Summary Of Sully And The Imitation Game

In this article, Thompson’s uses chess anecdotes to make it easier to understand why technology and our brains work together best. Steven Cramton and Zackary Stephen were two New England men who beat the most powerful chess computer. “Why could these relative amateurs beat chess players with far more experience and raw talent? Because Cramton and Stephen were expert at collaborating with computers. They knew when to rely on human smarts and when to rely on the machine’s advice.” (345) This experience shows us that Thompson's thinks that when it comes to technology versus man, you don’t

A hero resolves problems, knows what is important, and is smart. Sully is a clear example of a hero. In January 23, 1951 Chesley Burnett ‘Sully’ Sullenburger was born in Denison, Texas, where he got interested in flying when he saw military jets at Perrin Air Force Base, which was close to his home. At age sixteen, Sully could fly an Aeronca 7DC. He served in the military 1969 until 1980. During 1980, Sully joined US Airways, and was piloting flight 1549, which was later deemed the Miracle on the Hudson. During the Miracle on the Hudson, Sully faces the task of saving 155 passengers with the aid of First Officer Jeffery Skies, and succeeds. The public then hailed him as a hero. The problem in Sully’s situation is saving people on the plane,

For my critical feminist lens, I will be answering the question ‘How are men and women (masculinity and femininity) portrayed differently in the text?’. I intend to explore the portrayal of both men and women in the film ‘The Imitation Game’ directed by Morten Tyldum. Furthermore, I believe that the film portrays the patriarchal structure that is the basis of the portrayal of men and women.

One of the hottest topics that modern science has been focusing on for a long time is the field of artificial intelligence, the study of intelligence in machines or, according to Minsky, “the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men”.(qtd in Copeland 1). Artificial Intelligence has a lot of applications and is used in many areas. “We often don’t notice it but AI is all around us. It is present in computer games, in the cruise control in our cars and the servers that route our email.” (BBC 1). Different goals have been set for the science of Artificial Intelligence, but according to Whitby the most mentioned idea about the goal of AI is provided by the Turing Test. This test is also called the

“We’ve given our children everything that they have wanted. Is this our reward-- secrecy and disobedience?”(Bradbury). In the futuristic short story, “The Veldt,” written by the the well-know author, Ray Bradbury, two parents, George and Lydia have purchased a house with artificial intelligence; as a result, it has done everything for them and their kids, Peter and Wendy. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is known as any work brought forth by technology-- including machines, computers, etc.— and is becoming more relied on by the human race. According to Or Shani, the CEO of Adgorithms— the first company to develop and use AI for marketing— dates signs of AI back to Ancient Greece; however, for a long period of time, it was overlooked and not valued much (Shani). As we

Using ethos, pathos, logos, and other rhetorical techniques in non-fiction and science fiction, help the author carry different and similar claims regarding artificial intelligence making the author’s message change between the two genres. In Robopocalypse, a science fiction novel written by Daniel H. Wilson, the protagonist Cormac Wallace narrates the story with first and secondhand testimonies, information accumulated from interviews, and camera footage. At the opening of the book, Cormac gathers the stories from a black box of the robot uprising, beginning the story of how ordinary technology turned into an automated war. The sci-fi novel informs the audience that artificial intelligence can effortlessly turn against their human creator to deliberately achieve the annihilation of the human race implicating “technology changes, but people stay the same” (Wilson 261).

They are nimble. They are shrewd. They are tenacious. Everyday more robots with artificial intelligence are being created with the sole purpose of making human lives easier. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, describes a future where machines are a basic part of the citizen’s lives, and that time where resourceful robots and humans are able to coexist in harmony is rapidly coming. Intelligent machines push humans and automatons towards a world where machines can help humans in low level jobs, where machines and humans can explore together, and where machines and humans can save lives together.

Sully and The Imitation Game are set apart more than 50 years, individually examine the phenomenon of surviving against all odds, and the fascination the public has with any such hero. Mutually Eastwood and Tyldum develop this theme in presenting their characters as national heroes. Eastwood’s story of protagonist Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger depicts how ex-army now commercial pilot, ditches a plane in the Hudson river as an emergency landing, saving everyone on board. The essence of this story is that not only is Sully cast as an instant national hero, but ironically is revealed behind the scenes as somewhat of rogue and accused of endangering lives. Clearly, the fascination from the public of Sully is not always shared from those behind the

The movie, The Imitation Game, follows the story of a remarkable and brilliant English mathematician, named Alan Turing, who helped win World War II, all the while hiding aspects of his life to succeed. In 1939, during World War II, Germany used a machine called Enigma which sent encrypted radio messages with military instructions, it was primarily used to sink English convoy and passenger ships. During this time, Turing is hired by the commander of the Royal Navy with the task of decoding the encrypted messages. This mission is deemed impossible, however with his strong determination, Alan devises a plan to construct a machine to beat the “crooked hand of death”. After two long, hard years, Alan, with the assistance of five other brilliant

A stimulating film exposes the fallacy of Britain’s corrupt and homophobic culture throughout the Second World War.

The quotes above and those similar however, begin to lead the reader towards another far less obvious, perhaps even subliminal, moral that underlies this tale, and this is a very human tale that encompasses those individual stories that more often than not remain hidden in the noise. Kidder paints for us a vivid picture of U.S. corporate dynamics in the world of high-tech, but once this background scene is set, he then begins to assemble against it the individual characters who will play out this human drama.

During World War II, Nazi Germany killed around 20,946,000 men, women, and children from multiple countries and backgrounds (R.J. Rummel). This war was just as horrid and unthinkable as any other. Millions of people suffered, towns were destroyed, and society lived in an all-consuming fear. Germany was successful with most of their plans of destruction, and part of that came from their unsolvable Enigma code. Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician, worked with other intellectuals to figure out how to crack it. They were triumphant. Although the end of WWII can be attributed to many things, Alan Turing’s solving of the Enigma code was what allowed the Allies to have the ultimate advantage because they could understand German plans and war

When Warner Bros. released “Sully” earlier this year, I thought it looked decent. I assumed Tom Hanks would give a reliably good performance as the titular pilot. I guessed Clint Eastwood would tell the story effectively. I even speculated that the film might garner some attention from the Oscars. While I cannot yet speak to that less assumption, my other feelings about “Sully” proved true.

Morten Tyldum, the director of the film, explains that what caused him taking up on this project was the fact that “[Alan] did all these amazing things, and he’s in the shadows of history. It’s all because he has this shameful ending as a gay man, where he’s ridiculed and his work suffered” (Castillo, Monica). If it were not for Turing, laptops, ipads, and other forms of technology would not have existed without the concept of computer science, and it definitely would not have been as advanced as it is today. On a side note, Alan Turing had cracked the Enigma with the help of another mathematician, Gordan Welchman, but cracked Germany’s naval Enigma single handedly (Hodges, Andrew). In effect, this shortened the war by two years, which in turn saved millions of people’s

When the movie Sully first came out, it received a wide range of mixed reviews from both critics and normal movie goers alike. Although everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not everyone agrees with what other people think. Because Sully is a movie that is based on a true real-life event, society has mixed reviews about how the movie was played out because it was based on a real event. Three movie critics gave their thoughts on the movie and each one has different views then the other reviewer does on the producer of the movie Clint Eastwood, the captain, Sully, National Transportation Safety Board, and the co-pilot, Jeffrey Skiles, whom will all be seen in this essay. Sully will go down in history as the movie that had both a wide range of reviews and also told the story of a government agency trying to put the blame on a worldwide hero.