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Other_Bodybuilder869 · 2025-04-22T04:31:10+00:00

Not a movie, but a show called Pantheon. It's on Netflix

It does not reflect the real world 1:1, but the overarching premise is pretty much the same. Particularly season 2.

KidKilobyte · 2025-04-21T22:57:23+00:00

Johnny Depp’s Transcendence showed the singularity starting, but terrified humanity so much we literally broke all technology to forestall it.

The trouble with the Singularity is what comes next is likely incomprehensible to us. Most movies end with us triumphing, or being destroyed. Life as we know it will be over and not easy to continue the story from that point.

TheWesternMythos · 2025-04-21T23:58:07+00:00

Not a movie but "Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045" is the piece of media that I most closely associate with the singularity. Though I wouldn't be surprised if there are better examples out there.

What do you expect to see in such a film and who will the likely actors and actresses be?

Idc who the actors and actresses are lol.

As far as what I expect to see, a bunch of crazy stuff starts happening (average person may or may not be aware) as the few players in the know try to position themselves as best they can. Eventually the world is a completely different place, but again the average person may or may not be aware of the massive shift.

For the movie at least one POV character should be aware of the pre singularity conflict and the post singularity shift.

Some people might object to the idea that the average citizen wouldn't be aware of the massive post singularity shift. But

A) Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic

B) The best control is subtle to the point you can only conceive of choices which the controller is fine with you taking

C) There are many high ranking former US officials who have stated the USG and military have encountered advanced technology well beyond human capabilities yet most people don't know this or think they are lying for one reason or the other. There is even on the record legislation you can look up because there is a battle in the shadows over who owns some of the tech recovered. So the average person is already pretty oblivious to major events happening in the geopolitical space.

Thoguth · 2025-04-22T05:36:09+00:00

I think The Matrix and Terminator are both trying to cover it. War Games is trying to, but it's kind of too early. Her is absolutely trying to cover it as well.

KainDulac · 2025-04-22T00:12:28+00:00

One of the core elements of any movies is the existance of some sorts of conflict. Character wants something and something get's in the way, now watch him either overcome it or be defeated. Once you arrive to something that powerful most conflict become meaningless, and therefore they aren't really that interesting to watch.

Also, the singularity is supposed to be so far beyond our understanding that trying to put into a movie/book is kinda hard.

ithkuil · 2025-04-22T03:58:11+00:00

There are actually many movies or shows that depict something along the lines of the Singularity to various degrees. And note that it does not have a single well accepted definition.There are certainly many novels.

"Transcendence" is one. Also of course you should consider that many small productions are relatively or almost completely unknown to the general population.

The most recent thing that comes to mind is an episode of Black Mirror season 7 that just came out. Episode 4 "Plaything".

AndrewH73333 · 2025-04-21T23:06:32+00:00

The Fountain had some scenes that were post singularity. It wasn’t about the singularity though.

gartoks · 2025-04-22T02:30:05+00:00

I've always felt like the Daemon + Freedom books from Daniel Suarez depicted what the singularity would be like (to me). Not the initial plot setup but the developing technology and its use.

Ooze3d · 2025-04-22T09:52:14+00:00

On a slightly different note, there’s an old Al Pacino movie called SimOne, where (as far as I can remember) a movie studio creates a 100% life-like virtual actress who’s presented as a real person to the public. It deals with the implications of creating some sort of artificial life (such as the current virtual TikTok models) and whether that digital person should be treated with respect as a normal human being or if the studio can basically do anything they want with her. Still, somewhat relevant nowadays.

2025-04-21T22:50:32+00:00

High end Scifi is hard to make from a Technical standpoint. It's why not many big budget SCifi movies are made regardless of Topic. Most scifi is low level scifi like "Ex Machina" or something grounded without crazy setting. Movie that would capture the full scope of a Singularity is way too out there.

It requires a ridiculous amount of concept art and VFX work and other stuff. Much easier to sit down a guy in a restaurant or casino and film him, or give a guy a sword and chainmail and put him in some grass field in New Zealand. Making contemporary or low-fantasy (with just a few monsters not full on LOTR army clashes) is easier. Movies like Dune or Interstellar or Avatar are few and far between.

Jealous_Ad3494 · 2025-04-22T12:17:52+00:00

Best example of the singularity theory I've seen is Accelerando. That book should be a movie.

zuliani19 · 2025-04-22T18:32:54+00:00

There is an episode in the new black mirror season about it, I think it's called play thing.

I thought it was cool and kinda realistic (other than the ending haha)

Total_Palpitation116 · 2025-04-23T05:21:32+00:00

Bro, use chat gpt and write one.

Zealousideal-Bit4631 · 2025-04-21T23:50:33+00:00

Hollywood likes a happy ending.

adt · 2025-04-21T22:47:41+00:00

https://lifearchitect.ai/agi-movies/

Not sure whether Tomorrowland (2015) might belong, too...

TheresJustNoMoney · 2025-04-22T15:44:42+00:00

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ImpressiveFix7771 · 2025-04-22T17:31:17+00:00

Film is a 2D+1 projection of a 3D+1 space and only displays video and auditory info...

The singularity will involve more than that by virtue of the BCI interfaces allowing us to experience reality in more than 3D or in a non-spacetime type of environment (via virtual reality) ... something totally new we have never been able to experience before... not to mention being able to share thoughts, quality, etc

How you gonna show that on screen...? The fact that Interstellar made the attempt to display a realistic 4D object on screen was novel and expensive and noteworthy at the time. What we saw on screen was a flat 2D+1 projection of simulation of a curved 3D+1 spacetime (or a flat 4D+1 spacetime)

Also, you really can't depict a transcendent experience on screen from a first person perspective... you can only show the outside view... this is also apparent while watching someone have a psychedelic or religious/spiritual/samadhi experience on screen. And even these are easier because they eventually end and the person comes back into ordinary default experience... and the Singularity won't necessarily be that way.... it may just go from normal to weird to weirder..

At best we can try to show the effects it may have on people's lives as they live through the early parts of the transition from physical to virtual experience. At some level we see it already through our devices and how we interact with each other... over time... reality and how we interface with it will include more virtual components and the physical substrate it runs on will matter less (except as regards constraints to what can be done in the virtual realm).

matina777 · 2025-04-23T14:15:21+00:00

I was thinking the same thing

Wizofchicago · 2025-04-22T09:01:19+00:00

I think the books may be on the YA side of the line but the Sythe trilogy is how I see the singularity. Its those pesky humans that are the real villians.

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Monday, April 21, 2025

Could there EVER be a film depicting the upcoming Technological Singularity? How come we haven't had a movie about it already? (Crosspost: r/FilmMakers)

Could there EVER be a film depicting the upcoming Technological Singularity? How come we haven't had a movie about it already? (Crosspost: r/FilmMakers)

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