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The ending that I was hoping/expecting (spoiler)

posted 10 years ago by luxerus
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I wasn't surprised that Will had survived in that shelter in his home, after all, the beginning foreshadowed that quite directly.

However, since Will was able to recreate a body identical to his, why didn't he upload his mind to a recreated brain? I suppose this could go beyond his capacities. From a science-fiction point of view, the idea of going from AI to organic intelligence would have been an amazing way of avoiding that virus and, in essence, creating a biological back-up. Perhaps that intelligence would have been more limited, but he could have tried to recreate the original Will, i.e. the intelligence the AI started up as.

Perhaps Will should have tried avoiding human detection for many more years/decades until he figured out ways to be essentially indestructible. For instance, he could have created more ways to exist "offline".

[–] andrewpi7 10 years ago

The fact is we never know how Will got his new body. I think it's generous to say he just created an entire adult body without a soul (head, organs, but no soul) all from thin air (a petri dish, etc) for himself to simply jump into like it's an Armani suit.

I think it's also telling Will never tried to avoid human detection. He knew the technophobes were out there and could have been discrete, but instead basically said, 'just try to stop me' with Evelyn's new company earning millions of dollars in a single day. He either does some very stupid things for an allegedly brilliant AI or his motives were less than peaceful & innocent.