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

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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.

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.

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

Ex Machina, while not perfect, was chilling.

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.

Moon

Robot & Frank

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

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

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.

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"

I'll recommend a youtube video:

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

Very short but really good Sci-Fi story.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I really liked Ex Machina.

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