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Post by bkim on Sept 10, 2008 23:55:56 GMT -5
A.I. does have so much humanity. It's about a robot child designed to feel love. The crux of the story is what happens when that love is not reciprocated. It has very startling dynamics between robots and humans, and A.I. is very much like WALL-E in that the robots seem to experience more compassion than their human counterparts. Ignore the mixed reviews; people were confused about the ending, but I already gave it away, so you might as well see it.
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Post by AtomicGreymon on Sept 11, 2008 0:33:30 GMT -5
The first time I saw AI, I didn't really care for it that much, and (surprisingly, for me), I didn't really fully get the ending... though I was 18 when I first saw it, so I can't exactly claim I was that young, lol. However, my only defence is that I missed some bits of it and I think I was fairly distracted during the end so I probably missed some dialogue. Upon subsequent viewings, though, I've realized that it's actually quite a good film. And once I'd thought about it, and realized what those things at the end actually are, my opinion of it rose more. My only issue with it is that I don't believe true emotion can be programmed into a being... in David's case, it was literally hardwired and entirely static once set. IMO, emotion is more of a very odd evolutionary quirk that develops in sufficiently complex minds. I've no doubt AI is possible, and that an artificial neural net will eventually be created. However, like any human infant, it would be a blank slate after first activation in terms of personality and emotion... aside from a little bit of firmware that governs how the mechanisms actually work (and hey, even humans have an organic equivalent to this).
Of course, David was only v1.0, and his "descendants" were more human (at least, in what it means to be truly human) than any of the human characters in that film and many people I've met in real life. It's definately worth a watch.
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