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Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?

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Post by soneca »

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?

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Post by itamarst »

soneca wrote: post #3

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.

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?

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Post by ArtWomb »

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.

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