AI in popular culture
Artificial Intelligence has been a popular theme in movies for decades. Take a study break and enjoy the selected movie titles on artificial intelligence from the Criterion on Demand collection. Please note that these videos cannot be viewed on mobile devices (Apple iOS, Google Android, and Microsoft Windows Phone 8).
- AI: Artificial IntelligenceFrom the director of E.T. comes the story of a post-apocalyptic future in which the polar icecaps have melted, submerging much of the planetary landmass. One of the new tools Mankind utilizes to manage this environment is an artificial intelligence known as an A.I. computer. The action turns on the character of David, an 11-year-old android, and the emotional journey he makes toward becoming something more.
- Terminator 3: The Rise of the MachinesA decade has passed since John Connor helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 25, Connor lives off the grid - no home, no credit cards, no cell phone and no job. No way he can be traced by Skynet - the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity. Until out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X, Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet. Sent back through time to complete the job left unfinished by her predecessor, the T-1000, this machine is as relentless as her human guise is beautiful. Now Connor's only hope for survival is the Terminator , his mysterious former assassin.
- Ex MachinaCaleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
- 2001, A Space OdysseyIt's man vs. machinery in Stanley Kubrick's startling milestone film. Rarely are such power and beauty expressed in purely cinematic terms. From prehistoric man's struggle to cope with a hostile environment, to the interplanetary voyage to Jupiter, the film is a eloquent statement on man's endless quest to master his fate. The Oscar-winning special effects paved the way for the high-tech look of '80's science-fiction films.
- HerSet in Los Angeles, slightly in the future, her follows Theodore Twombly, a complex, soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive entity in its own right, individual to each user. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet Samantha, a bright, female voice, who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. As her needs and desires grow, in tandem with his own, their friendship deepens into an eventual love for each other.
- Blade RunnerRobots are employed in off-world mining and exploration too dangerous for the human colonists. Fleeing from a polluted home planet, the human-like robots establish themselves across the solar system.
- AlienWhen commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate. After a bad landing on the planet, some crew members leave the ship to explore the area. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a call for help. When one of the eggs is disturbed, the crew do not know the danger they are in until it is too late.
- Minority ReportBased on a Philip K. Dick short story, Minority Report is about a cop in the future working in a division of the police department that arrests killers before they commit the crimes courtesy of some future viewing technology. Cruise's character has the tables turned on him when he is accused of a future crime and must find out what brought it about and stop it before it can happen.