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I didn't get out of this movie what some of you are. I suppose I'm looking at it more on a philosophical level because certainly there are crazy AI...or are they? In fact, Asimov anticipates the protective nature of robots to protect humanity as a whole with his Zeroth Law. Later taken to a different level in the "Killer Bs" sequel series, where robot factions obey different parts of the three(4) laws. The red indicator light has become something of a joke...the red indicator light was not indicating that the robots were evil. In fact, they weren't. The red light indicates that the wireless uplink to the manufacturer is active. It's seen earlier during a software update, but later on the "Evil" robots have all been taken over, and are all being controlled remotely by the positronic superbrain Vicki that runs the manufacturer's building systems, that came up with the zeroth law. You could easily say the robots HAVE A POINT as well, we're too biased as humans to really see this any other way. So my impression is the movie actually starts with robots being accepted by humanity...with robots just different enough to avoid the "uncanny valley". The AI decides we need help and guidance...ok great, it's not Skynet really, it wants to preserve us (see Hans Marovec). Humans obviously can't accept this even though it may work to our benefit, so the AI is destroyed. The central character (Will Smith) has been biased against robots all along...in the end, despite what has happened, he supports the decision of Sonny to develop himself and other robots..which I see as a central point of the movie. When is a robot human ENOUGH to be considered human? Obviously you all missed these things because it dared to tackle an Asimov tale. If it makes any of you more comfortable, the movie states: "suggested by" a collection of Asimov stories instead of taking any one for a literal interpretation. So ultimately, the result of the film is we should be happy ANYTHING by Asimov got adapted so well, got good reviews, and almost made $400 million. This has to be good for other projects from Asimov to be made. Foundation is in the works I understand.
I didn't get out of this movie what some of you are. I suppose I'm looking at it more on a philosophical level because certainly there are crazy AI...or are they? In fact, Asimov anticipates the protective nature of robots to protect humanity as a whole with his Zeroth Law. Later taken to a different level in the "Killer Bs" sequel series, where robot factions obey different parts of the three(4) laws. The red indicator light has become something of a joke...the red indicator light was not indicating that the robots were evil. In fact, they weren't. The red light indicates that the wireless uplink to the manufacturer is active. It's seen earlier during a software update, but later on the "Evil" robots have all been taken over, and are all being controlled remotely by the positronic superbrain Vicki that runs the manufacturer's building systems, that came up with the zeroth law. You could easily say the robots HAVE A POINT as well, we're too biased as humans to really see this any other way. So my impression is the movie actually starts with robots being accepted by humanity...with robots just different enough to avoid the "uncanny valley". The AI decides we need help and guidance...ok great, it's not Skynet really, it wants to preserve us (see Hans Marovec). Humans obviously can't accept this even though it may work to our benefit, so the AI is destroyed. The central character (Will Smith) has been biased against robots all along...in the end, despite what has happened, he supports the decision of Sonny to develop himself and other robots..which I see as a central point of the movie. When is a robot human ENOUGH to be considered human? Obviously you all missed these things because it dared to tackle an Asimov tale. If it makes any of you more comfortable, the movie states: "suggested by" a collection of Asimov stories instead of taking any one for a literal interpretation. So ultimately, the result of the film is we should be happy ANYTHING by Asimov got adapted so well, got good reviews, and almost made $400 million. This has to be good for other projects from Asimov to be made. Foundation is in the works I understand.
