[alicebot-aiethics] AI: The Movie

[Richard Wallace]

It may be the first movie in history about which we can say, "The web site
was better than the movie."

Rich
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robby Garner" <meo1@bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 8:11 AM
Subject: [alicebot-aiethics] AI: The Movie


> 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.
>
>
>
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