) a good story and all tied into the overarching plot at the end via the awesome scene between Root and Greer.

Mr. Emerson went on to tell the interviewer, towards the end of season three there is a darker side to Finch than we have previously seen before. In a courtesy clip from CBS from the previously aired episode 3×15 Last Call, the perpetrator was a mysterious voice over the phone who Shaw (Sarah Shahi) described as being Finch if he were evil.
While most of us do believe Harold Finch has been a truly good guy, everyone on POI has been shown in shades of gray. What events will happen as we head to the conclusion of season three to bring out more of that evil counterpart? Not necessarily bad, but harder.
So I've heard other users around here asking about why the machine considers Samaratin could be a threat. Fact of the matter is, Samaritan would be a pretty formidable target if it were indeed strong AI, or, as they call it in the show, genetic programming. One would think that the machine would be able to surmise ways to nip Samaritan in the bud--it has not done so. Is this a flaw in the machine's abilities, a second-too-late incompetence from our protagonists, or is this something the machine actually intends to happen?
My prediction is that at the end of the season, it'll become clear that the machine--having had so many multiple generations of reprogramming itself, improving itself with hard AI--has anticipated the events that are unfolding this season and has allowed Samaritan to be built only to assimilate it. Think about it, the machine has a clear software advantage over Samaritan if it was built and put online in 2005: it's has so much time to rewrite itself. Samaritan is only a baby in the software department but now has state-of-the-art hardware. Samaritan is the perfect target for a predatory machine to advance itself and maintain dominance.
Essentially, Decima Tech has become a pawn for the machine. They're a means to acquire cutting edge hardware and allow the machine much greater performance. If the machine is indeed a sentient being, what else would it strive for but progress? Perhaps we will come to see that in some ways, the machine values its own personal progress over the safety of human beings. That would be some strong AI.
Sounds like the excrement will hit the fan if the Machine is forced off-line or the team is cut off from information. Makes me curious as to what Root is tasked with doing now. I'm thinking the team of hackers she helped assemble will come into play soon.I'm curious what the multiple mass casualty events are and if they will be touched upon.
born Augusta Ada Byron and now commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Her notes on the engine include what is recognised as the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine. Because of this, she is often described as the world's first computer programmer.
Sounds like the excrement will hit the fan if the Machine is forced off-line or the team is cut off from information. Makes me curious as to what Root is tasked with doing now. I'm thinking the team of hackers she helped assemble will come into play soon.
Sorry to barge into this thread, but if I'm a big Nolan fan, would this be a good show to start watching?

Oh yeah, for sure. I just need(ed) the push to watch it really, haha. Thanks.
Though if anyone else has a response, I'm open to those, too.
I may just start watching this though.![]()


Haha, indeed I do. I guess I'll probably start watching then.
Plus I love Jonathan Nolan so this should be fun. How is the show formatted exactly?