From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 07:10:23 MST
Miriam English wrote:
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> Condemming Spielberg's vision for having pretty icing doesn't stick either.
> He got the topic on the agenda of ordinary folk. It saddens me that he
> scared a lot of them... but at least he did get it out there and showed
> people how mechanoids could have *real* internal lives. This is important.
There is something else which I at first didn't get and I have not seen
in anybody else's reviews of the movie: Spielberg seemed to make it
clear that the errors, failings, and shortcomings of the AI were all
actually caused by human beings, NOT the AIs themselves. The boy's
errors were all due to incomplete or malicious programming by its
creators or by the returning cryo-child. The point of the gladiator
sequences was to really illustrate that the technology itself isn't
evil, it is humans who do not have the capacity to properly appreciate
and use AI technology. Even the creator of the boy was hopelessly
blinded to the boy's real needs by his own hubris.
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