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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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where the speakers are thin but the music is anything but
Except that Robin Williams was a better actor.
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The best science fiction has the most truth in it, they used to say. One aspect of A.I. that has been totally overlooked is the premise for the opening sequence - the submerged NYC scene. We are numb perhaps to predictions of doom and gloom, and downplay the global warming warnings of the "left-wingers" - I suppose we are comfortable in the thought that science/government will save us from disaster, but the catastrophic effects of global warming might be more real than we imagine. See article in Wash Post today (link below), maybe there is more going on that meets the eye WRT global warming. Maybe there is more going on in A.I. than meets the eye as well.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4748-2001Jul16.html
with the rate that we're going, i think that humans will do something stupid (make sure Bush doesn't push the wrong button accidentally), or outconsume this planet before any significant inventions happen, such as robots of this caliber.
"Out of Oil" (1970s)
"Nuclear winter" (1980s)
"Y2k" (1990s)
"Global Warming" (2000s)See a pattern here?
Tell me this, Geoff: If scientists' ability to predict now whether next winter in a particular region of the US will be cooler than average, warmer than average or just average is a little better than a coin toss (i.e. 50% chance of being correct) -- which it is -- how can these same scientists do any better at predicting the global climate 10 years from now?
That all this stuff makes great news copy and great movies does not mean it's a sound basis for spending billions of dollars and disrupting or dislocating the lives of 100s of thousands of people.
I do agree that its bad public policy to subsidize (through flood insurance) the construction of $1+ million vacation homes on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. But that's because of hurricanes, not because I think the whole place is going to be under 20 feet of water.
guess we should take this Outside, huh, since it's kinda off-topic.
To me it reads like anti-American claptrap.clark
Not quite sure what you are driving at...if you think the Post is anti-Bush or anti-Republican historically are might be right, not clear that's the case with current admin., (yet). People used to say that those who said we need to get rid of the smog and clean up the air were anti-American or commies, at least anti-corporate America, as I recall. DC had an absolutely horrendous pollution problem when I was living here in early 70s, which I experienced first hand, so I suppose I sympathize with the anti-smog folks.
I saw it more as Song of the South, perhaps Disney's greatest movie -- for proof, look no further than that it is effectively banned in our Politically Correct world.If you haven't seen SotS, it concerns a young lad very much misunderstood and essentially unloved by his (white-bread) parents, who is taken under wing by a smart (black) dude.
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