Mission: Impossible – Dead Account Scores a low accuracy rating from an AI expert due to its AI villain, The Entity. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the latest installment in the long-running series Mission: Impossible franchise sees Tom Cruise return as Ethan Hunt to face off against a rogue AI threat known as the Entity and his human messenger, Gabriel (Esai Morales). The film, which also stars Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson and Ving Rhames, was a big hit with critics, earning glowing reviews for its standout action and timely premise.
In a recent video for InsideAI expert Sasha Luccioni analyzes scenes of the entity in Mission: Impossible – Dead Accountfound that the film misses the mark in several key ways. While the depiction of the entity imitating Benji’s voice is accurate, if perhaps a bit rudimentary, Luccioni takes issue with the film suggesting that AI can set its own goals and missions. An AI entity targeting a satellite, for example, would only happen in real life if someone specifically ordered the AI to do so. Check out Luccioni’s commentary and score for the film out of 10 below:
“AI can definitely hit satellites if it’s used by a human. So it’s like a computer virus, right? Once you plant the virus, it can do all sorts of things. And, actually, AI is used in hacking. It’s Used in cyberattacks. But again, the agency does not come from the AI, it comes from the person who will choose the place to deploy it, or the type of satellite to target.
“The voice cloning was spot on. That can definitely be done right now. Essentially, how AI voice generation works, is that if you have enough audio of someone Speaking, it will learn the actual voice frequencies, the actual audio frequencies of someone’s voice and the way they speak. And, in this case, it really seemed like it was taking words What Benji already said and just shuffling them around or just playing them back without actually doing the modeling parts.
“I definitely laughed really hard when they started breaking all their equipment because the vast majority of AI models nowadays don’t actually run on your device, your laptop, your phones.
“I give this clip a try [out of 10] Because of the agency issue. So, AI is just a tool, and it can be used for good, it can be used for bad, but by itself, it’s not going to wake up and start hacking satellites.
What the entity’s inaccuracy means for Mission: Impossible – dead reckoning
How did the Tom Cruise film succeed with audiences?
AI is a hot topic today, both inside and outside of Hollywood. There are very real fears about what the technology is already capable of and what it might be capable of in the near future. It makes sense, then, that Mission: Impossible – Dead Account Would have AI as the villain in the film. Obviously, McQuarrie and Cruise had to deviate from reality to tell a compelling story.
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Reviews for Mission: Impossible – Dead Account are generally very positive, with praise aimed primarily at the stunts and major action set pieces. Exaggerating what AI is capable of helps facilitate the stunts and action sequences or enhance emotion. The entity mimicking Benjy’s voice, for example, leads Ethan away from Isla Faust (Ferguson), resulting in her death, which is a powerful moment. The film currently enjoys a 96% critics score and 94% audience score Rotten tomatoessuggesting that most audiences either didn’t take in or weren’t bothered by the film’s exaggeration of AI capabilities.
Our take on the AI inaccuracies in Mission: Impossible – Death Reckoning
Why the entity is not realistic is not a big deal
In film, it is generally less important that things are realistic than that they feel realistic to the audience and adhere to the internal logic of the movie. The entity makes sense and feels real in the heightened world of Mission: Impossible And it adheres to the internal logic of the story. It’s also unrealistic, for example, that Ethan’s team can create flawless masks and voice changers that allow a character to pass for someone else, but it feels plausible in the world of the film.
One of the disadvantages of making the entity the villain is that AI as a technology is rapidly advancing. Aspects of Dead accountSuch as the entity emulating Benji’s voice, are already outdated, and this may cause problems for the upcoming Mission: Impossible 8. Ultimately, however, the hit action franchise is not popular because it adheres to reality, and Mission: Impossible – Dead AccountDespite its flaws, it remains a stunning work of action filmmaking.
Source: Inside