[alicebot-aiethics] AI: The Movie

[Robby Garner]

I finally got a chance to see AI last night. Geeeez! What a bummer.

If we are going to build true AI, why bother if people are going to treat
them like dirt?

Aside from evoking that question (or doubt), I have to say that Spielberg
may have tried to imitate Kubrick's camera work and directing style (to some
degree) but I wish Kubrick had lived longer.

I think AI: the movie would have been better as a suspensee thriller than
what we saw, which was a disturbing Pinnocchio meets the superbots complete
with Grimm brothers narrator, and a script that was so full of artificial
plot devices that there was no consistency in the characters to grab hold
of.

In my humble opinion of course.

Although AI, the movie, never gave any social context for us to know why
people hated these machines, other than natural human cruelty, I harken back
to Asimov and his stories about social prejudice against machines that were
taking away people's jobs and livelihood.  This kind of explanation seems
more plausible, but I found little to grab hold of in the Spielberg attempt.

Your mileage may vary.

Robby.