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Comment author: MileyCyrus 02 November 2012 01:22:54PM *  11 points [-]

I, Robot is a stupid movie, but I'll always remember what Will Smith says to one of the robots:

"You are a clever imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? … Can a robot take a blank canvas and turn it into a masterpiece?"

Not even a decade after the film's release and robots are already writing symponies and turning blank canvases into masterpieces.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 02 November 2012 01:42:33PM 25 points [-]

I like the robot's response:

Can you?

Even if robots fail to reach the peak of human capability, so do most ordinary people.

Comment author: Randy_M 02 November 2012 02:42:58PM 6 points [-]

And if you specify more than one capability, nearly everyone does.

Comment author: FiftyTwo 02 November 2012 04:02:55PM -1 points [-]

Interesting when contrasted to this exchange:

You see... a carpenter, making a beautiful chair. And then one of your robots comes in and makes a better chair twice as fast. And then you superimpose on the screen, "USR: Shittin' on the Little Guy". That would be the fade-out.

I suppose your father lost his job to a robot. I don't know, maybe you would have simply banned the Internet to keep the libraries open.

Comment author: MixedNuts 02 November 2012 03:36:48PM 5 points [-]

I don't know much about painting, but aren't these, well, ugly?

Comment author: FiftyTwo 02 November 2012 04:01:09PM 5 points [-]

I think its underrated, if it hadn't been sold as an adaption of Asimov I suspect people would have loved it as a moderately clever scifi thriller (in the same vein as minority report and the matrix).

It tackles a lot of themes in interesting ways that aren't normally shown, e.g. I like that the main character is portrayed as a bit of a luddite, but thats not shown to be the best view; and it examines the social impact of robotics a lot more than normal. If anything it gives an optimistic view of robots and a grim one of humans, but YMMV.

Comment author: Raemon 02 November 2012 04:43:23PM 7 points [-]

I actually liked the movie quite a bit. The antagonist follows a really weird and bad strategy for the sake of creating an action movie (a much subtler take-over of humanity would have made far more sense). But I think it's a decent stab at Friendly AI difficulty, in a way the general public can understand - you can give a machine several rules that theoretically make it perfectly safe for humans, but those rules can still have ramifications you didn't expect, leading to actions you wouldn't have wanted.

Agreed that if it wasn't called "I, Robot" it would have been "better."

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