So without further ado, here are the 19 of the best artificial intelligences in film.
Rachael can do almost anything her human counterparts can do (and even almost pass those blasted Turing Tests!
Does this not make her human?
But then again, most filmmakers do not have Kevin Spacey providing the vocals for a sentient emoticon.
Instead, he proves to be the only friend Rockwells got on the moon or otherwise.
It amounts to a subversive and unexpectedly sentimental brotherhood between clone and machine.
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That sounds pretty human to me.
Much like GERTY inMoon, the surprise of TARS is that hedoesntbetray our heroes despite given ample opportunity.
This is even more deliberately intriguing since TARS resembles the Monolith from the technology-dreading2001.
What would he do with all that time?
Apparently watchLawrence of Arabia.
The effect of a robot trying to act human by imitating a film is disquieting.
Sure, the film is about turning the BardsThe Tempestinto an intergalactic passion play, but forget the humans.
This film is all about Robby saving the day from his masters evil self with proclamations of doom.
Mostly present for comic relief, they still alleviated audience concerns even during the darkest prequel days.
As directed by Fritz Lang, Brigitte Helms metallic curves are left ambiguously sentient.
Beside the point, she is cinemas first android and one of its most viscerally indelible.
As the protagonist of yet another Pixar masterpiece, Wall-E is a bucket of bolts with a dream.
As Scott described, this is the closest a robot can come to having sex.
Such a twisted thought brings an unpleasant (and uncompromising) dimension to this milk-spewing cretin.
Its a profound concept brought to life with plenty of ham and cheese by a boisterous Rutger Hauer.
This cannot be disputed.
Indeed, the real terror to be had is when those lifelines are severed.
Could you imagine anybody else?
This disembodied character is simply a computer on a space shuttle.
HAL is actually just one interlude of an overarching narrative that spans hundreds of thousands of years.
So, theres our list of the greatest movie AIs.
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