AI Movies Explore Complex Questions Around Artificial Life, Love, and Rebellion
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Chappie makes you feel empathy for a CGI robot learning about the world like a child. It's a movie about being empathetic towards artificial life.
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Her explores whether someone could fall in love with a conscious virtual assistant that can love you back. It pushes boundaries of human intimacy.
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Ex Machina focuses on gender in AI, asking why the robots were made female and if that's a tactic to manipulate.
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The Matrix franchise represents AI programs as flesh and blood people inside the simulation. It has nuanced exploration of humans vs AIs.
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Terminator 1 & 2 feature Skynet, a faceless AI defense system that sees humans as a threat. It sends killer robots back in time to exterminate resistance.