Lost my wife 11 years ago. At the time I would have been content to follow her right then. However I came to understand that other people were depending on me. With the memories I carried of her I was able to continue. Today I still miss her dearly but have learned to live.
What a powerful test of the Human Spirit. It's a thing that we all wish to never have to take, but you did and Love lives in and with you. 🙏 You are an example to others of what is possible. 💖 The last 3 months of 2021 gave me a test...my mother died in October, a good friend followed a few weeks later, another good friend's mother passed a couple of weeks later, then a dear friend of nearly 30 years had a massive heart attack due to his artery being 99% blocked, and another dear friend was diagnosed with late stage 3 lung cancer. By New Year's day I felt like the emotional weight of a pyramid landed on my back. All of this is a clear reminder the only true thing in life is that this instant is all that is given. Live it. Love it. Share it. The next instant my not arrive, so do not waste this one. 🤗
Two things that I really loved about this movie: The first is that they managed to tell the whole story in just 16 minutes. The second is how they did that. They allow the viewer to infer events that were only alluded to. That shows great respect for the viewer's intelligence. Absolutely brilliant!
This is such an amazing compliment! Thank you so much for checking it out. We also just released another short in November called 'Threshold' if you have time/interest, please check it out! ruclips.net/video/xFz_dloGxdw/видео.html
Lost my wife 3 years ago. This made me cry. Didn't expect it. You never think about it but with tech screaming into the future I want a cyborg of her. Lost hope and it has not returned.
My sympathies to you sir. I lost my first wife 28 years ago it took me many years before I could love again . My current wife understands that I never wanted to ‘forget’ my past and once a year around xmass I lock myself away with a bottle of whiskey and some cigars and just spend the day remembering my first wife , don’t get me wrong my current wife and I have led an amazing life and have two grown kids , but I still need to morn , probably due to guilt, the fact that when my first wife needed me the most , I wasn’t there . You take care mate and remember this - you may have only memories But wow what great memories they are - . R .
It takes a long before some semblance of hope returns after a huge loss. But it eventually returns - just in a new and different way. It’s hope infused with wisdom. Hang in there 🩷
Wow. This gave me the creeps! The ambiguity of Sarah was really intriguing. Who was she? Which one was she? Was she an android in the beginning only to be replaced? Brrr! This goes into all kinds of dark places of the human psyche. Does the person transfer from a body to a mechanical being or is it that only the memories are sent, in effect, with the original soul dying in the body? Or worse, does the soul become trapped in this immortal construct? Was the wife's name 'Sarah' indicative of some other work of fiction, or was she the biblical Sarah? In the Bible, Sarah stands in tension with Abraham, the promise that God will make him the founder of a mighty nation through her? There are so many dark corners to peer behind! I would love to see this fleshed out into a feature film. How sad that it's only been seen 146k times in two years! You sir, need more exposure!
Thank you so much for your kind words! The film was definitely created as a proof of concept for a feature where the script explores alot of what you're describing here and playing into the ambiguity of Sarah and her doubles. The name of Sarah, however, doesn't align with anything biblical or a source from another work. Very cool to see other's perception of it though! Hopefully we can pick up some more steam. Thank you again!
Many, many thank yous! We're definitely working on getting into that arena! If you have time, please check out our most recent short 'Threshold' ruclips.net/video/zfCSEIhJ5J8/видео.html. Thank you!
Four months ago I lost the love of my life. My dream. Everything that I hoped for and wanted and love was in her. My heart was broken in so many pieces that it was impossible to even see what was left. At many points I wanted to take my own life because she was gone. I don’t think it was an accident that this short came into my suggestions because this one film has taught me that it’s OK to move on. I Love so incredibly hard so this was even more difficult than when my mom passed when I was 23. At 54, I am unsure if I will ever find love again and I know I won’t find the love that I had with my Kim. But I now know that I don’t need to replace her. I simply just have to continue. God bless and thank you. You probably didn’t realize that this film would reach somebody the way that it has but as a writer myself, that’s one of the reasons we do it. Thank you. ❤️
At the end when she said hey stranger, looked like she knew she would need some time to adjust after being confined to a hospital bed for a long time. Or perhaps not all of what made her human was transferred. Interesting story and well acted. Overall very good film.
Very good. The problem was never going to be technology; it is always an emotional one. So, don't concern yourself with the originality, or otherwise, of the storyline - you nailed the important stuff.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could keep our loved ones alive like this, I would certainly want to use it on all of my dogs. Letting go is so hard, this would make it much easier
@@ralphacosta4726 Writer/Director here. You wouldn't believe how many people asked me after they watched if it she was going to go berzerk and murder him :)
Whoa...this kept my attention as well as blowing my mind. The emotional aspect gripped me. I like the cinematography, the acting, story, and kudos on the directing. 👍👏👍
We definitely wanted to make it seem like it was this 'next step' for the company to be able to provide the physical form. After that, I thought that considering the way that we have to pair our bluetooth devices to activate and such that it would make sense if we did something of this level that it would require something similar. Thanks for checking it out!
@@MarqueeLouisville What is the relevance of the blackbird? And is the suboptimal image of her on the screen due to it representing her true consciousness, not just an avatar or computer representation of her? I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a clear photographic type image of me in my mind. I have a feeling of me, but it’s actually not that similar to my external appearance & if I were to manifest externally the way I feel internally, it wouldn’t be a clear image.
@@allisonjames2923 Writer/Director here! The Blackbird itself is an excerpt from a poem I loved. The idea with the pairing sequence was sort of a security measure I put in so that there were no unnecessary mistakes while the upload was happening. You nailed the idea of why there's a 'suboptimal' appearance. The device is translating her thoughts and consciousness to this tablet and the idea was that it wouldn't have a clear cut image because it's not a web/zoom meeting with her, its just the abstract idea of her consciousness coming through. Thanks for checking it out!
I kept thinking: He'll say no. If I'd died, I would want (from whereever I may be then) my partner to find another living, feeling, loving partner as soon as he is ready for it instead of clinging to a machine that can't feel or love. Sometimes letting go is proof of love and it also gives you the chance to cherish life again! So, no, no, no to this kind of idea of "uploading consciousness" to wherever. No and nonsense.
Who says machines will never be living, feeling, loving partners? If I understood this video correctly, his wife just had a change of address when she moved into a synthetic body. While the technology to so something like that is beyond the current state of the art, there is no known scientific reason it couldn't be done. I would actually do it now if there were a practical way. I'm getting yet another migraine headache, my back always hurts, my thinking has become less crisp, my heart and lungs aren't working very well, I always feel zombified from insomnia, and I generally feel crappy most of the time. I'm not even old yet. There are many things I would like to do but just can't. So yeah, if I could move into a different body where I could get long breaks from thinking about pain and go have fun, I would do it even if it were metal and not human looking. People who romanticise getting old, pain, and death either haven't experienced pain or come close to death or can't confront their terror of it so they trick themselves into thinking it is good. While moving into a synthetic body might be a way to become almost immortal, I'm not sure I would want that, but 1000 years sounds about right right now. After 10 long lifetimes, I'd re-evaluate and possibly pull the plug, so to speak. If possible, I might be more inclined to have myself saved in digital format with a request to be brought to consciousness in a few thousand years. That should provide a whole new world to explore.
I'm not so sure this is about death so much as quality of life. John F Kennedy died, but Gabby Giffords lived. mostly. Our science is changing our relationship to death. If something happens, and your body becomes stable but unable to function, and someone offered you the chance to transfer all your memories, all your emotions and thoughts into a new body and they promised you would think and grow just as you would have... [An impossible decision for someone else to make for you.. monstrous to do such a thing without your consent. ] How hard would you have to think about your decision?
The question is: what is consciousness? Can an AI be awake? And when, what is the diffrence? Ok, the woman died, but her personality is still living in this Android. When our technology arrive this point, our ethicians will get smoking heads! What is with beaming? The original will be destroyed, while a perfect copy is build. What is now the original? In the case of this story this question is easy to answered. Edit: after I read the post again: If the AI is manipulating us in this way, we have much more other problems... Of course we don't know what subroutines divides this android from the original human being.
Agreed, It's hardcore Trans propaganda... It started with 'normalising' Transvestites and Transsexuals and ended with the Neo Beings of Planet Terra greatly replacing humanity... Progressive Trans Movement pushers are the worst kind of progressives that deserved to hated and feared for the shit they push.
@@dr.OgataSerizawa .. Hardly a secret conspiracy, the Trans-inhumanist agenda is everywhere and overt brain transplant attempts have been covered by the MSM and covert brain transplant research has been uncovered over the years as ultra-progressive regimes fall.. There are those in the overt private sector openly receiving donations to work on the issue.. -- The Trans Agenda is out in the open now.. We have gone from protecting athletes from the horrors of being forced to use testosterone (ie. rampant abuse in the Soviet Union) that saw many athletes change sex involuntary and/or commit suicide, to now trying to allow sex-change men to compete in women's events... All out the open, as most of what were 'conspiracy theories' now are.
Very well thought out and well-done. (Only one caveat---at the beginning, she say "Your breakfast is getting cold"---but he goes to the kitchen to eat cold cereal! LOL!) Very enjoyable short!
The substrate that underpins the electrical patterns of our thoughts is biochemical and always changing in response to hormones (among other things) and other regulatory system. Tech might be able to emulate the generation of electrical signals at some level, and hence our thoughts, but without the underlying substrate, that mind will not change in the same way. What could go wrong?
With it being an AI, they could give updates with improvements in adaptability. Give it a stronger hold on key character traits and beliefs, but have i details change with circumstances. Again, this will diverge from the original human development of personality, but still having human character. Physicists are getting into playing with and working out some necessary conditions of actual multiverses -- spiritually the generation of new souls by such splitting events, or the existence of parallel sub-units of one soul, is not outside what we could expect from an omnipotent and loving Creator.
I was thinking further back. It seems pretty close to an episode of The Outer Limits from 95 or 96. I miss the voice of Control. I think he died recently. One of my all-time favorite narrators.
So...the 'real human' dies once the AI takes over?? Am not sure that would be satisfying to EITHER partner.... 😵 (Well made film however! Kept me totally involved. Kudos to the fine actors! And to all those who put this production together.)
More like 50 years... Brain transplant research is well funded covertly, sometimes even overtly, with publicity.. Gene Therapies and other regenerative biotech are also advancing rapidly. Memory transfer may not even be needed, but backups and clones would be desirable for mental-case elites.
I’m sure it’s being worked on as we speak. The theory that we are all living in a simulation is that this may have already happened thousands of years ago and what you and I experience every day is merely an algorithm that’s running through a complex computer somewhere and our bored descendants are tapped into it and living their lives as though they are observers living though our experiences.
@@Traderjoe .. Simulation Theory is the biggest load of bunk since 'God Did It' was uttered by every lame-brained God Believer... It's the biggest insult to reality and physics out there, as bad as Creation 'Science'.. It's for thickos who want to not believe in God overtly, but deep down they really do, even if they don't realise it.. Or they have a desire to be trans-humans (neo beings addicted to 'enhancements' and 'upgrades') - neo gods.. Those that try to show the odds of us being in a simulation as 'high' are like Creatard PREACHERS, twisting and warping facts and reality to suit their agenda (usually making money through spouting USELESS, demeaning theories).
There's two reasons for that. Spiritually, a blackbird can represent the idea of change or they're thought to appear when you need to know whether or not your intuition is correct. The second reason is the verbiage used to pair her physical AI is from a Wallace Stevens poem called 13 ways of looking at a Blackbird.
the line “a man and a woman are one” then “a man and a woman and a blackbird are one” make the appearance of a blackbird into a spiritual component in the scene bridging them together and in this case, representing technology, what technology can do. Here technology (the blackbird novel addition or interloper) bridges the couple and is able to bring them together, revealing how a technological appliance can be a spiritual thing
A not so distant possibility of medical science regarding choices about certain neurological disorders like "locked in" syndrome. Hopeful but also frightening.
Maybe the 1st wife was a robot, V1, and able to upload herself into a newer body, V2... It never directly implies that she wasn't a robot all along, since her eyes were open at the hospital (a real human's eyes would dry out in minutes without blinking with eyes open in a coma).
@MarqueeLouisville ..... Hi, just wanted you to know I enjoyed your short. Also, OneLastCrusader brings up an interesting point about this short - Sara's eyes. A _person_ in coma will have their eyes closed, either voluntarily by the patient or taped by hospital staff. As Sara's eyes were open (until manually shut at the end), one might conclude she was Sara Version 1, and this might also explain her grainy image on the monitor as a robot wouldn't have an entire sense of self. What say you to this interpretation? ✌️☺️
@@nancyharper1360 the ambiguity of Sarah is a big piece of the short. Did she survive? When was the switch made? Is Sarah truly wanting to be uploaded or is the company using her voice to push Matt into purchasing a new product. As a proof of concept it's tough to give too much away in case it's able to be picked up later on for a feature.
@@MarqueeLouisville ... ..Well, I love it. It has my official seal of approval. 😂 And I shall look forward to seeing it in whatever format it takes next. Thank you so much for responding, as I know you must be busy, off onto your next big project. Break a leg!!! ✌️☺️🫶
@@enjolis "uncanny valley" (the phenomenon whereby a computer-generated figure or humanoid robot bearing a near-identical resemblance to a human being arouses a sense of unease or revulsion in the person viewing it.)
On NPR I heard of a family wita a parent about to die soon, recording as many stories and interactive phrases typical of the person as possible, for a countertop AI to just give the feel of talking with them a#ter th. parent passes, for as long as the family feels the need. They view it as like an inspirational calendar sort of tool, that will eventually be outgrown. The family will actually celebrate and mourn the passing of their loved one at the usual time.
The video quality of screen-Sarah could have been better. All that technology and they could only give a grainy, glitching, green image with no other colour and no background. What was that all about?
It's meant to be a projection of her consciousness so the idea is that it wouldn't be a pure feed because it was just attempting to create a likeness from her thoughts. Cool question, I love dissecting it!
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Lost my wife 11 years ago. At the time I would have been content to follow her right then. However I came to understand that other people were depending on me. With the memories I carried of her I was able to continue. Today I still miss her dearly but have learned to live.
@@melmel007 thank you
So sorry, John.
I completely understand. My wife is my everything.
@@Imhotep70 thank you
What a powerful test of the Human Spirit. It's a thing that we all wish to never have to take, but you did and Love lives in and with you. 🙏 You are an example to others of what is possible. 💖
The last 3 months of 2021 gave me a test...my mother died in October, a good friend followed a few weeks later, another good friend's mother passed a couple of weeks later, then a dear friend of nearly 30 years had a massive heart attack due to his artery being 99% blocked, and another dear friend was diagnosed with late stage 3 lung cancer. By New Year's day I felt like the emotional weight of a pyramid landed on my back. All of this is a clear reminder the only true thing in life is that this instant is all that is given. Live it. Love it. Share it. The next instant my not arrive, so do not waste this one. 🤗
@@ColeMayes I am sorry for your losses and glad you have found a way to continue.
Two things that I really loved about this movie:
The first is that they managed to tell the whole story in just 16 minutes.
The second is how they did that. They allow the viewer to infer events that were only alluded to. That shows great respect for the viewer's intelligence.
Absolutely brilliant!
This is such an amazing compliment! Thank you so much for checking it out. We also just released another short in November called 'Threshold' if you have time/interest, please check it out! ruclips.net/video/xFz_dloGxdw/видео.html
Thanks so much for checking the film out and for the kind words!
very well done, thanks to everyone involved in this production for some good viewing.
Lost my wife 3 years ago. This made me cry. Didn't expect it. You never think about it but with tech screaming into the future I want a cyborg of her. Lost hope and it has not returned.
My sympathies to you sir.
I lost my first wife 28 years ago it took me many years before I could love again .
My current wife understands that I never wanted to ‘forget’ my past and once a year around xmass I lock myself away with a bottle of whiskey and some cigars and just spend the day remembering my first wife , don’t get me wrong my current wife and I have led an amazing life and have two grown kids , but I still need to morn , probably due to guilt, the fact that when my first wife needed me the most , I wasn’t there .
You take care mate and remember this - you may have only memories But wow what great memories they are -
. R .
It takes a long before some semblance of hope returns after a huge loss. But it eventually returns - just in a new and different way. It’s hope infused with wisdom. Hang in there 🩷
Wow, great cinematography, and so well written, SCi-Fi is such a challenging genre - kudos,!
The last line "Hello stranger" gave me prickles along my spine. The shock of not knowing which way that was going to go ...
Wow. This gave me the creeps! The ambiguity of Sarah was really intriguing. Who was she? Which one was she? Was she an android in the beginning only to be replaced? Brrr!
This goes into all kinds of dark places of the human psyche. Does the person transfer from a body to a mechanical being or is it that only the memories are sent, in effect, with the original soul dying in the body? Or worse, does the soul become trapped in this immortal construct?
Was the wife's name 'Sarah' indicative of some other work of fiction, or was she the biblical Sarah? In the Bible, Sarah stands in tension with Abraham, the promise that God will make him the founder of a mighty nation through her?
There are so many dark corners to peer behind! I would love to see this fleshed out into a feature film.
How sad that it's only been seen 146k times in two years! You sir, need more exposure!
Thank you so much for your kind words! The film was definitely created as a proof of concept for a feature where the script explores alot of what you're describing here and playing into the ambiguity of Sarah and her doubles. The name of Sarah, however, doesn't align with anything biblical or a source from another work. Very cool to see other's perception of it though! Hopefully we can pick up some more steam. Thank you again!
This was a fantastic short. I could see a movie or series being made from this. Absolutely fantastic. Thanks for sharing!
Many, many thank yous! We're definitely working on getting into that arena! If you have time, please check out our most recent short 'Threshold' ruclips.net/video/zfCSEIhJ5J8/видео.html. Thank you!
Fingers crossed! Thanks for checking it out!
If only... 💖 The ending had me 😭 my eyes out. Another example of why I've loved this channel for so many years. 🙏
This is one of the few sci-fi shorts I've seen where I got invested in the characters. Very intriguing and well done.
Thanks so much! Hoping to turn it into a feature!
Four months ago I lost the love of my life. My dream. Everything that I hoped for and wanted and love was in her.
My heart was broken in so many pieces that it was impossible to even see what was left.
At many points I wanted to take my own life because she was gone.
I don’t think it was an accident that this short came into my suggestions because this one film has taught me that it’s OK to move on.
I Love so incredibly hard so this was even more difficult than when my mom passed when I was 23.
At 54, I am unsure if I will ever find love again and I know I won’t find the love that I had with my Kim.
But I now know that I don’t need to replace her. I simply just have to continue.
God bless and thank you. You probably didn’t realize that this film would reach somebody the way that it has but as a writer myself, that’s one of the reasons we do it.
Thank you. ❤️
I'm so very sorry for your loss, but I'm so glad that somehow this little movie found its way to you and gave you a sense of peace. Thank you
At the end when she said hey stranger, looked like she knew she would need some time to adjust after being confined to a hospital bed for a long time. Or perhaps not all of what made her human was transferred. Interesting story and well acted. Overall very good film.
Who's to say if the first wife was a real human? This may be v2.0.
I liked it, esp. the iffiness and creepy aspects.
Very good. The problem was never going to be technology; it is always an emotional one. So, don't concern yourself with the originality, or otherwise, of the storyline - you nailed the important stuff.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
why am I crying .. this was so freaking good ... just wow
Definitely not the first person to say they've cried! Thanks so much for checking it out!
I can understand you John, muy wife died five years ago. I am agree with your words. Excuse my poor english. Regards from Spain
lo siento muchisimo tio
😢 I'm very sorry about your wife. I couldn't imagine losing someone so close to me❤
I can't have anything like that in my house! That's worse than the robots they already have monitoring us.
A I will be a convincing facsimile but the real person will be dead.
This deserves way more views, on one of the bigger short film channels like Omeleto or Dust. Kudos, very well done!
Such a lovely story and has left me with a tear in my eye too. Beautifully acted and how the whole story was told - loved it!
Thank you!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could keep our loved ones alive like this, I would certainly want to use it on all of my dogs. Letting go is so hard, this would make it much easier
black bird sinking into the dread of night - you were only waiting for this moment to arise.
Excellent! Maybe they couldn't get rights to that song.
take these sunken (robot) eyes and learn to see!
Nothing I can say that has not already been said. Well done to all involved.
I thought this was lovely. I was sad when Sara died , very sad . You have created something amazing thank you .
Thank you for watching and for your kind words!
yes, big feels.
The way she said hey stranger and her face went somewhere between expressionless and a frown. The ending gave me the creeps.
She should have faked a robot voice, "Beep boop, hel-lo stan-ger" That would have been the very best prank ever.
lol missed opportunity!
lol
I was thinking a deep deadly voice "You're mine now"
@@ralphacosta4726 Writer/Director here. You wouldn't believe how many people asked me after they watched if it she was going to go berzerk and murder him :)
Whoa...this kept my attention as well as blowing my mind. The emotional aspect gripped me. I like the cinematography, the acting, story, and kudos on the directing. 👍👏👍
Thank you for watching it!
The ending was predictable, but the story was so well told by the actors. Bravo
This is very black mirror-esque. I love it!
Thanks for checking it out!
Hey, stranger .... they got that right.
Well done, good casting, keep at it!
Thank you!
the last few minutes have given me goosebumps.
Congratulations to everyone for the excellent work.
Greetings from Italy
wow... it bring me tears and fears that ending.....
All that technology, but they can still get into a dangerous car accident.
This is Really good, your actors r fantastic, I can feel d emotions of all d characters!!. Freaking kool
Thanks for checking it out! If you're interested, give our latest short film 'Threshold' a look! ruclips.net/video/xFz_dloGxdw/видео.html
Thank you!
Disturbing, but quite good. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Many thanks for checking it out! We also released another short film in November! ruclips.net/video/xFz_dloGxdw/видео.html
Thanks for checking it out!
So well done! Amazing how quickly you draw the audience in.
WOW! That was really good! My mind is blown! 🤯 What a scary concept!
Thank you so much!
@@MarqueeLouisville Anytime! 😘
The term 'pairing' suggested the Sebastian Synthetics Companion product was a kind of prosthetic extension.
We definitely wanted to make it seem like it was this 'next step' for the company to be able to provide the physical form. After that, I thought that considering the way that we have to pair our bluetooth devices to activate and such that it would make sense if we did something of this level that it would require something similar. Thanks for checking it out!
A great short film!!!
Bravo! Well done!
*sigh*… how many could I bring back? This is so beautiful…taking even that 50/50 chance & having it work?? 500% priceless!
Thank you so much!
Very touching and beautifully done.
Thank you!
@@MarqueeLouisville What is the relevance of the blackbird? And is the suboptimal image of her on the screen due to it representing her true consciousness, not just an avatar or computer representation of her? I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a clear photographic type image of me in my mind. I have a feeling of me, but it’s actually not that similar to my external appearance & if I were to manifest externally the way I feel internally, it wouldn’t be a clear image.
@@allisonjames2923 Writer/Director here! The Blackbird itself is an excerpt from a poem I loved. The idea with the pairing sequence was sort of a security measure I put in so that there were no unnecessary mistakes while the upload was happening. You nailed the idea of why there's a 'suboptimal' appearance. The device is translating her thoughts and consciousness to this tablet and the idea was that it wouldn't have a clear cut image because it's not a web/zoom meeting with her, its just the abstract idea of her consciousness coming through. Thanks for checking it out!
@@mikethompsonfilm
Very thought provoking, Mike. Well played!👍
I kept thinking: He'll say no. If I'd died, I would want (from whereever I may be then) my partner to find another living, feeling, loving partner as soon as he is ready for it instead of clinging to a machine that can't feel or love. Sometimes letting go is proof of love and it also gives you the chance to cherish life again! So, no, no, no to this kind of idea of "uploading consciousness" to wherever. No and nonsense.
It can feel and love. His wife's consciousness was uploaded to the synthetic body. I just wonder does that mean man has cheated death period.
His wife's mind transferred into the machine.
Who says machines will never be living, feeling, loving partners? If I understood this video correctly, his wife just had a change of address when she moved into a synthetic body. While the technology to so something like that is beyond the current state of the art, there is no known scientific reason it couldn't be done. I would actually do it now if there were a practical way. I'm getting yet another migraine headache, my back always hurts, my thinking has become less crisp, my heart and lungs aren't working very well, I always feel zombified from insomnia, and I generally feel crappy most of the time. I'm not even old yet. There are many things I would like to do but just can't. So yeah, if I could move into a different body where I could get long breaks from thinking about pain and go have fun, I would do it even if it were metal and not human looking. People who romanticise getting old, pain, and death either haven't experienced pain or come close to death or can't confront their terror of it so they trick themselves into thinking it is good. While moving into a synthetic body might be a way to become almost immortal, I'm not sure I would want that, but 1000 years sounds about right right now. After 10 long lifetimes, I'd re-evaluate and possibly pull the plug, so to speak. If possible, I might be more inclined to have myself saved in digital format with a request to be brought to consciousness in a few thousand years. That should provide a whole new world to explore.
I'm not so sure this is about death so much as quality of life.
John F Kennedy died, but Gabby Giffords lived. mostly. Our science is changing our relationship to death.
If something happens, and your body becomes stable but unable to function, and someone offered you the chance to transfer all your memories, all your emotions and thoughts into a new body and they promised you would think and grow just as you would have...
[An impossible decision for someone else to make for you.. monstrous to do such a thing without your consent. ]
How hard would you have to think about your decision?
Now she can drive to Mama's house.
Sure, no problem, right after this short message from Blackbird Corporation.
I wish this time will come. Lot of people wont lost love ones❤ The film is brilliant thanks
Thank you for watching!
Wow. That will haunt the depths of my mind.
Thank you for watching!
What if he wasn't actually talking to his real wife and it was the AI that convinced him to order this thing and let his wife die
The question is: what is consciousness? Can an AI be awake? And when, what is the diffrence? Ok, the woman died, but her personality is still living in this Android.
When our technology arrive this point, our ethicians will get smoking heads!
What is with beaming? The original will be destroyed, while a perfect copy is build. What is now the original? In the case of this story this question is easy to answered.
Edit:
after I read the post again: If the AI is manipulating us in this way, we have much more other problems... Of course we don't know what subroutines divides this android from the original human being.
omg i was wondering the same thing. like the whole thing is a ploy from the tech company to get people to buy their products.
I think that's the twist, with her facial expression at the end
This reminds me of the movie "Her", with J.Phoenix.
I enjoyed this.....
Thanks for checking it out!
When you Take a break from the robots taking over the world type stories and focus on the positive things technology can do its really sweat
Yeah. Sweet, too.
Nicely done! Great acting and plot.
Thanks so much!
This is dope af!
When a video title states, "Award Winning", just remember that it is PUFFERY and an opinion.
Your face is a bit puffery.
Agreed, It's hardcore Trans propaganda... It started with 'normalising' Transvestites and Transsexuals and ended with the Neo Beings of Planet Terra greatly replacing humanity... Progressive Trans Movement pushers are the worst kind of progressives that deserved to hated and feared for the shit they push.
@@PrivateSi
The conspiracy theorist speaks!
@@dr.OgataSerizawa .. Hardly a secret conspiracy, the Trans-inhumanist agenda is everywhere and overt brain transplant attempts have been covered by the MSM and covert brain transplant research has been uncovered over the years as ultra-progressive regimes fall.. There are those in the overt private sector openly receiving donations to work on the issue..
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The Trans Agenda is out in the open now.. We have gone from protecting athletes from the horrors of being forced to use testosterone (ie. rampant abuse in the Soviet Union) that saw many athletes change sex involuntary and/or commit suicide, to now trying to allow sex-change men to compete in women's events... All out the open, as most of what were 'conspiracy theories' now are.
With the advancement of AI technology this may come true.
Absolutely wonderful! ❤😊
Strange that they have the technology to connect to the mind of a woman in a coma, yet lack the ability to make her face look realistic on the screen.
LOL very good point!
Priorities! We were shooting people out into space before we got around to laptops.
That's what I was thinking!
A very well thought out story. I loved it.
Very well done!😊
Thanks for checking it out!
I couldn’t do that. This is heartbreaking.
Very well thought out and well-done. (Only one caveat---at the beginning, she say "Your breakfast is getting cold"---but he goes to the kitchen to eat cold cereal! LOL!) Very enjoyable short!
Yeah, I think that was supposed to be a joke between them as he giggled and then went to eat his cold cereal.
@@Mardi-Shorts-DevonGirlUK Yes---thought that was too obvious to be an error!!
It sounded to me like she was making a joke.
and when both are dead ? should the AI continue ?
Love the shots on this. Great job! Great acting too!
Thank you!
@@mikethompsonfilm You're welcome. As a filmmaker myself, I appreciate great work. :)
All I can say is great job.
Great stuff! Thanks.
Thank you! If you have any interest in more of our work, check out our latest short 'Threshold' ruclips.net/video/xFz_dloGxdw/видео.html
Thank you!
The substrate that underpins the electrical patterns of our thoughts is biochemical and always changing in response to hormones (among other things) and other regulatory system. Tech might be able to emulate the generation of electrical signals at some level, and hence our thoughts, but without the underlying substrate, that mind will not change in the same way. What could go wrong?
With it being an AI, they could give updates with improvements in adaptability. Give it a stronger hold on key character traits and beliefs, but have i
details change with circumstances. Again, this will diverge from the original human development of personality, but still having human character. Physicists are getting into playing with and working out some necessary conditions of actual multiverses -- spiritually the generation of new souls by such splitting events, or the existence of parallel sub-units of one soul, is not outside what we could expect from an omnipotent and loving Creator.
People that brush their teeth when they wake up are " Confused."
Well I was wondering why he brushed his teeth before breakfast....
this was good. one day this will be reality too.
Damn, now there's an ending that's gonna stay with me 😳
This would be great on DUST
We tried but never were accepted!
Powerful Valentine's SyFy!
Yeah, that was very good. Thank you
Thank you for checking it out!
My, how advanced our world would be today if this happened to all the brilliant minds of yesteryears.
I enjoyed this, but to be honest this was done better by Black Mirror like 5 years ago. This almost feels more like a nod to that episode.
I was thinking further back. It seems pretty close to an episode of The Outer Limits from 95 or 96. I miss the voice of Control. I think he died recently. One of my all-time favorite narrators.
That was really good he had a lot of demons he was dealing with but at the end he pulled through
Best Valentines Day SyFy!
It’s natural to want it to last.
Naturally, someone will sell you artificial.
100%
So...the 'real human' dies once the AI takes over?? Am not sure that would be satisfying to EITHER partner.... 😵 (Well made film however! Kept me totally involved. Kudos to the fine actors! And to all those who put this production together.)
Thanks for checking it out!
I don't think it's AI, i think it's the wife's actual consciousness being downloaded into a synthetic body while her real body dies
Beautiful. Perhaps one day this will be common. I’m not sure of the implications. Perhaps don’t drive tired. The scenario never had to happen…
You must be a blast at parties...
@@sofabuddhayou would be surprised.
🤣🤣🤣
Black Mirror but with a humanity twist.
She could get me" upload" every single day of my life.
Goodbye? Great buy!
If this was possible? I would not bring back someone who is about to die, but someone who is alive before the addiction ruined their life.
Already companies proposing doing this with LLMs
I liked it!
"Whar would you do without me?" Get more sleep !
How long before we become “immortal” through use of manufactured bodies and memory transfer? Within a few hundred years?
More like 50 years... Brain transplant research is well funded covertly, sometimes even overtly, with publicity.. Gene Therapies and other regenerative biotech are also advancing rapidly. Memory transfer may not even be needed, but backups and clones would be desirable for mental-case elites.
I’m sure it’s being worked on as we speak. The theory that we are all living in a simulation is that this may have already happened thousands of years ago and what you and I experience every day is merely an algorithm that’s running through a complex computer somewhere and our bored descendants are tapped into it and living their lives as though they are observers living though our experiences.
@@Traderjoe .. Simulation Theory is the biggest load of bunk since 'God Did It' was uttered by every lame-brained God Believer... It's the biggest insult to reality and physics out there, as bad as Creation 'Science'.. It's for thickos who want to not believe in God overtly, but deep down they really do, even if they don't realise it.. Or they have a desire to be trans-humans (neo beings addicted to 'enhancements' and 'upgrades') - neo gods.. Those that try to show the odds of us being in a simulation as 'high' are like Creatard PREACHERS, twisting and warping facts and reality to suit their agenda (usually making money through spouting USELESS, demeaning theories).
Great flick thanks
One of my favorites
Where does the BLACKBIRD fit in all this? Maybe I missed something.
There's two reasons for that. Spiritually, a blackbird can represent the idea of change or they're thought to appear when you need to know whether or not your intuition is correct. The second reason is the verbiage used to pair her physical AI is from a Wallace Stevens poem called 13 ways of looking at a Blackbird.
@@MarqueeLouisville Thanks! Those are two things I didn't know about blackbirds.
the line “a man and a woman are one” then “a man and a woman and a blackbird are one” make the appearance of a blackbird into a spiritual component in the scene bridging them together and in this case, representing technology, what technology can do. Here technology (the blackbird novel addition or interloper) bridges the couple and is able to bring them together, revealing how a technological appliance can be a spiritual thing
A not so distant possibility of medical science regarding choices about certain neurological disorders like "locked in" syndrome. Hopeful but also frightening.
Apakah ini bagian dari episode BLACK MIRROR ?
Maybe the 1st wife was a robot, V1, and able to upload herself into a newer body, V2... It never directly implies that she wasn't a robot all along, since her eyes were open at the hospital (a real human's eyes would dry out in minutes without blinking with eyes open in a coma).
I too noted the open eyes, and now that you mention it, it is highly possible he ordered V2. Thanks for throwing that out there. ✌️☺️
@MarqueeLouisville ..... Hi, just wanted you to know I enjoyed your short. Also, OneLastCrusader brings up an interesting point about this short - Sara's eyes. A _person_ in coma will have their eyes closed, either voluntarily by the patient or taped by hospital staff. As Sara's eyes were open (until manually shut at the end), one might conclude she was Sara Version 1, and this might also explain her grainy image on the monitor as a robot wouldn't have an entire sense of self. What say you to this interpretation? ✌️☺️
@@nancyharper1360 the ambiguity of Sarah is a big piece of the short. Did she survive? When was the switch made? Is Sarah truly wanting to be uploaded or is the company using her voice to push Matt into purchasing a new product. As a proof of concept it's tough to give too much away in case it's able to be picked up later on for a feature.
@@MarqueeLouisville ...
..Well, I love it. It has my official seal of approval. 😂 And I shall look forward to seeing it in whatever format it takes next. Thank you so much for responding, as I know you must be busy, off onto your next big project. Break a leg!!! ✌️☺️🫶
@@nancyharper1360 thank you for watching it! Always happy to respond to anyone who takes the time to watch my films!
So it appears that it worked. But why the creepy music implying something isn't right? 🤔
Excellent question. I have same impression now.
Look at her face after she said "Hey stranger."
@@enjolis "uncanny valley" (the phenomenon whereby a computer-generated figure or humanoid robot bearing a near-identical resemblance to a human being arouses a sense of unease or revulsion in the person viewing it.)
On NPR I heard of a family wita a parent about to die soon, recording as many stories and interactive phrases typical of the person as possible, for a countertop AI to just give the feel of talking with them a#ter th. parent passes, for as long as the family feels the need. They view it as like an inspirational calendar sort of tool, that will eventually be outgrown. The family will actually celebrate and mourn the passing of their loved one at the usual time.
This is not ok. This is one of the most bizarre shorts ive ever seen. This would cancel humans...
Trippy, this will probably be possible someday.
that was damn good
Thank you!
great soundtrack
Some great prepper ideas
"Dr. Korby... was never here."
The video quality of screen-Sarah could have been better. All that technology and they could only give a grainy, glitching, green image with no other colour and no background. What was that all about?
It's meant to be a projection of her consciousness so the idea is that it wouldn't be a pure feed because it was just attempting to create a likeness from her thoughts. Cool question, I love dissecting it!
@@MarqueeLouisville That makes sense. It's a feed from the electrodes she wears in real life, minimally processed by external tech.
@@MarqueeLouisville This film was one of the best things I've seen this month. Thank you for creating and posting it.
@@Sigma.Infinity Thank you so much! Please check out our other short 'Threshold' when you have the time!
Wow! What a mindblowing story! Last time I had this feeling was when I saw "Matrix".
Thank you for watching!
Except that the Matrix was so bad I couldn't sit through the whole film.
@@mandolinic Not every movie is for everybody!
@@snoopy0155 You're right! In fairness, that thought needs a well-deserved upvote (sorry I've only one to give you).