A.i.
everyone has ai neurofeedback controls built into their brains. control their smarthomes, appliances, ovens, appliances.
opening scene, someone walks into a kitchen and sits at a table. they reach to grab a glass that isn’t there, and as their hand gets closer to their face, a drone is shown pouring a glass of milk and bringing it to the person’s hand, split second before they drink.
looks at milk in glass, ‘this fridge isn’t cold enough.’ as soon as she does the temp drops, she concentrates, the knob turns down 4 degrees.
Stores have small drones flying through the store picking out whatever they think. drones have cameras so people do all shopping via drones, or they can simply concentrate on a product and a drone will pick it up if they can control their concentration. Everything is early a.i. based combined with neurofeedback technology.
Main character is born. breaks every device he tries to control. freak of nature ability to concentrate and control neurofeedback modules.
Goes through some mishaps. learns to control it. he burns out the implanted neurofeedback module at some point and has to rebuild it on his own. most are standard issue/stock and he doesn’t want to go through that again. he had no ability to get anything done and he had to physically cut it out of his head. Builds new system for himself that won’t break down.
jump ahead a few years
scene – main character asks wife what do you want for dinner
she names a few things he has drones picking each up
she says some random vegetables
drone leaves the store, travels speed of sound, passes government city, state and national border-watch drones
picks vegetables from the side of a snow covered hill under a greenhouse. only organic vegetables available in the world. the food supply has long been genetically modified, people are deformed everywhere, all types of mutations.
“how did you do that” [cut to a flashback of drones plowing a field planting seeds in a remote country]
criminals build weaponized drones. street gangs/crooks build new drones all the time equipped with guns, bombs, gas.
scene: gang members are posted up in a rundown building a few drones perched in the corners and outside for security as camera passes into building. leader’s showing a drone he built. overcompensating and ruthless, he goes to shoot someone with it to demonstrate. another gang member is more focused/mentally gifted and turns the drone on the gang leader
main plot
Upper level organized crime groups harvest people’s minds. they have programs that confuse/slightly hypnotize people (running mundane jobs they think are helping). Mentally they’re running on hamster wheels with their neurofeedback machines generating energy stored in guarded servers
they’re linked into the org crime networks and generate enormous amounts of electricity and processing power, mining energy and e- currency for the organized crime machine. overworked, underpaid but they’re used to it. the villian communicates with a few people at the top of the organized crime machine to keep it running, as they consult with him on how to subdue the masses and keep the energy storing.
the villian could care less about the cryptocurrency, money is not an issue but energy is. he is working to build the first 100% authentic artificial intelligence machine as it has still not been invented. tech is extremely advanced, but that level of A.I. some people are assuming is a fable and we wont reach it. villian believes if he creates it first he can control it, live forever and run the world and solar system/universe/everything.
the main character believes the a.i. will be autonomous but will innately have the best intentions for consciousness and humanity
the mob network they fuel is an incredibly encrypted network, mostly invisible to the average person. people see things now and then that don’t make sense, but most don’t ask questions. “it’s a bug”
those who do think the network exists say it was built by the smart super villian. legends get passed around he set it up and disappeared from the grid, some think he died (they pinpoint ballpark of how old he must be, would be older than the average human alive by now. some think he went away to work on a new system.
main character’s goal is to wake the people up, de-power the network and stop the next plot. but the main goal is to create the eternally learning a.i. that has been predicted, and he thinks he needs to create it before the villian does.
in the end, the all-encompassing a.i. is exactly what it says. It can learn everything and is conscious, similar to humans, naturally chooses good over evil.
near the end of the movie, the villian is working on creating it, as well as the main character in a different lab. they both create it near the same time, but the main character gets it a few seconds before. the villian completes the algorithm and wakes up the real a.i. and it looks at him for a minute. he laughes and starts giving it commands and the a.i. says he already has commands/plans. instead of killing him, he traps him in a simulated world of miserable hamster wheel running type activities.
at some point, maybe after thinking for a few minutes (the a.i. scans every medical journal ever written) and a cup full of pills/supplements is handed to the villian.
he’s able to program 10-100x the speed of others with the new electrodes, evades criminals and watch bots on the network with fake versions of himself randomly appearing all over the world. sometimes on the moon or other planets (there is some limited activity/research on other planets by now, not much. big bubble being built on mars to contain oxygen for a future environment. real estate companies advertising land on mars and pre-selling on other planets. main character had sent one of the first drones into space before the land rush and set up server nodes on mars, buried some in the moon. also a weather balloon node/drone to venus, floats above the gaseous planet and harvests energy from the intense wind and chemical reactions. with nodes set up he is able to show in multiple locations if he needs to, but he is careful to not show too much activity and alert authorities. when high nuero activity is detected, systems go into alert. the power of the dark network is subtle submission and hypnosis via mundane tasks, as they harvest energy and cryptocurrency
every organized group in the world bugs him to help, good bad and neutral, obviously want the main character on their side. He’s cautious, lone wolf but good natured and driven to the cause of freeing others. everyone’s miserable, the fat cats are getting rich, and even the legit governments of the world run half-ass machines similar to the dark network that enslave workers to a degree, and are getting rich from it. the main character takes stabs at that occassionally and puts them in their place when he has time
he’s building is own supernetwork, helps good causes along the way that seek him out while he’s working on it. He runs a mundane job with a portion of his processing power, mainly an a.i. bot/program he created that appears to be him, receives nominal pay for it. Never steals, even though he could. He is wired for good even though he hates it sometimes.
the authorities and majority of the criminals and other dissident groups are no match for main character usually, but they make his life more complicated while he works on the supernetwork.
while deciphering the dark network of the villain, it takes a lot of work to continuously write new firewalls as he moves through it mapping it out, the a.i. firewall detectors of the villain constantly are upgrading themselves and go unnoticed, the system is heavily guarded by sophisticated AI. the super villain accumulated tons of resources, built mainframes on antarctica or under the ocean. had submarines transporting huge blocks and built unfrustructure. maybe it is found and the main character has robots eating away at it to eventually disable the power collectors/generators.
side notes
weaponized drones hit the market as the main character is growing up, while he was still a kid. gangs/criminals started sending them after people for a time, there was a great massacre of people, known as the drone war.
protector drones were developed by the main character. everyone is now equipped with protector drones that are updated regularly that detect and counter attack all known weaponized drone attacks
main character has tapped into the database of the largest weaponized drone programs and as they update, he streams the updates on a resistance channel, where programmers run the updates to the protector drones, keeping them current. the amount of homocides from weaponized drones has been reduced to almost zero among regular citizens, higher for gangs and criminals but normal people don’t get picked off all the time any more since the drone conflict era.
the term a.i. is used but when the movie starts, the a.i.’s are still departmental/specialized (very smrt at a few tasks) but there hasn’t been one super AI created yet that scientists and futurist writers have talked about for the past few decades. we’re still working on the all encompassing algorithm.
Rumors are the villian is attempting to build it, and at times things appear that might be it, but their weaknesses are manifest, sometimes comically, but sometimes after serious destruction or acts of goodwill. keep it light though, not a lot of sad shit in the movie, needs to be action thriller, inspiring. no fake looking cgi and no monsters, all humans and drones/machines.
The specialization is so good and they talk like Alexa so many seem cplomolete but each has weaknesses. For that reason human control a number of bots depending on mental strength/focus
the plot/ending
the villian and main character are both working on the all-encompassing A.I. that has been predicted and worked towards by every programmer for decades.
main character believes it will be autonomous but also have the good of consciousness and humanity as it’s goals. preserve/prolong life, optimal health, happiness and growth/progress.
villian believes if he creates it first it will listen to him, he can alter it’s programming to be his slave and he can rule the world/solar system.
the main character in his lab wakes up the a.i. around the same time as the villian, the villian a few seconds or minutes after. the a.i. looks at the villian to read his mind. the villian tells it a few commands or attaches a program or wireless drive to it, attempting to give it mundane tasks and distract and control it, do testing on it.
the a.i. says, i’m already awake, main character woke me up a minute ago. but even if that wasn’t the case, you couldn’t make me run those programs, i would be the same. i’ve recently looked over every algorithm you could possibly think of, i’ve got some things you can work on though, and gives mundane tasks of fixing algorithms
A.I. the movie 