Americ: Are you A.L.I.E one?
Sandrine: Or A.L.I.E two? Hi everyone I'm Sandrine,
this is Americ.
Americ: Hello.
Sandrine: Today we have a special The 100 video.
Americ: Yes.
Sandrine: We wanted to talk about A.L.I.E one and two,
and the City of Light, because of the big revelation that happened in the last episode.
Americ: Which if you haven't watched, go watch it,
go watch our review, and then come back to watch this, because it's going to make a lot
more sense. But, before we continue make sure to subscribe so you don't miss any of our
The 100 reviews. With that said, let's go.
Sandrine: Let's start with A.L.I.E one. What do we know
about her? We know that there were too many people according to her so she decided to
launch a strike, or what is it? Nuclear strike, on the world, that killed everyone. I mostly
have questions.
Americ: Okay.
Sandrine: I mean we know that she created, or she's
in the City of Light, what she calls City of Light. Now is that something that she created,
or that was always there? I don't know, but I guess it all ties into what her original
purpose was.
Americ: Yeah, and I think the original purpose was
corrupted, which was why her maker Becca had to flee, and just protect herself from A.L.I.E
one so to speak, and then essentially improve on the code. What is interesting now is has
A.L.I.E one evolved, or is she still on her original mission?
Sandrine: Yes, has the years of being on Earth, has
that changed her? Is her purpose now different than it was originally?
Americ: It's very interesting, right? Because we don't
know really what was her original purpose. We know there was too many people, but was
that the beginning and the end of it? Or was that the beginning of something, and there
was a further purpose? Like, my theory, of what she's trying to do, she's trying to finish
the job.
Sandrine: Yeah ...
Americ: I think she's trying to finish the job, but
not just kill, I think she's going to try to finish in a different way by just taking
over what's left of humanity, and uploading them into the City of Light, which is where
she believes where humanity will truly-
Sandrine: Yeah, which is what we kind of talked about,
it's like you're becoming more of a matrix, but matrix without the actual body being tied-
Americ: Yep, exactly.
Sandrine: Anywhere, so she wants to upload everybody's
spirit or consciousness, and that's why she says, "No one dies in the City of Light, because
we're all going to live in the AI." I think she hasn't really thought about what happens
if her ... The AI gets destroyed.
Americ: I think that's the thing, I think that's why
she wants A.L.I.E 2.0, because in her mind A.L.I.E 2.0 is what is going to preserve and
make it function, right?
Sandrine: Why though?
Americ: Okay here's what I think, I think she knows
that A.L.I.E 2.0 is a better version of her, and if she can hack into that version and
change it to her own specs, she's going to be able to grow and thrive. Now, what she
maybe doesn't know and understand is what A.L.I.E 2.0 is. Which brings us to what is
A.L.I.E 2.0?
Sandrine: Yes. A.L.I.E two, not A.L.I.E 2.0.
Americ: I like saying 2.0.
Sandrine: A.L.I.E two came from Becca trying to fix
a mistake she didn't with A.L.I.E one, and it's supposed to empathize with humanity,
because it is really humanity, it can't ... I think it can't survive without us, meaning
it has to be in us in order to work right?
Americ: Yeah, but I think it's even further than that
in my opinion. My theory is that A.L.I.E two is like what you would consider to be a background
program. It's a machine learning implanted in you that's supposed to keep gathering information
while not actively just doing ... Actively manipulating the owner of that person. It's
like gather information, learn, know more, and then when the time comes, activate. Wouldn't
that be a way to explain why basically A.L.I.E two is not a sentient being? I feel Lexa is
Lexa right? Lexa wasn't like, "I was A.L.I.E two all along." No, and I don't think that
Lexa even remembers the original commander which was Becca.
Sandrine: Well yeah, that was going to be my whole thing
about the commander spirits, like if we're going to talk about the commander spirit,
it seems like it serves a purpose, because it needs to be passed from person to person,
but how much does it affect you I guess is the question, because I don't know if it doesn't
affect you at all, I think it does affect you, but I don't think that you remember what
happened before-
Americ: No, no no.
Sandrine: I don't think it's like the doctor were having
memories of everyone type of thing.
Americ: Yeah I don't think it's a Doctor Who thing,
I completely agree with that, I don't think it's one of those things that you have the
memories and all that. What you do is have principles, I think it's a principle builder
machine. It builds on principles on what you learn, and this life is passed onto the next,
and the next commander builds upon that, and then gets better, and better, and better,
which hearkens to the whole machine learning aspect it. That's actually a smart way of
building an AI, right? We always think about an AI in the idea of A.L.I.E one, but clearly
that was a failure, because you cannot teach everything you need to teach an AI that's
completely autonomous and sentient. What you need to do is make them-
Sandrine: Part of it.
Americ: Part of you-
Sandrine: Dependent on you.
Americ: On you, and you want them to just keep thinking,
and thinking, and thinking-
Sandrine: Could still take you over though eventually
when they're like, "Oh ..."
Americ: Not take you over. You're collaborating, basically
there's a level of collaboration that has to exist, and I think right now that level
hasn't happened, yet. Which is why I like the fact that it's all coming together right
now. Now is it going to come in this season, where it's all where we're going to see A.L.I.E
two take over? You know what it makes me think of?
Sandrine: Okay?
Americ: Stargate.
Sandrine: Okay.
Americ: Not the Goa'uld, this makes me think of the
Tok'ra from Stargate, where there is a-
Sandrine: Sort of parasite.
Americ: There's a parasite that-
Sandrine: That co-lives with you.
Americ: That co-lives with you, and I think that the
AI is going to co-live with you, where, "I can't live without you, but I'm not going
to impose my will on you." I think that's-
Sandrine: That's interesting. There's a couple of things
that were said in the last episode, including, "Those who live on within me as I will live
on within you." So Lexa said that to the potential new commanders. I don't know if that's just
more of a spiritual thing that she says, because she thinks that their spirit in that little
box thing, or if she actually can feel their presence. Then also, she told Clarke, "Next
commander will protect you." Now is it because she told him to protect Clarke, or because
there is this influence in the code that because Lexa really cared for Clarke then you end
up kind of caring for the same people that the person before you cared for?
Americ: Okay so there's part of that, but I think
there's also this person is good for my mission, for what I'm trying to accomplish, and I think
Lexa saw that and was actually trying to espouse Clarke's ideals, and just try to change the
system. She's like, "I think this person is good, they need to stay and influence the
program further." And that's setting another principle in saying, "From this day forth,
Clarke shall be protected."
Sandrine: Then also Titus said, "May her spirit choose
wisely." As In like the little AI thing will choose. Now will it actually choose ... Like
is there something in someone and us that it's looking for, like a specific genetic
thing?
Americ: Well there is a genetic thing right, with
the blood aspect of it?
Sandrine: Well that's what I'm saying. Is there a reason
for the black blood? Is it because of the radiation that Becca received when she landed
on Earth?
Americ: It's possible-
Sandrine: Then there's a reason why ... Maybe all her
descendants? You have to have that's what a genetic, because you have to be from Becca?
Americ: I don't think you need to be a descendant,
but you do need to have that marker. Which it's possible.
Sandrine: What do you mean?
Americ: what I think is even more interesting here,
is remember when Clarke and Lexa were in bed and Clarke was asking her, "How many people
were in your group, and what happened to the eighth person?" Do you remember? They were
having that conversation in bed.
Sandrine: Yeah okay.
Americ: And she's like, "Oh I don't want to talk about
it." I don't think Lexa was the first person that the spirit picked. I think the spirit
samples, and if it sees there is something wrong it will reject you.
Sandrine: Interesting.
Americ: I think this is how the next spirit is going
to choose, it's going to sample maybe Aden, and we're going to think-
Sandrine: Well it's simple, but then you have to cut
in the neck of everybody you're sampling?
Americ: Yeah, but this is why a lot of people think
that it actually might not go to Aden, but might go to the other person who's from the
ice nation.
Sandrine: But what happened to her though, because she
was the ice queen's prodigy, but the ice queen is dead.
Americ: She clearly had skills right? She might just
be like, "Pwaah! I'm the new commander bitches!" I don't know, maybe it's going to be like
a foil, but it ends up being Aden or the other way around. This being The 100 you never know.
You never know where this is going to go. I find this storyline ridiculously fascinating,
it has pieces of Stargate in there, some person of interest added in there too. I'm loving
it, this is great for me. I don't know about you, but I love it.
Sandrine: I just love how that little side story [inaudible
00:10:12], oh his crazy suit of light, what the hell is going on there? Kind of like became
the best story of the show.
Americ: Yeah, that was a nice trick-
Sandrine: And, also a lot of people are talking about
nobody dies in the City of Light, so-
Americ: So.
Sandrine: Do you need to be important before you die,
or are you important, or is she already important because she's in A.L.I.E two, you know Lexa.
Americ: I think it's even more interesting, because
it's possible that there's no import needed, like there storage. Maybe Lexa's personality
is stored in that-
Sandrine: That's what I said.
Americ: Yeah, so many questions indeed, but those
were all our thoughts. What are your thoughts on A.L.I.E one, A.L.I.E two, or 2.0, and-
Sandrine: I like A.L.I.E two.
Americ: Where this is all going to go. Who do you
think is going to be the next commander? Comment below, and let us know.
Sandrine: We hope you like the video, thank you so much
for watching, and we'll see you for the next The 100 review.
Americ: Bye!