Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?
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Transcendence
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209764/
Ex Machina, while not perfect, was chilling.
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.
Moon
Robot & Frank
9 (animation movie,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(2009_animated_film))
Robot & Frank
9 (animation movie,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(2009_animated_film))
I'd forgotten about Robot & Frank, such a great movie.
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.
And early 1980s War Games holds up as a terrific thriller. Depiction of fictional AI pioneer Professor Falken is very realist in its treatment.
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"
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"
I'll recommend a youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLRLYPiaAoA
Very short but really good Sci-Fi story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLRLYPiaAoA
Very short but really good Sci-Fi story.
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Matrix, except for the premise about machines wanting to mine energy from humans. They could have come up with a more believable explanation.
the original idea was much more plausible
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...
Not a movie, but I enjoyed this [0] youtube with epilogue by Stuart Russel from Berkeley.
0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
I really like The One I Love (2014), the same guy stars in my favourite time travel movie Safety Not Guaranteed (2012).
The movie "Arrival" showed beautifully how alien forms and languages can be quite different than what we expect..
The Matrix is my personal favorite. I also think pretty highly of War Games and Ex Machina.
not so much for the AI but I do think Sunshine is underrated
Upgrade (2018)
I really liked Ex Machina.
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.