I, Gobot

[oneirophrenia]

Oh my fucking Omega Points, I, Robot is the coolest fucking movie ever made. Not just an exciting (and oftimes very humorous) action film, but also an EXTREMELY insightful film dealing with a lot of transhumanist issues and ethical concepts involving AI. Ten times more brilliant than I ever expected it to be.

I'll write more later when my head isn't still spinning from how cool it is.

Ohyeah, new musical project in the works now too: 3 Laws Safe.

Comments

[alternakittyn.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I will use this info to try to get Andrey to take me.

[eolh.livejournal.com]

I'm so torn on that film. On the one hand, it looks really cool. On the other hand, it has so little to do with Asimov's actual book that I find it offensive that they would use the title and what little bits they did. The book would have made a great, albiet very different, film which we'll probably never get to see because they did this. If they really wanted to write a movie about a robot war, they could easily have done so without touching the Asimov, or maybe even found something that would have made more sense to license. I'll probably see it, and probably enjoy it, but I'm still very disappointed.

[oneirophrenia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the film really doesn't have much to do with Asimov's book *at all*--but, at the same time, it takes a number of the concepts that the Good Doctor came up with and fully updates them for a contemporary audience, taking into account a LOT of the concepts of AI ethics and whatnot brought up lately by transhumanist thinkers like Ray Kurzweil, Nick Bostrom, and even Vernor Vinge. I see the film more as a "variation on a theme" of Asimov's, and I find it to be a *much* better film for that. The novel I, Robot is now pathetically out-of-date, and would make a much better anime than it would a film designed to appeal to a much broader, more mainstream audience. Generally, when people do this it just pisses me right the fuck off (case in point: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein), but in *this* case I think the scriptwriters and the director did the right thing in recreating I, Robot from the ground up to make it more relevant to the general public, because *they* are, after all, the "ignorant masses" who could very well suffer from a Robot Holocaust if they don't wake the fuck up and realize what kind of tech concepts are breathing down their necks even now.