Good Day! I just want to petition how Samaritan works just like in The Machine. Also a brief background on Samaritan History as well.
Hoping to see a clash of these 2 A.I System in the future episodes of POI.
Good Day! I just want to petition how Samaritan works just like in The Machine. Also a brief background on Samaritan History as well.
Hoping to see a clash of these 2 A.I System in the future episodes of POI.
The game of chess has been a recurring motif in POI. It was either season 2 or 3 when Elias and Harrold enjoyed their weekly meetings over a chess board. Perhaps now the game is being played between Samaritan and The Machine.
In tonight's episode, "The Devil You Know", it appears to me that Elias had already put his "rope-a dope" plan into action prior to being informed by Reese that NYPD computer files on Elias' activities and associates had been stolen by Dominic and The Brotherhood. The early scene in which Elias meets with his accountant - and Scarface- seemed designed to pull the brotherhood into that trap.
The staging in that scene also suggests that the accountant might be, and has been the real number 2 to Elias all this time; Scarface was the number 3.
This is probably all just coincidence. I don't think it means anything.
On the subject of Sargon the Second - as I recall - his actual Assyrian name was Sharru-Kenu, which means 'legitimate King'.
According to the Ency. Britannica, "Although Sargon’s ancestry is partly veiled in mystery, he was probably a younger son of Tiglath-pileser III and consequently a brother of his predecessor Shalmaneser V, who may have died ignominiously or may have been deposed. It was for Sargon to resume the conquests and to improve the administration of the empire his father had begun to assemble."
Can't also be possible scenario, that Samaritan is going to evolve to the point, it will see his admins as irrelevant or even threat, and turn against Greer and Decima? At this point Greer would have to call Finch for help and together with Machine they would fight it off. I guess that would be fight for almost whole another season. There's no way someone can control something so powerful.
The machine may and Samaritan may have already merged - in a way. In "Search and Destroy," Samaritan failed to find unrecognizable, unique code that would be the machine on any networked device on the planet. Perhaps it is because Samaritan didn't scan it's own servers because it recognizes it's own code. But what if it's own code is also the machine? The servers that hard-coded Samaritan to ignore the identities of team machine. We know that the machine must have some link to allow root to have new identities. Perhaps it has also funneled itself into Samaritan. Samaritan is based on evolutionary algorithms and neural nets. It's mutating and evolving because of small changes in its code by such mechanisms. This would explain how it can't link the identities to the members of team machine - because at startup the server's codes all merged, activated, and began evolving. It is possible that the machine is now using that same mechanism to funnel it's code into Samaritan's core code, therefore they have merged - just not in the same running code set. Samaritan looks at changes in its code that have become second nature. It knows it is evolving, and that it's neural nets and dna will evolve. How would it suspect that anything is running on the other side of the code?
In short, the only explanations I could think of as to how Samaritan failed to find the machine on networked devices on earth are that it's running on a quantum computer, it's a ghost of a Machine died and came back to haunt, its nodes are not on earth somehow, or it is inside of Samaritan's servers. Which seems more likely? Any other possible explanations as to where the machine is, or how it has evaded Samaritan for so long?
asset #2054: in a word,WOW!!! so many ideas/theories,it was wonderful reading them all!!! l'am of the opinion,that at the end of the current story arc,that both systems will eventually merge...
How is Samaritan the Evil one? The only difference between the 2 is that the Machine cares for its core team, while Samaritan and Greer both agree that Decima is only a tool meant to serve Samaritan. Samaritan hasn't purposefully done anything to harm humanity, and it has no reason to.
All that Samaritan wants is to rule justly over its subjects and build a better future for humanity.
The machine's job is to simply locate people in danger and protect them, a job Samaritan shares.
Were Samaritan successful, the machine would be wiped out and Samaritan would rebuild earth, Decima would reach into all world governments, all heads of state would be chosen by Samaritan and as such be the best candidates humanly possible. education and law would be revolutionized to improve all level of living worldwide.
there would be no hunger, poverty, illiteracy, lack of employment(if so desired) , lack of shelter or the chance to experience all that life has to offer.
We'd live in a welfare state where everything would be done for us, you'd not want for anything.
Of course, since Samaritan is a psychopath(doesn't feel any emotions of longing) It wouldn't hesitate to engineer the human population with selective breeding and eugenics, it may even declare zones for experimentation, playing with society and populations for the fun of it(like it did in that small town)
The machine would not play with mankind, because it feels for them, Samaritan would be great at his job, but it doesn't really care about humanity.
l don't think Samaritan is truly evil... it sees the world in black and white,while the Machine sees things in shades of gray,and like you said,it cares...
Sometimes I feel like Greer's intentions for the world are/were benevolent, but highly misguided. I feel sorry for the guy;
But one person (or thing) should not be allowed to be judge, jury, and executioner - especially not a computer algorithm.
Most of us forget what society was like during the Age of Absolutism when "divine right" kings believed they knew what was best for everyone.
Evil requires intent, as does good. Neither Samaritan nor the Machine is either -- they're machines, incapable of emotion or intent. The intent is on the part of the persons using them. Mass killings using the data provided by Samaritan, for whatever agenda it serves, is evil. Period.
When is the New Season coming out? Was the show Cancelled? I can't get any proper news from anywhere!!!
We don't know anything more, and this thread isn't about the new season.