Artifice + Intelligence

Films/DVD Asylum

Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

66.30.228.171

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'

This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:

Amplified Parts

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

posted below .. - Mart 11:09:44 08/06/01 (0)

I seem to have a deja vu of a film called 'Bicentennial Man' - Dman 14:35:38 07/17/01 (0)

Re: Intelligence & Prediction - geoffkait 07:48:11 07/17/01 (4)

Re: Intelligence & Prediction - caa 22:34:04 07/20/01 (0)

Just one disaster after another - Bruce from DC 10:26:31 07/18/01 (0)

That article in the Washington Post... - clarkjohnsen 13:38:57 07/17/01 (1)

Re: That article in the Washington Post... - geoffkait 17:33:00 07/17/01 (0)

Pinocchio? - clarkjohnsen 10:52:13 07/16/01 (2)

may have seen it over 30 years ago, will try and find a copy, thanks! --nt-- - late 14:59:51 07/16/01 (1)

Japanese laser or old VHS. n/t - clarkjohnsen 13:39:46 07/17/01 (0)

You can not post to an archived thread.