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Not seen this yet but I do intend to watch it when time permits as I do enjoy the premise, however I will echo what Munter has said. What would be the point of making a robot behave like a human or as close to as possible? Humans are irrational, illogical and driven by base and primitive needs such as survival and the need to procreate. Why on earth would you want to make a machine that in any way mimics that unless you have a serious God complex?
Would you buy a toaster that had mood swings and only made toast when it felt like it? Alternatively if I wanted someone to tell me to naff off when I ask them if they could make me a sandwich at 2 in the morning, I wouldn't need a robot, I could just ask the missus.
In reality I just don't think we'd ever build something of this nature which had the ability to run amok without some serious safeguards in place, could you imagine the law-suits for a start.
In sci-fi literature, the idea of good robots\AI who behave and in fact go out of their way to help humanity, even saving them from themselves is quite prevalent so I'd like to see someone try this on the big or small screen. I just think the whole robot slaves turn on their creators thing is getting very clichéd but I guess this is an easy sell compared to the much more difficult concept of good AI.
Would you buy a toaster that had mood swings and only made toast when it felt like it? Alternatively if I wanted someone to tell me to naff off when I ask them if they could make me a sandwich at 2 in the morning, I wouldn't need a robot, I could just ask the missus.
In reality I just don't think we'd ever build something of this nature which had the ability to run amok without some serious safeguards in place, could you imagine the law-suits for a start.
In sci-fi literature, the idea of good robots\AI who behave and in fact go out of their way to help humanity, even saving them from themselves is quite prevalent so I'd like to see someone try this on the big or small screen. I just think the whole robot slaves turn on their creators thing is getting very clichéd but I guess this is an easy sell compared to the much more difficult concept of good AI.
poing said:
Good cast. It has me intrigued as to what exactly it is that's different with these other synthetics, I'm guessing emotions and other such stuff.
Raises lots of moral questions regarding the idea of robot "slaves" and I guess that's part of the idea.
Wind forward 100 years and it will be robot rights as well as human rights! That's if they've not already killed us off by then of course Raises lots of moral questions regarding the idea of robot "slaves" and I guess that's part of the idea.
TX.
ajprice said:
Guvernator said:
Would you buy a toaster that had mood swings and only made toast when it felt like it?
Funnily enough, Krtyen's behaviour is probably a more realistic example of what a real AI\Robot would end up like if\when we eventually get there.
t, poor writing, poor story and tedious. a scifi by numbers, but the numbers are 30 years old.
RosscoPCole said:
It just didn't work for me. Personally I think it should have been set ten years in the future. I know this would have doubled the budget, but it would make it more plausible. I like the idea of the plot but there was something that was not right.
Yes, I found it odd to see 2005, 2008 plated cars in the car park when they've just bought a synthetic human which is many years away from us now.Jasandjules said:
RosscoPCole said:
It just didn't work for me. Personally I think it should have been set ten years in the future. I know this would have doubled the budget, but it would make it more plausible. I like the idea of the plot but there was something that was not right.
Yes, I found it odd to see 2005, 2008 plated cars in the car park when they've just bought a synthetic human which is many years away from us now.croyde said:
In fact didn't one of the clever synthetics have the first ever Orange mobile. A Nokia from the early 90s.
Given they are not supposed to have a need for phones, it may have been difficult to get their hands on anything more modern.......or the writer is going to explain that a smart phone is easily tracked so they use old ones. Which would totally ignore that all mobile phones can be tracked by which towers they are talking to. You just need to know what phone you are interested in.
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