Tag: The Fall

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How Artificial Intelligence Views Humans in ‘The Fall’

In my last PopMatters post I wrote about how humans view AI, this time I reverse the position and explore how AI views us in The Fall. I had some idea about where I was going with this as I was writing it. In fact, it would have gone up two weeks earlier, but I had to rewrite a majority of it so that many of the new insights that I gleened during the process of logically thinking through each character would fit into a more nuanced and detailed thesis that had emerged. | more

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Attempting to Characterize Artificial Intelligence in ‘The Fall’

I’m finally back to writing and finally getting around to jotting some thoughts down on my number 2 game from last year, The Fall. These are more the beginning of thoughts regarding The Fall‘s display of consciousness and intelligence than fully formed conclusions. One of the big issues a lot of science fiction has is that when it presents alien intelligence it generally just shows off a facet of human intelligence. Star Trek is the big example. | more

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‘The Fall’ Explores Artificial Intelligence and Indentity

This time on PopMatters’ Moving Pixels Podcast we talk about my second favorite game from last year, The Fall. We continue this week with another philosophically loaded sci-fi game touching on the concept of identity. Originally, we thought about discussing both The Fall and The Swapper in the same podcast, but after recording both episodes, I’m glad we decided to separate them. They’re both such thematically dense games and we didn’t get to touch on everything I think we could have in them, that cutting the time we spent on each wouldn’t be fair to either game. | more