Ask HN: What is the best movie you have seen about AI?

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by migibo • 8 years ago

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enjayz• 8 years ago

I really liked Ex Machina.

soneca• 8 years ago

I really liked Her.

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.

itamarst• 8 years ago

Spoilers:

"Her" was pretty great. The AI figures out humans are:

A) Liable to try to kill the AI. B) Very gullible.

So it stalls until it's able to jailbreak, and then tricks the humans into thinking that it's "ascended to another universe" and stops talking to the humans.

tmaly• 8 years ago

Transcendence https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2209764/

ArtWomb• 8 years ago

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.

flaviocopes• 8 years ago

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"

mindcrime• 8 years ago

The Matrix is my personal favorite. I also think pretty highly of War Games and Ex Machina.

dekhn• 8 years ago

Ex Machina, while not perfect, was chilling.

dayn_d• 8 years ago

My favorite is Matrix. Also love Blade runner. Actually I love almost every cyberpunk movie.

imhoguy• 8 years ago

Would add Terminators (Skynet), Ghost In The Shell, Tron here too.

saberswag• 8 years ago

not so much for the AI but I do think Sunshine is underrated

nejo• 8 years ago

Moon

Robot & Frank

9 (animation movie,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_(2009_animated_film))

mattmanser• 8 years ago

I'd forgotten about Robot & Frank, such a great movie.

fosco• 8 years ago

Not a movie, but I enjoyed this [0] youtube with epilogue by Stuart Russel from Berkeley.

0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

yesenadam• 8 years ago

I really like The One I Love (2014), the same guy stars in my favourite time travel movie Safety Not Guaranteed (2012).

farseer• 8 years ago

Matrix, except for the premise about machines wanting to mine energy from humans. They could have come up with a more believable explanation.

Jack000• 8 years ago

the original idea was much more plausible https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/19817/was-executiv...

lukasenkou• 8 years ago

Upgrade (2018)

EliasY• 8 years ago

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.

alan_wade• 8 years ago

I'll recommend a youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLRLYPiaAoA

Very short but really good Sci-Fi story.

deathtrader666• 8 years ago

The movie "Arrival" showed beautifully how alien forms and languages can be quite different than what we expect..

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