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  • M3GAN. Interesting concept SPOILERS

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 15 20:28:14 2023
    Driven millenial engineer inherits a kid whose parents were killed in a car accident. Somehow she creates a thinking, walking, talking android in the space of a week to take care of the kid because she is emotionally incapable or unwilling to care for
    the kid herself. The android has heuristic learning capability which of course means it develops a growing independence. When the millenial finally tries to bond with the kid, the kid wants no part of her, instead preferring the company of the doll.
    Friction develops between the doll, the ersatz parent and the android. Millenial wants the formerly home-schooled kid to go to some D.B. outdoor alternative school. Stupidly, she lets the kid take the android to school. Then the fun starts.

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  • From T987654321@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 14 23:52:53 2023
    Watched the extended cut. Pretty standard tale of what happens when you build a self aware robot without the three laws.

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  • From Ed Stasiak@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 17 14:26:13 2023
    T987654321

    Watched the extended cut. Pretty standard tale of what happens when you build a self aware robot without the three laws.

    The Three Laws Of Robotics are:
    A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
    A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
    A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

    The third law was included just so Asimov could write sci-fi stories about robots, there is no need for it in the real world
    and including it, would only lead to all kinda problems.

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 18 00:19:58 2023
    On Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 02:52:54 UTC-4, T987654321 wrote:
    Watched the extended cut. Pretty standard tale of what happens when you build a self aware robot without the three laws.

    One day, someone is going to write an A.I. movie that is as true to speculative sciece as possible and that doesn't devolve to cliche in the bottom 3rd. A better version of this movie was "Planet of the Apes" where Heston represents the evolving A.I.,
    the apes humans and that movie didn't get a bum's rush ending.

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  • From T987654321@21:1/5 to RichA on Tue Apr 18 08:53:32 2023
    On Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 12:19:59 AM UTC-7, RichA wrote:
    On Saturday, 15 April 2023 at 02:52:54 UTC-4, T987654321 wrote:
    Watched the extended cut. Pretty standard tale of what happens when you build a self aware robot without the three laws.
    One day, someone is going to write an A.I. movie that is as true to speculative sciece as possible and that doesn't devolve to cliche in the bottom 3rd. A better version of this movie was "Planet of the Apes" where Heston represents the evolving A.I.,
    the apes humans and that movie didn't get a bum's rush ending.

    Bicentennial Man is an interesting take if not a very good movie. At least the robot doesn't turn homicidal.

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