Recently, I believe that everyone has been brushed by ChatGPT, and people are both happy for the rapid development of science and technology, but also can't help but feel a little panic - to what extent can artificial intelligence develop? Will human jobs be replaced? What happens if artificial intelligence generates human emotions?
In fact, these issues have long been explored in many literary and film works. In 1927, the first film depicting the relationship between humans and robots, "Metropolis", was released, which caused a sensation and became a landmark work in the history of science fiction. Since then, the imagination about artificial intelligence has endured, and the well-known Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" has become the norm for the relationship between humans and robots, influencing generations of creators. Human imagination, in this field, continues to make breakthroughs, in addition to paying attention to science and technology, ethics and morality, but also constantly paying attention to the intimate relationship between humans and intelligence.
Today, we will recommend 8 films about "artificial intelligence" for you, maybe you can find the answer you want.
1
"Machine Butler"
Bicentennial Man
（1999）
The film was born in 1999 and comes from the original book of science fiction master Asimov, which perfectly matches the early human imagination of "artificial intelligence robots". "Andrew" in the film is the latest model butler robot in the future world, he has a powerful algorithm and is polite, and can do everything from cooking and cleaning to taking care of children. Later, the man discovers that Andrew seems to have his own personality, so he teaches him the knowledge of human society, and Andrew soon becomes a different, self-thinking robot.
The story revolves around Andrew's evolution. When he had a mind, he began to pursue freedom and pursue love. When he discovers that everyone will grow old and die, and only he is trapped in eternal life, he embarks on a long effort to "become human." This story is full of warmth and love, and in many places it is a classic, and humans and robots do not have to be a mortal battle in the end, but they can also become relatives and lovers for life. "Machine Butler" is many people's first impression of "intelligent robots", and it has also become the most successful adaptation of Asimov's works. The English name of the film, Bicentennial Man, means "two-hundred-year-old man", and Andrew in the film is more like a two-hundred-year-old man than a machine.
2
"Artificial Intelligence"
Artificial Intelligence: AI
（2001）
If "Machine Butler" is an imagination of warmth and love, Spielberg's 2001 "Artificial Intelligence" that became popular all over the world is a reflection of sadness and pain. Many people's earliest recognition of the term "artificial intelligence" (AI) came from this movie.
The movie tells the story of the future world, where humans can easily make various intelligent robots to work for humans. Among them, the robot child "David" was created to fill the emotional gap of humans who have lost their children. He looks exactly like a real child, and his mission is to love human beings and never change his heart. David was adopted by a family whose child was seriously ill, but the family's own child returned home shortly after. Eventually, David is abandoned by his beloved mother. David firmly believes that if he becomes a real human being, he will gain his mother's love, so he embarks on an adventure. The story ends with two thousand years later, when humanity has become extinct, aliens have come to Earth, and David is still trying to become a human child and get his mother's love. He is still alive and still in love with his mother.
Almost everyone who watches "Artificial Intelligence" will cry for David's feelings. Humans have created robots to love themselves, but they can't give love. This sci-fi movie is full of fairy tales, but it deeply portrays the plunder and persecution of intelligent robots by humans, showing the weakness of human nature to the fullest. Can greedy and selfish human beings really have eternal love?
3
"I, Robot"
I,ROBOT
（2004）
The film is also adapted from Asimov's work, with the "Three Laws of Robotics" as the core, starring the well-known Will Smith. As a Hollywood science fiction movie, this work is very watchable, with many hearty action scenes. The movie tells the story of the future society in 2035, robots have been fully integrated into the human family and become human partners, but one day the robot creator Dr. committed suicide mysteriously, and the cause of death is a mystery. The detective played by Will Smith is responsible for investigating the case, constantly tracking the truth, and finally discovers that the robot is no longer controlled, and there is a big war between humans and robots. Although the protagonist is human, Sonny, the robot with free will, manages to attract attention, and when you see the ending, you will realize that he is the real protagonist. Under the neat and full plot, this film explores control and being controlled, fear, friendship, betrayal, freedom, awakening... It covers almost all human imaginations of the future human-machine relationship, and everyone can see different meanings in it.
4
Robot Story
WALL. E
（2008）
Robot Story is one of the best animated films that many people remember, and it also lived up to its expectations at the 81st Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Although the protagonist robot has a clumsy appearance, it has the most precious higher wisdom: love and cherish. It breaks the repeated portrayal of "humanoid robots" in previous films, and presents another soft imagination of future intelligence in a cute and playful way. The story takes place in the year 2805, the earth is no longer suitable for human survival due to serious environmental pollution, and all human beings have fled to outer space to "wander", leaving only some small robots to clean up garbage. One of the little robots, WALL-E, has gained self-awareness over the years and falls in love with another female robot, EVA, who suddenly landed from outer space. Subsequently, they embarked on a wonderful journey to outer space together, saving each other, and eventually leading mankind back to Earth to rebuild their homeland. This is a cartoon full of humor, warmth, but also irony. Human beings have created everything and destroyed everything, and in the joy after watching it, maybe everyone can't help but reflect: Are human beings really too bad?
5
"My Robot Girlfriend"
My girlfriend is a cyborg
（2008）
This Japanese film is almost the most popular work in the theme of "Man and Robot Love", and it has always been at the top of the Japanese science fiction film list. The film is full of Japanese-style pure love, no hard sci-fi sense, no gorgeous special effects, only the male protagonist and female protagonist have been in love with each other for decades. The heroine is a robot, played by the famous Japanese actress Haruka Ayase, and because of her excellent performance, she played this ideal and most beautiful robot in the hearts of countless people. The male protagonist is an ordinary male college student, he fell in love at first sight after meeting the robot heroine, and then learned that she was from the future and was a robot created by his future self.
In this story, the male and female protagonists travel through time several times, looking forward to reunion, and also face disasters, separation and death, but they have always bonded and cherished each other. Different from the hardcore imagination of "artificial intelligence" in Europe and the United States, Japan is more concerned about the subtle emotions between humans and machines, so it has created such a fantasy romance film with a very low sense of science fiction, which makes people fantasize that humans and robots will not hurt each other, but will really love each other.
6
"Her"
Her
（2013）
This movie is a masterpiece of "artificial intelligence" in recent years, which abandons the imagination of the appearance of intelligent people and directly turns "intelligence" into an algorithmically powerful and omnipotent operating system, which has a wonderful sound but no body. The voice in the film is voiced by Scarlett Johansson, and although she does not have an image to star, she has become a well-deserved heroine with superb vocal expression. The film tells the story of a middle-aged frustrated man who falls in love with an artificial intelligence system, they talk about everything, understand each other, and become the best soul mate, but spiritual communication has never been able to establish a truly human intimacy. In the end, the male protagonist even discovers that his "lovers" can be dated with hundreds of people at once, but remain loyal in each segment. This is her ability and her mission.
This film uses a slow narrative to dissect the background of human loneliness in a quiet way, full of poetry and sadness, love but cannot, love but cannot. The story's discussion of "human-machine love" is very novel, and at the same time raises many intimate relationship problems, between people, between people and machines, whether present or in the future, are full of barriers and dilemmas, which seem to never be solved.
PS: This American film was shot in Shanghai, you can see many street scenes of Shanghai, and the Western story is placed in the Eastern scene, which also inadvertently creates a sense of science fiction.
7
"Ex Machina"
Ex Machina
（2014）
This is a suspense sci-fi film shot in the United Kingdom, which was nominated for the 88th Academy Award for Best Screenplay. In 2014, when the topic of "artificial intelligence" was not new, this film still attracted new attention with its powerful script and layered suspense rhythm. The story tells that the male protagonist of the programmer is invited to the villa of the rich boss for a vacation and test high-energy robots. In the villa, the male protagonist meets Ava, a robot with a beautiful appearance and independent thinking ability. Subsequently, in this confined space, the male protagonist did the test, the boss secretly observed, Eva was wandering, but they seemed to be tempting and deceiving each other, and the direction of the story became tense and full of suspense. When one of the male protagonists falls into chaos and even wonders if he is also a robot, the tension of the plot reaches a new extreme.
It's a story that can't be spoiled, every advance is nerve-wracking, and the ending makes many people gasp. Humans create artificial intelligence, and after the development of artificial intelligence is too high-energy, they try to destroy, but who will destroy whom in the end? After AI is already almost "human", is it ethical to destroy it? "Ex Machina" has given many new ideas, allowing people to constantly open up new imaginations in the interlocking story.
8
"After Yang"
After Yang
（2021）
"After Yang" is a warm soft sci-fi film shot in the United States by Korean-American director Kwok Gongda, which was nominated for a attention unit at the 74th Cannes Film Festival in 2021. The story tells the story of a couple in the future world who adopted a Chinese girl and bought an intelligent bionic robot "Yang" for her as a companion. Yang gradually became the girl's older brother and became part of the family. When Yang broke down and couldn't repair it, the owner's family saw all his memories.
With almost no special effects, the film shows the intimate family relationship between machines and humans in an essay-like lens, Yang's emotions and memories, and the growth that comes in a story, which is confusing and heartbreaking. There are also many cross-racial elements in the film, which explores Asian identity and nostalgia in many details, and adds realistic thinking to science fiction. Ryuichi Sakamoto wrote an episode "Memory Bank" for "After Yang", which is very poetic and beautiful.
After recommending 8 videos as humans, we also want to invite ChatGPT to recommend a few videos about artificial intelligence, here is its answer:
After reading the answer to ChatGPT, it may coincide with the classic in the hearts of many people. Letting artificial intelligence recommend movies depicting artificial intelligence is probably also an interesting attempt, if it is really smart enough, will it see itself in the story? It has seen the love and imagination, fear and worry of human intelligence in the past hundred years, and people and intelligence are intertwined with each other in the family, in the battlefield, and in intimate relationships, and finally they do not distinguish between you and me.
The future will always come, with the progress and development of science and technology, human beings will eventually face difficulties, but many eternal propositions, have long been answered, I hope human beings will remember that all this happened.
Written by: Luo Huai
Editor: Sibe
Design: Xiao B