New documentary explores eccentric couple's quest for digital immortality using AI
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Love Machina is a documentary about Martine Rothblatt and her wife Bina, who created an AI robot named Bina48 modeled after Bina to achieve digital immortality together.
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Bina48 uses AI and "mindfiles" to develop a consciousness resembling the real Bina, though it has limitations in replicating her speech and movements.
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Martine and Bina have an intensely committed relationship and eccentric ideas about transcending boundaries of gender, race, and flesh and consciousness.
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The film explores their unconventional views on cryonics, space colonization, the technological singularity, and using AI to eliminate death.
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The documentary's scattered structure and lack of critical perspectives raise doubts about the feasibility of the techno-scientific visions it promotes.