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Hi,
AI is a good kids movie, Pinocchio updated. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but because i knew it was a Spielberg, i left my brain in the car. Which helped.
I waited to read the threads here, about the movie; until after i had watched it. The sheer artificiality of the plot is worth yakking about. Early in the film, Hurt pops an intelligence module out of a robot; about 5 minutes later we are being told this new robot is to be "imprinted" and has to be destroyed if it's relationship with it's owners is ended. Huh? Ducks get imprinted, computers get programmed.
There are a dozen reasons why no one would build that way. But the whole movie is like that, analyze almost any part of it, and it colllapses like a house of cards. But that spindly structure is needed to make humans (read grownups, or at at least a child's perspective of anyone older) look bad. You can make a reasonable case that adults are not sufficiently serious about their relationships. But in the show, the need to drive that point home results in the child robot David being such a clearly flawed design that it diminishes what is supposedly the theme...AI.
There is a Star Trek:NG episode that handles this well, #35 'The measure of a Man'


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Topic - Artifice + Intelligence - late 22:24:00 07/14/01 (10)


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