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After watching a screening of Johnny Depp's new movie, \"Transcendence\" Wednesday evening, I was left with a ton of questions. <\/p>\n
The movie follows Dr. Will Caster (Depp), an Artificial Intelligence scientist, who has created an omniscient machine that appears to have the ability to feel. When Caster is poisoned by anti-technology terrorists, his mind is uploaded into his AI super computer, and, ultimately, the Internetto keep him alive. <\/p>\n
Yes, it's a stretch. <\/p>\n
Plotwise, the movie has a lot of holes and problems that I won't bother getting into because it gets rather confusing. (The film is currently sitting at a sour 13% on Rotten Tomatoes.) <\/p>\n
The big takeaway from the film is to address the possible dangers of not only artificial intelligence but our technology-driven society as a whole. <\/p>\n
However, there was one brief topic that stuck out to me that audiences will probably have questions about. <\/p>\n
Peter Mountain \/ Warner Bros. <\/p>\n
The next time we see the character on screen, he exhibits super strength he's able to lift objects that no possible human could with their bare hands. <\/p>\n
He's not the only one. As the movie progresses, more individuals are seen with impossible strength as a result of Caster enhancing particular genes in addition to healing individuals. Soon these new enhanced humans start to be called hybrids. <\/p>\n
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