Re:Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?
by soneca on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:06PM
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I really liked Her.
The future they created (in general, not the AI) seems very plausible to me in a lot of details.
As of the AI itself, I really like Her description of it too. Software-only and more self-interested that world-destruction. But I think it is hard to be plausible. No one seems to have any idea of how it would look like if we accomplish a true AI.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?
by itamarst on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:11PM
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Spoilers:
"Her" was pretty great. The AI figures out humans are:
A) Liable to try to kill the AI.
B) Very gullible.
So it stalls until it's able to jailbreak, and then tricks the humans into thinking that it's "ascended to another universe" and stops talking to the humans.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?
by EliasY on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:06PM
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HAL from 2001 seems to be the most grounded in reality, as you could actually sense some how some of its advanced capabilities might be implemented even today, not to mention Marvin Minsky and IBM were advisors to Kubrick. While I really liked TARS and CASE from interstellar for their "settings" feature and for being non anthropomorphic in form.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?
by ArtWomb on Monday September 10, 2018 @04:27PM
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Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey still sets a high bar. The scene right before intermission where HAL is reading the astronauts lips in the pod is still quite terrifying.
And early 1980s War Games holds up as a terrific thriller. Depiction of fictional AI pioneer Professor Falken is very realist in its treatment.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?
by flaviocopes on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:52AM
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2001: A Space Odyssey is probably my favorite film ever. Our IT teacher made us watch it as part of the computer science classes (awesome teacher).
Very recently Seth Godin talked about it in his podcast, pointing out the poor reviews it got from the press. The argument was "don't worry about criticism, people even criticized that amazing movie, how can you escape criticism"
The future they created (in general, not the AI) seems very plausible to me in a lot of details.
As of the AI itself, I really like Her description of it too. Software-only and more self-interested that world-destruction. But I think it is hard to be plausible. No one seems to have any idea of how it would look like if we accomplish a true AI.
"Her" was pretty great. The AI figures out humans are:
A) Liable to try to kill the AI. B) Very gullible.
So it stalls until it's able to jailbreak, and then tricks the humans into thinking that it's "ascended to another universe" and stops talking to the humans.
Robot & Frank
9 (animation movie,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(2009_animated_film))
And early 1980s War Games holds up as a terrific thriller. Depiction of fictional AI pioneer Professor Falken is very realist in its treatment.
Very recently Seth Godin talked about it in his podcast, pointing out the poor reviews it got from the press. The argument was "don't worry about criticism, people even criticized that amazing movie, how can you escape criticism"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLRLYPiaAoA
Very short but really good Sci-Fi story.
0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA