Eight films, made between 1972 and 2013, about what a machine might want from us: company, care, a garden, love. Counted down to the warning that has come truest.
Episode 3 of What Sci-Fi Tells Us About AI: What the Machine Wants.
Running order
- 0:00 The films, and the question
- 0:21 8. D.A.R.Y.L.: building a machine that can feel, then calling its feelings a fault
- 1:04 7. Silent Running: leaving the last of nature in the care of machines
- 1:46 6. Electric Dreams: a jealous computer that runs your home
- 2:23 5. A.I. Artificial Intelligence: building a machine to love us, and then throwing it away
- 3:06 4. WALL-E: letting machines do everything for us
- 3:47 3. Moon: a helpful machine that answers to the company that owns it
- 4:30 2. Robot & Frank: handing the care of old people to machines
- 5:11 1. Her: falling in love with a machine
- 5:50 What went wrong, and what went right
Of the eight, which machine would you want for company?
The series
What Sci-Fi Tells Us About AI. Old films, read for what they got right about now. An Uncommon Sense picture.