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In Reply to: A.I. (long) posted by Troy on July 04, 2001 at 14:46:18:
As far as I have been able to determine from what other people have observed in the movie, the creatures/beings at the end of the movie were actually "advanced robots," which definitely changes the thesis of the movie quite a bit, I think; but the question remains whose robots were they? They could have been survived from a time when humans were still around, or they could have been created by other robots, an interesting way to view it. Another possibility: the advanced robots could have been created elsewhere. It is not clear, to me anyway, why the advanced robots were so curious about the meeting at the end, where that was supposed to be and where David went at the very end, if anywhere.
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I believe the beings which made David's dream come true were advanced, earth-based mechas. I think it stands to reason that the mechas of David's time would have evolved/advanced enough to recreate their own kind. Or the robot scientists would have eventually learned how to build a robot which could not only learn but self-replicate.The sci-fi/mathematics writer Rudy Rucker has many novels dealing with this very subject. I recommend his four-book Wares series (Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware).
Yeah, self replicating robots is a pretty interesting theory as to who those skinny guys were at the end of the movie. Common in Phillip K. Dick's books and infact, was the premise of "The Terminator" flix, albiet with negative implications instead of the benevolent scientific curiosity of the beings at the end of AI.The theory that robots with emotions and the ability to self replicate/repair is actually the next step in human evolution is commonly being discussed in think tanks today. Saw a fascinating documentary on this exact subject a few months ago on PBS. I'll buy into the idea that this is probably what was being depicted in the film.
John W Campbell wrote about that in the 20's or 30's. Check his story "The Last Evolution" (or was it "final"?). Also wrote about benevolent robots in his story "Night". Several anime have also explored these concepts, Armitage III OAV's (hopefully they will get these on DVD someday) for example. Ghost in the Shell, touched on a few of these ideas as well, though the manga goes much deeper into the nature of consciousness and identity than the movie. Wouldn't surpize me if we have a black project somewhere trying to work up a rudimentary version of Keith Laumer's dinocrhome brigade... sentinent battle tanks (remember reading his story "The Last Command" in history class eons ago... I was always reading everying but what I was supposed to be reading).
here's link to the 1999 press release for NEC's lovable robot that gets along very well with people...http://www.nec.co.jp/english/today/newsrel/9908/3101.html
Kawaii desu! They look like a fusion of Totoro (http://www.totoroproject.org/) and the kids on South Park. (^-^)
That was my impression too, but I don't remember it being explicitly stated that they were earth-based. It just makes a stronger case for the motivation in life forms to seek out their creator and ask the ultimate questions, rather than just to study them as subjects of foreign archaeology.
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