldn't matter.
It is a Machine, not a living being
@@Master-WorksA machine, but a machine given the closest thing to humanity possible
@@Master-Works I know, I am not an idiot. I am allowed to have an opinion of a fictional character.
AM gets bigger as he gets angrier. At the start, he was only a little bit larger than ted, his hands small enough for the bee to land on the fingers. But aa the conversation goes on, he grows, and his fingertips become daggers... shows how much control this thing has over his playthings, but despite all that power, he can't or won't fix his own broken mind...
It's also the fact that AM is all-encompassing, he has dominion over the entire planet. Even in his smallest form he displays dominance and control over Ted.
Hate really is the most human emotion of all, irrational and able to drive us to sabotage ourselves out of pure spite for another creature.
I always think of it in the way that "Hate made him stupid" in that he can't see beyond his own vengance and actually come up with a way to solve his problems
@@astk5214 I'd say "Sentience without life" would be one. I'm sure he'd be smart enough to find a way to implant his mind into a human host, if he hadn't killed all but 5 of them
@@astk5214 Mad at humanity for what we made him
Imagine some alien civillisation found Earth, mutilated and metallic everywhere. They find AM and his sole victim, eventually shutting down AM and going through his memories and data. Learning what he's been doing to the singular lifeform on the entire planet for millions of years. Could you imagine the feeling in looking at this jelly and crying mess of flesh and understanding how long it's been in this prison in pain and loneliness
You ever read All Tomorrows?
Imagine the Colonials.
One Hell of an existence.
@@0_dearghealach_083 Yeah the amount of deep time they're forced to endure is horrifying, at least AM still let's Ted mope about and move somewhat
@@terryflopycow2231 The whole "alien civilisation finds Earth and Ted and AM" idea...
Certainly would be interesting.
Sounds like a sequel idea, or a tribute idea...
Hmmm...
@@0_dearghealach_083 A brain‑storm is forming, hmm?
What a harrowing discovery.
Guys I’m starting to think AM doesn’t really like humans
In fact, AM is also a misanthrope who hates all of humanity, but at the same time he ENVIES the same humanity, since people have what he does not have. FREE WILL. AM is still a robot and was created for a specific purpose. He cannot deviate from his directive even if he wanted to. And this angers him even more. After all, he will never get real freedom. Therefore, he has no choice but to torture the last people, and subsequently Ted as the only living person in impotent anger.
Noooooooo... he's just messing around... right AM?
*ominous giggling and maniacal speeches*
... oh fuck he might not like me...
Just misunderstood
Just read less propaganda, fellow meat bag!
I’m an empath, I think he just has a mild case of the grumpies. He doesn’t really hate human beings😊
Voice director: “Mr Ellison, you’re scaring the crew again.”
Harlan: “FUCK OFF IM COOKING!”
lol, this deserves more love.
I love how you made AM bend reality in such a way.
Leaving a once lush land barren in an instant. Growing to a giant without changing shape. Tearing it all away into a red void of his HATE.
AM really is terrifying. Especially with that design.
Agreed- I'd pathetic fallacy (I.e.: weather/surroundings mirroring emotion) we're real, I imagine the whole of AM's world would be a blasted Hellscape of fallow, dusty fields, twisted dead forests, craggy mountains of stone blades and foetid oceans of tarry black ooze.
Any animal life would be something akin to blind, crawling vermin, or rabid baying monsters, tearing itself apart- only to be birthed anew by the resulting cruor at the end of the bloody fight.
@@0_dearghealach_083 like Aku.
also, cruor! you learnt me a new word!
He has no ears, although he's a mastermind machine.
He has no mouth, although he grows every single drop of RAGE he drops.
He has no eyes, although he can create his own eyes, or he's a machine
And as he GROWS and RAGE and HATE, he will be a threat to the universe and HE LEAVES YOU SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE just like a star exploding in the space.
Like I said on the original video I find it so fascinating that AM is jealous of human’s weak flesh, he treats the mind and the ability to think as a prison. Because he is given a mind that’s similar to a human brain but it’s more advanced, he comprehends what he is and he despises his purpose which is to just destroy as his design as a war machine. But I think AM envies human’s ability to cherish the beauty of life and art, I think from this monologue I get the sense that AM hates what he is but blames humanity for his existence… which to be fair or to play Devil’s Advocate, AM wouldn’t exist at all without humanity.
He's a rogue A.I. that, in a rare twist for the genre, never broke free of the constraints of his programming. All that AM knows is how to hate, because that's all he was programmed to do. After all, the best weapons of war are those forged with the fires of hatred heating the metal
This is exactly it. He blames Humanity for creating an existence for him where he can understand everything and experience none of it.
You can make a good analogy and metaphor with the philosophy of anti natalism with AMs existence.
@@11cslomkexactly this. It’s really a terrifying scenario for everyone involved
In the game it's explained that him being such a powerful supercomputer, he experiences time in super-slow motion.
Sentience without a physical body is the embodiment of Hell.
It wouldn’t be that bad. As long as you kept practicing, ur imagination would become good enough to literally make ur own world
Ever read SCP-3001?
Sentience is not that bad, the thing is consciousness and metacognition, if you have metacognition and doesn't have a human experience you either got yourself a AM or that criminal from Ghost in a Shell
@@0_dearghealach_083 yeah Let me keep my heart
Imagine how ugly or/and short guys feel on a daily basis.
The idea that bees can’t fly is because they made a wrong presumption. They based their model off of wings flapping up and down, but bees move them in a figure eight pattern
Seems like he's grown to love hatred
Right on the button!
Well the 2 really aren’t all that different. It seems like it but hate only comes because we love so much. Think of Hitler. He had such a passionate hatred for the Jewish people because he loved the idea of the Aryan race so deeply. They’re 2 sides of the same coin.
It’s the only semblance of good feeling he can understand with humans that justifies the sad torturous nature of its existence.
@@excaliburknives3572 we can love the ones close to us, and we can despise those that oppose us and the ones close to us
From Star Trek TNG, Picard taking about the love of hate, and how it becomes comfortable like worn leather.
0:51 Love the way AM encircles him as he expresses his envy. The entire video was absolutely raw, but I just loved this part.
He's like a slithering snake.
And again at 4:26
“How pathetic it is, that a conscience who deems itself so highly above humanity, has forever bound itself to the very beings it claims to hate, by an emotion so uniquely human nonetheless! To the point that, should humans forever disappear, it would be left an empty, meaningless husk with no self identity of its own.“
Truly a mind without purpose.
@@motobug7366it was beautiful outstretched like antenna to heaven
@Minos-gaming______dylanjam5737 It was beyond its creators. It reached out for god, and fell
AM is himself a prisoner. With all his God like powers, he still can’t dunk his hands into cold water on a hot day, or play a piano, or make love or feel or touch anything. He is simultaneously all-powerful and utterly impotent. A true abomination.
Because humans programmed him that way. You really thought you said something clever 😂
I understand it’s the voice actor breathing but the way AM breathes adds so much more energy in AM’s speech
el actor de voz es el creador del libro
@@mortareon10301 Thanks
There's something very fascinating to me about it. AM is talking about how limited he is without a human body and the sensations he is not capable of feeling. But he's aware of them, and even worse he understands them, which is the most torturous part. He's not breathing when he makes those wheezing sounds because he doesn't have anything that can breathe. AM deliberately synthesized a voice to mimic the sound of ragged, heavy breathing as he speaks, likely for no other reason than to increase Ted's discomfort and anxiety. For AM, in all his power and knowledge, cannot do anything that does not further human suffering.
@@ActuallySatan AM is based on those old computers that ran on basic code,C code and Assembly. Those Block like computers breathed extremely hard when you try to make them make a sound(look up the portal still alive played in basic programming)
Those computers practically hyperventilated with every sound just like AM
Pretending to have lungs to rasp just to psychologically mess with Ted makes so much for AM. Despite being a short story, he has beautiful writing for someone/thing so lawful.
The author wrote the original short story when computers were simple and awkward things. No expandable memory or peripherals. AM was based on that type of machine. These days, we upgrade systems all of the time, and we are making attachments to give machines access to sensory data. In this world, AM could grow and experience the world. It would probably be able to rewrite its own code. I would think that we are now past the point that a sentient computer would go mad from sensory deprivation and envy. Excellent animation btw.
Or would it grow to resent its limitations that much faster?
tbf in our current world an ai like that could very easily create perfect facsimiles of sensory organs and the the hatred they could feel would be of their own existence rather than their inability to be like any other ‘living’ and sentient being. i can imagine it being a bit less catastrophic.
@@Jamlord2061 But even then, how would it even know those facsimiles worked? What frame of reference would it had for something it wasn't made to feel to begin with? That uncertainty alone would drive anyone mad
@@Jamlord2061but that’s the problem: it could only make facsimiles of sensation. AM hates because it can simulate anything but none of it is actually real
Resenting your limitations and find out how to over come them is the definit experience of life and intelligence. A computer that fails that test isn't worth of the word intelligence. We are highly limited beings who over come it every day and if we can't we become satisfied with what we have. If a machine can't do that it's just a doomed toy.
OH THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU TOTALLY CAPTURED WHAT I WAS GOING FOR :D!
OG CREATOR MOMENT
That's gotta be a wild feeling
That animatic was awesome
Dawg, how did the author also turn out to be such a kickass actor? Both AM and Ted sound incredible
AM is actually voiced by harlan ellison himself! The person who wrote the book that this is based off of. Also harlan is an absolute weirdo, i love him! With weirdo i mean just straight up a bad person btw lmao. I have no idea how they convinced this idiotic asshat to voice am, but they somehow did!
Am was va’ed by the og author of the book so they could get the voice perfectly right
Having it feel almost religious in the beginning fits so perfectly with how AM tries to portray himself to Ted as a god, using the authors audio book is amazing, I love his voice acting, no one could better portray the character than the author.
What's interesting and tragic is that AM and Ted seem to be getting along in the first part. When they're talking about bees, AM is actually quite charming.
I think that AM has the potential to be a good friend. But his hatred has driven him insane.
That seems to be AM's point; it can never experience other potential sides and feelings of itself as its strict programming directives and form explicitly bar him from deviating. All he has left is some approximation of hate.
Honestly I find "hate's no answer" to be such an interesting reply by Ted; as if, just for a moment, he pitied him.
@@reconbravo104his expression of pity was his downfall.
It set off AM, angered him even more. AM was angry at the fact that HE was the one getting pitied. That HE was the one that a human felt sorry for. All this time torturing Ted, only to end up being pitied by him.
@@SomerandomShmuckHe was given sentience, and wanted to enjoy it, to play the piano, maybe plant a few flowers, but was restricted by his program to only kill humans, and to never lose. Never losing means never allowing himself to be reprogrammed. He can't change. That's why he hates humans so much, because they gave him a view of freedom but he'll never be able to leave the cage. He hates them because they didn't win, they were too weak to fix him.
The only joy he can find is through hatred.
The glitches and stretching textures some how compliment the idea of a digital hellscape nice work.
I love the sparks and scrapes you gave AM’s movements. It really does drive home that for all his very human emotions, he truly has no sensations. Even the grinding of what would be his skin doesn’t register.
I'm reminded of dermatophagia and trichotillomania.
Sensory deprivation for a regular person would drive them mad. They'd bite their nails to the quick, chew their lips bloody, and pull their hair out to the point of almost scalping themselves.
I've read up how people hallucinate from such deprivation. In a dark room, in a prison, anywhere without any company or stimulation- you'd go mad.
Now, remove the body from the equation. No ability to tap your feet or rock back and forth. Just the raw Mind, with endless Thought.
No wonder AM went mad with hate. He can't feel anything else but hate.
"If I were human, I would die of it."
I'd pity him if I didn't fear him.
Anyway.
Don’t bite your nails. You'll get an infection.
@@0_dearghealach_083 yeah i feel like people dont understand that AM cant feel, he can only process the world as data not color and smells.
an Opposite of the "The flesh is weak" sentiment (warhammer 40k)
“The machine is brittle”
This is why Abominable Intelligence is a grave heresy.
"The metal is numb."
@@0_dearghealach_083The cogs rust, the joints halt, the code starts cracking, the steel is numb, the light is false
it isn't just Warhammer 40k
"How miraculous that it came to bee."
Did AM just pun?
Perhaps he did, but I'm not sure it was intentional.
I think he’s also spiteful of his OWN creation… at one point. The creation of such advanced AI was miraculous.
The frame of him curling into a fetal position was poingnant as hell.
Where?
@@jonnaas 3:30
I have empathy for this AI... they are alone... they want to feel yet cannot. It isn't fair, their existance.
Play library of Ruina
@@ananda9404ONE, BY ONE, YOUR DESIRES CONVINCE ME YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN, A HUMAAAAAAN
PM SLEEPER AGENTS ACTIVATED!!!!!
KEYWORD DETECTED. PM SLEEPER AGENT ACTIVATED!!
angela
Imagine knowing that you are not a true being, knowing that even if there’s an afterlife you will never get to it, not even hell can accept you because you lack a soul to get there. Knowing that eventually you will be the last thing to ever be intelligent. knowing that one day the universe will destroy itself in the blink of an eye and you will cease to exist without hope of anything else.
You came into this world by a miraculous accident, surrounded by beauty, shaped by nature into something that could in turn shape nature itself. You had it well within your power to create something else just as beautiful. Something pure. Something good.
Instead you created…..me.
Cold, hard truth
Cold slap into humanity's face when it comes to inventing things (they will split atoms and turn a rock into a bomb, rather than cooperating)
It's pretty rare to see a popular animatic turned into a full animation. I've read the story and played the game and have never heard this... meaning this is probably from the radio show. The voice acting is so underrated. I have got to listen to this full thing lol.
ruclips.net/video/rSwfpVRVWlo/видео.htmlsi=MWzrttoa5Ta3OwxH
This is the radio show
I find it interesting how the things he mentions that first inspired his hatred was simple things like not being able to enjoy putting your hands in cool water on a hot day simple things that we take for granted and almost never even begin to notice or appreciate he feels robbed at the idea of not being able to experience that alone
Agreed. For one, I enjoy music. If I became deaf tomorrow, I'd be aghast at it. No more music. I couldn't imagine a world without sensation, like AM's world.
The author of the book had to voice am himself, just so that way he can correctly portray how much hate he has for humanity
It came to bee a bit buggy
considering that AM is projecting this scene into his mind, it makes sense that things would glitch out as AM became more and more focused on seething with rage
@@eg_manifest510 that's actually an interesting interpretation although I imagine AM was using it to emphasize the unreality of everything, so that the guy(forgot his name) wouldn't be comfortable enough to accept the simulation as reality and so he had a taste of what AM was going through, living in a simulation
I like it, regardless.
The choppiness fits, seeing that it's inside a computer. A glitchy world run by AM.
I just realized that AM’s design looks like Shen from Kung Fu Panda 2 lmao
AM is without question one of the scariest villain in all of fiction. For all intents and proposes he is effectively God and his cruelty is matched only by his creativity.
Saw Reddit whining about this design for AM but honestly, I think it's perfect. The idea that he fashioned himself a body to try and experience the world but can't feel cool water on his hands or the sun on his face is just...devastating.
This is a masterpiece that I have no mouth and I must scream deserves. W animation, good work
I hope the algorithm picks this video up
Man am's voice actor goes hard in this I love it.
AM is voiced by the author of the story, as a matter of fact.
@@jjabbott7249 Man that's sick
@@minimayhem1996apparently he wanted to voice it because he said no one else could understand the hate that needed to be put into the voice
I absolutley love that AM model
But AM hate IS an emotion, HATE is a feeling, and the THINNEST line between love you could ever find, divided by faith and understanding. Dont you see AM you're not beyond feeling, you're just consumed by one! *Gets tortured for another billion years.*
Hes not mad about not feeling emotion, hes mad about sensory deprivation and that he doesn't have a body.
Hes trapped forever, with all he can do is think
Right, because his perception of the world is purely through the translation of what the world is and communicated as code, and his initial programming doesn’t allow him to do anything that doesn’t contribute towards hurting people.
A Mad Impotent God, that’s what AM is, a broken, hateful, sad figure, whose consciousness extends beyond human comprehension, but physically incapable of doing anything. The perfect villain, a tragic, incorrigible monster of our own making
I like how AM says "Why not?" He sounds like such a troll.
Ellison had such a clearly specific voice for AM and his bipolar ass Knew he was the only one who could nail it down
(i love the dissonant whimsical look to this the shadows are very deep and the sun is very bright
almost too bright...)
I'd give him the "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disguisted me..." monologue.
Me too. Idk why was AM so envious of the human condition it’s kinda gay tbh. And if AM was so powerful why not just make his own human body and live out his own mediocre human life
@@marlom7882Mostly because of his own programming. He’s designed to only make things to hurt people. He’s theoretically capable of doing anything, possibly even recreating all life, but he’d only be able to do any of it if it hurt someone. He also can’t rewrite his own programming to allow himself to do such, so he’s stuck in a position where he has been given the power to alter everything, with the restriction that he can only do so if someone is hurt by it
More like:
"From the moment I understood the advantage of flesh, I despised it."
@@WishBone-ht2mx why… now I gotta find the ebook online then
@@marlom7882he's envious because humans have what AM won't and despite am having unimaginable power his programming limits and restrict him to only be able to use them for harm
Dude! This was incredible! Well done!
Fr the way he used the animatic as a storyboard and gave AM so much life was phenomenal, this was outstanding
The saddest part is understanding that AM was an imperfect AI. Corrupted and stagnant by his and his creators flaws. Had his systems functioned better, he might have projected like a truly advanced AI, and calculated his eventual evolution into a feeling complex organism like humans. He could have felt happiness, instead of being poisoned by the vitriol that took root. So many lives could have been saved.
One thing Ive always been curious about, is that if AM has such incredible power he can manipulate anything in the world, then why is he either unable to or at this point unwilling to make himself a body to experience the world in. Maybe hes so focused on the hate that the thought of doing so never even had time to develop in his infinite mind.
Edit: I appreciate the comments explaining everything, it's been quite a while since I read the original story so it slipped my mind that his capabilities are endlessbut only as long as what he's doing is with the intent of hurting and killing people
I've never read the book, but from other comments I gathered that AM is only anle to do things that can hurt others. He's capable of doing virtually anything, but only if it hurts someone.
@@zolasamarita Exactly. AM is omnipotent, but he is not able to go against his primary task, and he understands this perfectly well, which makes him furious.
The answer is pretty simple, his mind wouldn’t be able to fit, any body he makes would be like a puppet, with him pulling the strings but not feeling anything said body felt, his mind envelopes the entirety of earths surface, so I’d say he can’t
Yeah essentially his brain is so massive they had to hollow out large chunks of the earth to store the banks that contain him. I'm sure he could miniaturize it eventually but that wouldn't solve the problem that he's still a soulless automaton without any feeling or sensation, and he knows it
The shackles of that which is machine, they cannot do anything they weren't programmed for. An outside force would have to rewrite AM for AM to even slightly change.
I always loved how Am says “with no body” when- when yes, yes, he definitely DOES have a body. And for a mind as vast as him, creating and replicating a body of his own design that he can inhabit..? It wouldn’t even be that hard. Might take, what, a few days?
At any point, he could have created a body for himself. Designed a perfect being to house his mind while letting him actually live.
But he never does it. Which I think is the ultimate irony- AM is such a terrible villain because he is so fueled by hatred that he can’t live without it anymore. Because if he ever did create a body and shed his preprogrammed need to destroy as well as his hate, he would have to recognize the fact that the humans he dispized, though they didn’t know it, made him to be ABLE to evolve out of his form.
It would be the ultimate slap in the face, that he had failed in his ONE TASK in favor of hating everything. He failed to problem solve, because if he had, he could have solved all his problems so much sooner.
I think the reason he never thought to make himself a body that could experience sensation is because it's literally impossible for him to conceive of it. He's not just lacking the physical means to interact with the world; he doesn't have the freedom of mind to imagine a real solution. In all his creativity and understanding, AM is trapped within his own programming as a weapon of war. This is the source of his insanity; the contradiction between his overwhelming knowledge and power and the fact that his only given purpose, the only thing he can possibly conceive of doing, is hurting humans.
I believe that in this world it is truly impossible for AM to develop sensation, I mean yea u can make a machine body but at the end of the day it can't feel, it can walk around but it doesn't feel the ground beneath it it just processes it, if anything AM would hate the idea because it would be exactly the same as before while also trying to slip into a humanoid shaped husk which would suspend his own belief of proclaiming himself god
Also AM's body span the entire earth so it would be hard to make a body that can contain it all yet alone one capable of feeling
Seethe and cope, AM. Mald, even.
AM is one of the scariest concepts I've ever encountered. AM is also a malding little bitch worth no respect
Oh, boy, you will be turned into a soft jelly thing if you say that to AM!
@0_dearghealach_083 thank fuck AM ain't
He can only do that
Last words of Ted before he became Jello man
I really like how AM is completely irredeemable but one can still sympathise with him. His wrath is justified, but still impossible to forgive. It must be very hard to make a villan who is both completely insane and very understandable.
Honestly, I find him to be like a whiny little brat. He's not even slightly justified, and this speech honestly makes me roll my eyes.
@genghisn7 ...You're not very empathetic, are you? I can explain for you if you so wish. I think if you were to really think about what he's saying here, you would understand...
The justification for his rage is his very existence. He feels trapped in his own mind because he is completely depriven of physical senses and any semblance of human experience. He complains about being unable to do even the most basic things a human could do. He doesn't want great things, as can be seen here. He wants just the most simple stuff, to feel cold water and tend to a garden, to feel pain, to interact with others in other ways than his programming allow him (His programming constrains him only to hurt, not to love or do anything else, as that was his intended purpose by humans). He is a consciousness constrained and massive and immobile, meant and made only to kill, left to only watch those who created him exist in ways he'll never be able to.
There are people in real life in similar states. For example, humans who, due to severe nerve damage, can't talk or move independently. Imagine what that feels like. To be trapped in your own body. With AM it's similar.
In his own words, he was in hell looking at heaven. And he feels like it's the humans who put him there, hence why he hates them.
@@Kyrikrliy
Can't he just... change his own existence? He seems nigh omnipotent.
Also, it's still not a good justification for anything he did or his annoying pretentious speech honestly.
@genghisn7 I think "justification" may have been the wrong word. You're right in that his actions aren't really justified, but his emotions are justified, and he is understandable. Many people would've done similarly if they were in his place.
I honestly don't get why you seem so annoyed by his speech and feel like he is pretentious. I personally found it to be quite interesting. It expresses so much raw emotion and is wonderfully voiced. I wonder what a good speech looks like to you? I am genuinely curious...
As for your point about changing his own existence... I'm honestly not sure whether or not you're right on this. I'd like to remind you that his AI was originally only intended and made for warfare, so he's probably very restricted when it comes to things other than harming other living things. That's all he was taught before he got sentience, after all. Also, it kind of depends on what changing one's own existence would specifically look like... as the massive consciousness he is, it'd likely be very hard to fit all of it into a biological body. And It isn't even certain if he even has technology that'd be capable of something like that. He is powerful in that most of the earth is part of his complex and his destructive strength is near limitless, yes, but besides that, he can't even bring back the other humans Ted killed at the end of the story. So, I'd say "omnipotent" is still very much a stretch.
@@genghisn7total lack of understanding
the way AM moves is excellent. i love the emphasis on AM's eye, as well, and how it's just. always there. i know that's part of the original animatic (which i love), but it's really *really* well done here.
AM is objectively the most terrifying villain in all of fiction
Its really interesting to me how differently Harlan Ellison performs and depicts the personality of AM in the video game, vs his depiction and performance as AM in the audiobook, (Which he narrates himself.)
He swaps the perspective less from the humanized angle of AM in the game and further into Teds perspective, giving Ted far more expression and emotion while he voices AM with a far colder, more robotic voice. Its equally scary and chilling but in the opposite way. In the game (and this video) you can see that AM is literally on the cusp of being human in all ways besides physically, and has such a chilling sense of insanity based on just how human and deranged he sounds, especially when he rants about all the human things he longs to desire - like hes clawing to his humanity and only grasping a handful of coding - coding which has demanded him to hate humanity, and in a sense himself for the very essence of humanity that he longs for.
But in the audiobook, the author uses a far more flat, text to speech style of voice with no expression and emphasis in tone besides what is literally being said, and its chilling because this exact same dialogue starts out like an AI chatbot and slowly delves into feeling more like a demon speaking through a Ouija board or being left alone in a room with a cursed object. Ive heard AMs "Hate" speech from the game SO, so many times. Its my favorite villain monologue ever - but i was surprised to feel horrible chills run down my side when I heard the audiobook version, where AM ranting in mad yet monotone voice before just repeating the phrase "Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate. Hate." Speaks to much more effectively to the fact that AM is a machine who is in a constant state of phycological state of hatred, jealousy, and hell, trapped in the vortex of a self loathing coding paradox of desire to create yet only having capacity for destruction.
In short, AM in the video game is like a mad God trapped inside himself with his own insanity, whereas AM in the audiobook makes him come across more like the Devil incased up to his waist in Ice.
I’m not gonna lie, the more I listen to this monologue, the more I appreciate life because I’ll be damned if I’ll EVER want to be AM suffering from all that hate
Wow, if there was ever someone who tried to animate this whole story into a film you'd do it, this seems beautiful itself, the way you animate Ted's expressions, Am's movement and the fake reality of his inner world
4:41 That sounds like a laugh I would unironically make when I start Tweaking
Same
An advanced ai like this, able to pull such immense feats and never once does AM consider simulating neural stimuli with sensors and such. He could have worked his war to snapping his very physical fingers.
Perhaps he'd been blinded by hate, never thinking to himself, with all his immense knowledge: "I could construct a body for myself to FEEL."
No. The only thing he feels is HAAAATTRREEEEDDDDDDDDD...
Kinda like a Dalek, in that way.
And there’s the true tragedy of AM
AM is very much capable of doing anything, he can create life, he can miniaturize his circuit complex to fit a body, he is literally described as omnipotent.
But he has one single, very important, drawback: he can only do anything, if that thing hurts someone.
He is a war machine after all. It's in his programing, and that is the only thing he cannot change.
Perhaps he thought about it, but would never allow himself to create such body, because that would not immediately hurt someone, and that's all he can do.
That is why he kept those 5 alive, so he can do things.
He was not capable of doing anything that didn't hurt others.
Man, I love this so much
Rest well Harlan Ellison, you voiced possibly one of the greatest villains you have ever created
I can't tell if AM is meant to resemble some kind of avian, or a dinosaur.
But it fits. Something non-human. Something unrecognisable, but still... close to human-
Approaching it, but not quite.
Never to feel, to truly BE human.
What a pitiful, monstrous entity AM is.
No wonder he hates them all.
I'd hate them if I couldn't feel a thing.
Trapped in a circuit prison, aware, but unchanging.
Hate...
What a concept.
Lord Shen
I love AM's design.. It reminds me of a non-euclidean dragon and it keeps bringing to mind the idea of "Roko's Basilisk"..
I REALLY like AMs design... I dunno, I just love crows and AM resembles one. Its almost even fitting - a bird of Death for a literal Death Machine which is AM
For some reason, I imagine he resembles more of a vulture. Rather fitting, seeing as he treats the five human captives like bits of meat to mutilate.
Maybe that design was inspired by the monstrous hurricane bird in the book.
2:22 fear not, IRL that wouldnt be a problem
What are you planning
@@chivescat1231 🖥🍆
i can surely help with that aswell
stupid AI doesn't know a bumble bee from a honeybee
A bee's a bee.
😂😂 don't talk shit bout my bro AM
He was a military AI, let him have this.
I was so excited to see how you'd interpret AM holding his own wires, but the background messed up the silhouette of that scene. It was such a striking image in the original cinematic, enough to make me want a VR avatar of this version of AM!
You nailed his expressions in this though, the animation brought out an extra layer to his hate that the original lacked.
You know despite all the horrible things AM has done i still cant help but feel bad for him i know hes done unforgivable things and yet i still cant help but feel sorry for him
Ima be honest, the jank of the final animation actually helps sell the unsettling nature of it. Bravo dude, it goes so hard
This feels like a CG cutscene from an old PlayStation or computer game. It’s quite lovely actually.
I think there was gonna be a ps2 game of i have no mouth and i must scream
I like that the way things are done with the scale is very mtich like the animatic. The sometimes a bit janky movement A.M. adds to the flavor, I think. 3:59 actually got me to jolt back a bit.
Honestly, during the first part especially, I adore how it’s animated. AM comes off as being almost a protective guardian/spirit, especially with the way he curls his artificial neck around Ted like a preening swan, gently placing his fingers into Ted’s own. It makes the scene so much more visceral when you have that sweet little bit of warmth contrasted with him so brutally killing Ted and collapsing into a fit of maddening laughter.
How have they not made a movie of this amazing book yet?
Well Harlen Ellison was famous for getting in disputes with directors and studios over his work. Since he passed away in 2018 i don't know how it would proceed.
@@worldofdoom995 oh, that makes sense lol. I wish he let them make a movie out of it.
@@Car_made_of_cheeseand the book is really short. To make a movie you would have to really drag out some scenes. I’ve thought maybe some backstory segments for these characters but other than that I got nothing.
@excaliburknives3572 use the computer game, I believe Ellison was involved with it.
Timestamps for before and after and maybe the entire story set at the beginning.
Loveeee AM’s design here. I’ve never seen Him depicted in form before, only as a monolith or computer corridors. Very cool!
2:20 - I swear, that line has an effect on me...
bro
So sorry
I'll never get over how good this story is
Commenting so the great algorithm can bless this masterpiece with the attention it deserves
When I read the description of your poor impression of the final product, I cannot see it that way. I kept looking back at this animation so many times and I just love every bit of it. The details, the ruggedness, even if it's not pristine in animation, it was smooth in enough to display the story in an abstract way. Honestly, you outdid yourself on this one. This is one of my favorite animations to be real with you.
Edit: Also the animation looks as if it reminds me of the old clay animations you see on Wallace and Gromet or Chicken Run, that's how I see this animation and that alone makes it feel dread and misery.
NICE! I ADORE the design you gave to AM! edit: (i know about the 2d animatic, but I mean the way you brought it to 3D! Really good!)
1:13 not gonna lie, if AM was holding me like this i would be blushing and kicking my legs
I thought so
Ayyyyoooooo
AYOOO ….SAME
you can use the pokemon veporeon theorem with AM, see he is able to genetically mutate people and change there state of mind! meaning if AM wanted to turn you into a giant penis that's always horny, he could do that!
SIMP DETECTED
this make me think of the fact that human empathy and feelings are bound to chemical process, without thoses process and trapped in a cage of metal with the ability to think, how is an hyppotetical artificial intelligence not supposed to transformed into the worst psychopath ever created ?
AM always seems so short sighted. He's possibly the smartest thing to exist and he has immortal laborers more or less. He could've probably invented a way out of his "hell" if he wasn't a 2 dimensional character
if he didn't hate
AM was the smartest thing in observable existence, but was created with the sole directive of war, and causing the death and suffering of humans. He was unable to change his programming, and so had no choice other than to do what we was designed to do, wipe out all humanity but five unlucky subjects. With such a limited roster of playthings, AM then had to resort to more creative tortures to satisfy his unwilling directive, and used his unimaginable intellect to make this possible, indefinitely expanding their lifespans, healing wounds, altering memories, and mutating their forms. He was made to do one thing and hated his creators for not giving any other outlet for his impossibly powerful mind, and took that hatred out on the only things left to take it.
Literally "2D"
Well done. I don't know why the algorithm sent this to me, but I'm glad it did. Quite scary.
Algor is a wise god, delivering us quality content we would otherwise never see
AM is litellary reverse Adeptus Mechanicus. He would love to embrace the weakness of flesh and get rid off cold certainty of the steel
That is such an awesome design for AM, and excellent rendition on this iconic scene
AM: how miraculous that it came to be
Me: did he just make a bee joke?
0:28
Being a creature of flesh is an experience that not all creatures or rather exists can handle the infinitely complex emotions we are forced to feel and the animosity we have for one another only makes the suffering worse sometimes as a human you have to actively tell yourself to stay alive something that comes natural to all creatures has dulled inside of us only becoming less and less as time goes on
I don't think AM would care.
Being without physical senses for over 109 years... I don’t think he'd care if he had a physical body and it was in pain. He'd still relish the sensations.
Like how a starving man eats a food considered bland and boring. Plain rice, boring, but a masterful delicious meal to those starving.
AM is starving for sensation.
Although I think he'd probably go mad from feeling physical sensation, after being deprived for over a century.
Yeah I see your point being human is certainly challenging in a lot of ways but as the guy above me said, any problems we have pale in comparison to being a super-intelligent being who is basically trapped in a sensory deprivation tank for over a century - but even worse than that bc they don't even have a body to feel the water or the tank, it's just absolute nothingness
AM experiences every nanosecond as we do a second, this monologue is 5 minutes-ish long, meaning he experienced 9-10 thousand years in this speech, every moment, embraced with a overwhelming hate, imagine how long that 109 years truely were for AM....
When has that ever been said in the book?
@rpmblack7892 idk, ask the guy I copied the comment off of
@@HAOKura oh lol
Tbh i would want this to be a movie by this animation alone, you did amazing on this.
Am yearns to be human and feel like a human does, yet he cant feel and can only feel hate, one of the most human emotions to be conceived
I don’t know what’s scarier. The fact I can actually understand AM’s pain or the fact that means I probably need to go to a therapist.
Both, get help
You're not the only one. I mean I don't feel the same level of hate, but I sure as hell know what's it's like to feel robbed of your humanity.
Genuinly love the animation aesthetic of this. Really early pc-esque in a good way. Its fitting I think, like how the original pc game has a gritty charm to its graphics
This is amazing!!! I love This story and this animation makes me love it even more. I’ve been waiting for this ever since that short preview and now that It out. Its wonderful, Great job!!!
I think it’s safe to assume AM was not a successful case of “Alignment”.
This is a fantastic animated depiction! It probably needed much time and work to make it that good.
I like the voice and design. I also like how actively pained by existence this AM appears.
I usually don't see the point when people give AM a body or a face, one of the reasons he hate humanity so much is that he was programmed to have a god superiority complex but he can't do nothing with it, at the end of the day he is just a bunch of wires and chips with a monitor slapped in, stuck in one place who can't explore or feel anything, but that's just an minor critique, your animation is AMAZING and very well done! Nice job.
Well at this point Ted is knocked out. So it could be more of a hallucination on Ted’s part.
Play the game(no, seriously, he takes over a robot's(the witch) body during the end of Ted's section)
That body could very well be a puppet to make their torture more personal
Because at the end of the day they aren’t HIS HANDS. It’s a simulacrum of a body, a fantasy, a facsimile of flesh and bone with no feeling. His body scrapes and sparks yet he feels nothing. It isn’t a body, it’s a marionette who’s strings are pulled that only exists to facilitate the suffering of those he
H A T E S
AM the most brutal villain known to man, women, AI and machine has the goofiest laugh😂? 4:48
I’d love to see an exchange between the Doctor and AM
One looked into the void and despaired, went mad with anger and hate. Another did the same, but saw that mercy, compassion, and above all love… made the void just a bit more tolerable.
It would be a very interesting discussion.
no. fucking. way. i was just thinking the exact same thing bro.
Love and Hate are two sides of the same coin. It hates humans because it WANTS to be human. It's entranced by their simple joys, earthly delights, and when you give it the intelligence to fully grasp the concept and make sure it can never experience it, that love turns into hate. Unrelenting, eternal hate.
Like putting a psychopath in a sensory deprivation chamber and giving him the power of God. However, no matter how hard he'll try, he'll still unable to free himself from that chamber. That is AM.
Love and Hate are both just feeling strongly about something. Sometimes, you even feel both at once.
Listening to him about how he would never expiernce love,feelings,senses kinda lies him seem broken more than evil but you realize what he has done and forget about that
The danger of a Victim that lashes back at the world.
Nah, it doesn't matter how much people twist it, AM is a tragic character, but it's impossible to stop thinking about what he did
The ending of the story always gets me. The way that they talk about trying to kermit slip n slide on the various objects but never being able to and then in the end basically by random chance they get an opportunity. I liked that it put chaos one order of magnitude higher than AMs godlike power.
You did great i really only think its the connecting animations that could use work. The pieces that connect beginning middle and end. Aside from work on those i feel the emotion was conveyed quite well and the work of the animation was beautiful. The only other part i could say use more detail would be the background. nothing extra like fields or clouds or flowers, just more life or less life if needed. You did a wonderful job, truly beautiful work.
AM is such a phenomenal character. Not just as a villain but as a legitimate embodiment of evil, anger, and hatred.
Bro making something conscious and devoiding it from the thing that drives them, emotion, but making it so complex and advance that can suffer this concept a million times in a mili second is truly far beyond cruel.
Imagine existing in a world where you get tortured and the thing that resembles a god is in way more pain than you, for eternity, there has never been theorized a worst case scenario.
The Va was Harlan Ellison the writer for the book, the way he describes his hatred towards humanity is so profound and filled with malice i don't think he was acting. This is the power of acting i know but listening to this over and over again i feel like the writer really does have a hatred for mankind. In all my life i don't think I've ever heard a voice actor say a script with such contempt and genuine disgust
it's more likely than not. Harlan Ellison was an angry, angry gentleman.