He is uncomfortable in giving out his identity, but he also ready to get his hands dirty. If we move past his secretive nature, Finch is the leader and moral compass to the entire team. There is also no apparent motivation as to why he is so inclined to protect his true identity and it had never been made clear by the showrunner. There is a page in fandom if you want to see how many identities of his that are known or mentioned throughout the series. John Reese lost his identity due to his redacted military record, but Finch deliberately created multiple identities to stay hidden. But Finch went above and beyond in protecting his identity. This might not came to a surprise that a man who invented a surveillance system is paranoid, I think it’s still fresh in our memory when Mark Zuckerberg was shown to cover his webcam.

There are a few things that we can already infer from the first episode though, about him being A VERY PRIVATE PERSON (I’m sorry I can’t help myself). Even towards the end, I think it’s impossible to truly decrypt his personality as a whole. To say Harold Finch is complicated character is an understatement. Just keep an open mind that it might not be a complete psych eval, but hopefully enough glimpses to show you that The Machine has a soul, or its AI counterpart. And it might be a herculean task, to say the least, but I will try my best. It also show decisive maneuver that can be considered as betraying its purpose as, you know, machine. And I will try to make a superficial personality analysis on The Machine, because it might not be immediately obvious to define The Machine as a “character” while it’s clear that The Machine evolves during the span of the show. It is impossible to talk about Harold Finch without The Machine. But since John Reese took a bit longer than what I expected, and to delve into Harold Finch’s psyche will guarantee another week of procrastination, I had to put the two in different segments. Fair warning, I was going to put this part along with John Reese in the first post as it seems to be more fitting to talk about the core team in one coherent writing. 'Normal' here might include atypical behavior that may be considered strange by community standards, but does not indicate premeditated violence.īasically, taking the human heuristics of intelligence analysts and getting an AI to do similar, and then better.After a long talk about the other half of Batmanized protagonists in Person of Interest, we are finally going to meet the “rich and genius” half of the duo. From this, the Machine has to figure out what patterns of behavior are 'normal', relevant, non-relevant, etc. Now that you have all this raw information, Finch's magic and one-man industrial revolution come into play. Natural language processing can be seen in IBM's Watson but improved greatly from tuning before the match against Rutter and Jennings.

To track a person from place to place, you could use face recognition, gait recognition, electronic device location, vehicle plate tracking. Gait analysis could be used to enhance this. This takes correlating multiple 2D video feeds with a 3D space model drawn from multiple sources.įacial recognition has been in the news for antiterror applications. In the segue transitions, airline flights, water traffic, restricted areas, among others are highlighted. It also takes into account financial actions, vehicle movements, etc. PoI's Machine extracts meaningful information from video feeds, such as people's movement. Machine vision, facial recognition, pattern matching, and natural language processing would need major breakthroughs (unless, of course, said breakthroughs have been done and are just secret/classified).

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