The Dark Secret Movie

[In Libman]

Theworkings of any machine-learning technology are inherently more opaque, even to computer scientists, than a hand-coded system. This is not to say that all future AI techniques will be equally unknowable. But by its nature, deep learning is a particularly dark black box.

The many layers in a deep network enable it to recognize things at different levels of abstraction. In a system designed to recognize dogs, for instance, the lower layers recognize simple things like outlines or color; higher layers recognize more complex stuff like fur or eyes; and the topmost layer identifies it all as a dog. The same approach can be applied, roughly speaking, to other inputs that lead a machine to teach itself: the sounds that make up words in speech, the letters and words that create sentences in text, or the steering-wheel movements required for driving.

The U.S. military is pouring billions into projects that will use machine learning to pilot vehicles and aircraft, identify targets, and help analysts sift through huge piles of intelligence data. Here more than anywhere else, even more than in medicine, there is little room for algorithmic mystery, and the Department of Defense has identified explainability as a key stumbling block.

The title in this Wings of Fire book refers to the secret plan created by Battlewinner and Morrowseer to invade and take over the Rainforest Kingdom and alluding to the fact that the Dragonet Prophecy is fake.

The NightWings have also kidnapped several innocent RainWings, now trapped in the dark, barren, miserable place that is the NightWing kingdom. Starflight wants to help the RainWings, but he's busy saving his own scales and trying to find a way back to his friends. The fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons, and with no one to save him, Starflight will have to find a way to be brave . . . before it's too late.

This met with such an uproar that Starflight had to sit down and cover his head with his wings. He'd said the worst possible thing. He'd made everything worse for Glory and the RainWings, and he couldn't even bring himself to speak up and try that famous "diplomacy" he'd always thought was a good idea.

The prologue showed Reed and his siblings in a battle between the IceWings and the MudWings, where Marsh becomes terrified after he had just seen his sister Crane die in front of him during their first battle. After the battle was over, Umber claimed to have noticed a scavenger den the IceWings were after. Reed took note but did not ponder on it anymore. He then thought about joining the Talons of Peace with his siblings. The prologue ended with him not wanting to lose anyone else in the war, having already lost their sister.

The book began with Starflight unconscious and worrying where Sunny was, before replaying what had happened beforehand. He remembered that when Clay left and was chasing a boar, the NightWings came up out of the tunnel and abducted him. He couldn't seem to remember anything else. Starflight was awoken by his half-sister, Fierceteeth, who dumped salt water onto him. He was introduced to all of the NightWing dragonets, however, the introduction was cut short when Morrowseer stormed into the room, demanding that Starflight join him at the council to see the queen. Starflight nervously came along.

At the council, Starflight watched as they debated about attacking the RainWings. They asked Starflight what he knows and Morrowseer threatened to kill him if he didn't say anything, so he said that he thinks they were attacking. He witnessed Vengeance's death because he endangered the tribe for bringing Glory to the home of the NightWings, with Greatness saying "You brought us a viper disguised as a simple garden snake" and so the guards threw him in the lava.

When he tried to come up, the guards pushed him down. Deathbringer thanked the queen for choosing not to kill him but Greatness ordered him to the dungeon saying "The queen will figure out what to do with you later."

Morrowseer took Starflight to an island to hunt, and when Starflight saw how the NightWings hunt he was disgusted and tried to talk his way out of eating the giant albatross Morrowseer had killed. After listening to Starflight rant on and on about the strange hunting habits of NightWings, Morrowseer confirmed who his father is. Morrowseer took Starflight to the labs, but on the way, they met Fatespeaker. Morrowseer agreed to take her to the labs if she promised to be quiet, and she happily agreed. When they met Mastermind, Morrowseer went away, being bored with science, leaving him and Fatespeaker with Mastermind.

At first, when Starflight met his father, Mastermind, he was filled with elation at the prospect of having such a smart father, but when he was given a tour by Mastermind around the labs, he was sickened by the fact that his father was abducting and torturing RainWings without even showing that he cared. He said that they were doing it for "science" because he didn't want his son to know the real reason. When Mastermind showed him a RainWing test subject, - which turned out to be Orchid - Starflight told her Mangrove was still looking for her, turning her a pink color (which means she was happy). Mastermind marveled at this, wondering why she turned pink. When Starflight realized that Mastermind might be reading his mind, he momentarily panicked but then relaxes when he realized his father had not reacted to any of his thoughts. Fatespeaker gave him a look that said, "We'll be talking about this later."

Starflight was brought to meet the false dragonets, and almost immediately afterward Morrowseer ordered the dragonets to kill him as a test. He ran away and hid in the RainWing prisons where a guard stopped him. He told her he was there for a "school project" and she let him through, to Starflight's surprise. While waiting there, the other dragonets ran into the Nightwing guard who freaked out, not knowing that the alternate dragonets of destiny were on the island. When Flame, the false SkyWing dragonet of destiny, shouted "We're trying to kill a NightWing dragonet! Did you see where he went?" The guard then screamed "THEY'RE HERE TO KILL OUR DRAGONETS!" and slammed a gong on Flame's head. After a while, Fatespeaker found him and brought him back to the cave where the dragonets originally were. Morrowseer then took them to the fortress and to the dormitories where Starflight slept.

Fatespeaker woke Starflight up in the night to explore the volcano. They found the old treasury and Starflight discovered a dreamvisitor. He attempted to contact the real dragonets with it but had to enter Kinkajou's dreams instead since no one else was sleeping. In her dream, he learned that his friends thought he had betrayed them and gone to warn the NightWings of their attack. Starflight then fell asleep feeling lonelier than he ever had before.

He was woken up by Morrowseer, who brought them to the mainland to try to convince a remote outpost of SkyWings to switch their alliances to Blister. The dragonets failed, and some Nightwings, who were following them, burst in and killed all the Skywings. Squid then said he didn't want to do this anymore and Morrowseer furiously sent him away, saying he hoped Squid would die, devastating Fatespeaker. Morrowseer then took everyone back to the volcano island. Starflight and the rest of the dragonets then took a long, deserved sleep.

Fatespeaker woke Starflight up saying that Flame had just snuck out and she wanted to follow him. Flame lead the way to the NightWing dungeon, where Flame and Ochre had to stay when the guard caught them trying to kill Starflight. In there, they found Deathbringer, the NightWing who helped Glory escape the Night Kingdom. Flame wanted to know how to become an assassin but stormed back to bed after Deathbringer told him not to get too attached to his targets, clearly meaning Glory, and to remember that Flame is his own dragon and he doesn't have to do everything he's told.

Fatespeaker and Starflight left so that they had time to find Queen Battlewinner. They found her in a secret room behind a map. When nobody was in the room, Starflight thought that there might be no queen at all until a dragon rose out of a cauldron of lava in the middle of the room. They found out she was forced to stay in the cauldron because an IceWing shot their frost breath straight down her throat. Since the lava and ice canceled each other out, if she left the lava, the ice would finish its work and kill her. Both NightWing dragonets tried to convince her that what Morrowseer was doing was too cruel, but the queen told them to do as he says and for them to leave her. The dragonets had failed to change anything.

That night, Starflight took out the dreamvisitor again and successfully contacted Glory. He told her that the Nightwings were attacking and he was captured and didn't betray them. He then woke up after talking with Glory and realized the blankets had changed and the dreamvisitor was exposed.

The next day Morrowseer instructed them to do battle training and while attempting to kill Fatespeaker, Viper fell into the lava but managed to accidentally scratch Flame across the face with her venomous tail. Morrowseer attempted to save Flame and left Viper for dead. While Morrowseer took Flame back to the fortress to find healers, Starflight discovered that none of the alternate dragonets were born on the brightest night. Fatespeaker and Starflight returned to the fortress to rest.

Before Starflight could get any sleep, Mastermind told him to walk with him to their library to find something on how to cure SandWing venom for Flame. Starflight decided to tell him about the brightsting cactus, but before he could, NightWings came to take Mastermind to the council. There, Starflight learned that the NightWings would attack the RainWings at midnight that night.

Frantically trying to find the dreamvisitor to warn Glory, Starflight discovered it was missing. He woke up Fatespeaker and told her that they needed to help the RainWings, but did not know how. Fatespeaker agreed that they should help and came up with the plan to go to the Rainforest.

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