An inventor creates a sentient robot out of a mannequin head and an old washing machine and they get up to a bunch of lo-fi larks. Jim Archer (working with a script by David Earl and Chris Hayward) could have easily turned this into a one-note joke. Including (spoiler alert) all of humanity. He was designed as a child, but outlives everyone he ever loves. The tragedy at the heart of the film, though, is Haley Joel Osment’s immortality. Steven Spielberg, working from notes left by Stanley Kubrick, crafts a Pinocchio-style fairytale about a robot boy who desperately wants to be human. AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001)Ī list of films about AI needs to contain a film called AI. Is it rooted in scientific verisimilitude? No. Tau, though – a film in which a woman is held prisoner by an Alexa equivalent (voiced by Gary Oldman) – is smart enough to understand that we sometimes want to watch a load of dumb stuff happen. Since AI has become a danger to the way in which humanity operates, films about its arrival have tended to err on the more ponderous side of things. More human than the actual humans, here depicted as giant, inert babies, Wall-E is just sentient enough to give himself over to love. Perhaps this optimism is what makes Wall-E so charming. What a world we lived in back in 2008, when we thought that robotic intelligence would be put to use to clear up the planet, rather than making rubbish art for the intro sequences of mediocre Marvel shows. That said, it manages to walk an impressive line between “Look at the consequences of our technology” and “Aargh! Robots!” Much better than you would expect from Westworld Does Misery. Unable to complete her work, a writer goes on a retreat where she is aided by an AI assistant who won’t let her leave until she has finished the job. This low-budget thriller by Natalie Kennedy – her directorial feature debut – has a ludicrous premise. But I, Robot also made a ton of money while introducing Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics to an audience who might not otherwise have heard them. I, Robot (2004)Īrriving slap-bang in the middle of Will Smith’s “Will Smith battles things that look like humans but aren’t” imperial phase, you could write off I, Robot as just another gormless wedge of pseudo-intelligent action.
But the way in which M3gan goes wrong – essentially boobytrapping anything that might come between her and her human friend – feels alarmingly realistic, yet also the sort of thing that usually happens only in Loony Tunes cartoons. M3gan (2022)Ī piece of pop culture so resonant that Drew Barrymore dressed up as the titular character on her talkshow, Gerard Johnstone’s M3gan tells the tale of a doll that achieves sentience – and then goes wrong.
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