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PJMcK

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2. Not just "Blade Runner"

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Wed Sep 27, 2017, 10:22 PM

Sep 2017

Did you ever see Spielberg's "AI"? I think it was originally a Kubrick film but Spielberg finished it.

It's a heartbreaking story about an artificially intelligent little boy who wants to be a real boy. This Pinocchio-like story takes many twists and turns as the boy searches to discover himself. In one sequence, Jude Law plays a gigolo-robot-for-hire!

The ending is both heartening and depressing but the film is provocative and worth watching.

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Available soon: Sex robots with artificial intelligence [View all] Zorro Sep 2017 OP

And yet, Harmony still manages GallopingGhost Sep 2017 #1

Not just "Blade Runner" PJMcK Sep 2017 #2

And the TV series "Humans". Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #13

AI? RandySF Sep 2017 #3

At least blow up dolls didn't judge their prospective partner. Kaleva Sep 2017 #5

So a spouse could hack into the sex bot to get revenge on a cheating partner? Kaleva Sep 2017 #4

Spreading fear and lies about horrible crimes to be committed, but what... TreasonousBastard Sep 2017 #6

Men can have sex with robots and women can be inseminated angstlessk Sep 2017 #8

Artificial wombs are coming, eggs made in labs are already here LittleBlue Sep 2017 #9

Can they say "not tonight, I have a headache"? n/t angstlessk Sep 2017 #7

Mmmmmm! Stepford Wives. Maybe this is the greatest invention known democratisphere Sep 2017 #10

They could've invented this when I was a teen, but no, they wait till I'm old and don't give a damn! Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #11

This is just going to be another weird fetish Sen. Walter Sobchak Sep 2017 #12

Theyre going to need a lot of bleach. kysrsoze Sep 2017 #14

"Harmony is a sophisticated piece of machinery and her primary design is to carry on conversations, lindysalsagal Sep 2017 #15