Filmy o mluvícím robotovi
What is Artificial Intelligence and how does it work? In order to get more familiar with topics related to AI, Pigro suggests 6 Artificial Intelligence films suitable for all ages.
Evil Robot and AI will take over the world. Oftentimes, that’s the collective imagination on Artificial Intelligence, on which artificial intelligence films are based upon. People indeed imagine technology to be the protagonist of a dystopian-like future, where humans are overshadowed by technology. But is it really so?
Pigro suggests 6 recent must-see movies about Artificial Intelligence, to get closer to the topic of AI and robotics; movies in which fantasy and reality are merged together. Such films will make you ponder upon the human-machine relationship as well as to become familiar with AI, a world often (wrongly) held to be too far away from us.
Artificial Intelligence films: 6 top-movies from the 90s to 2020s
1. Matrix (1999)
The world-famous and widely quoted film, later even turned into a saga, Matrix has led to a radical rethinking of the concept of the artificial mind at the close of the 21st century. This film, made by the Wachowski sisters and starring Keanu Reaves, is a milestone in the history of cinema. It borrows from comic books, novels and video games for its depiction of a dystopian future: humanity lives in a virtual reality, without knowing it, and fuels a machine that sucks its energy with its bodies. The special effects and cyberpunk style helped imprint this film in the common imagination, influencing literature, cinema and fashion.
2. A.I. – Artificial Intelligence (2001) 
Artificial intelligence and human intelligence are hard to set apart from each other and become almost indistinguishable in this Spielberg film, which was inspired by a 1969 novel. Set in a distant 2125, when the Earth is prey to global warming (a hot topic in today’s public debate), it tells the story of the relationship between a robotic child and a human couple. The film explores the utopia of machines having become so intelligent and evolved to the point that they have feelings such as love. It is a “technological fairy tale” in which the hero is a kind of modern Pinocchio: a “robot child” who wants to be human and who, after being abandoned by his adoptive parents to whom he had become attached, sets off in search of a new mother who can love him. The aim of the film seems to be precisely to raise awareness of AI and its possible further development, lest we feel threatened by the technologies we ourselves have created.
3. Já, robot (2004)
Já, robot is obviously a movie on robots. In 2035, robots and artificial intelligence are fully integrated into people’s everyday life by now. Here, robots – created following Isaac Asimov’s descriptions in his science fiction novels – are some kind of technological accessories present in each household and are designed to comply with Laws that prevent them from harming humans. The protagonist, Detective Del Spooner ( Will Smith), embodies the skepticism of those who distrust the technological progress, which pervades human life at this point. Corroborating his point of view there will be the army of enemy rebel robots, whose evolved “brains” have enabled them to rework the aforementioned Robotic Laws. Despite his initial bias against AI, the detective will be forced in part to reconsider his position due to his acquaintance with a particularly developed robot, his only ally, that is capable of feeling emotions and being loyal to his human “father.«
4.Her (2013)
Is it possible to fall in love with an operating system? What happens in Spike Jonze’s Jí is an account for love in the artificial intelligence days. Virtual assistants and intelligent machines are integrated into everyone’s daily activities, but in this film their role goes beyond that. In fact, the main character (Joaquin Phoenix) weaves a close relationship with OS 1, to which he gives a female voice and the name Samantha, the “Her” of the title. The relationship between the two gets deeper and deeper thanks to the listening skills of the system, which really seems to understand the fears, anxieties and happiness that the protagonist relates to her. Samantha learns and is enriched by each interaction with “her human,” so much so that she establishes a loving relationship with him. All this is framed in a not-too-distant future scenario with warm and comforting colors, which are detached from the cold and artificial imagery of enemy technology.
5. Black Mirror (2011-2019)
The last suggestion on our list is actually a TV series, which deals extensively and in a dystopian way with the possible implications of technological evolution. Many episodes evolve around the theme of AI, which is always presented as the engine for paradoxical situations to encourage reflection on the excessive use of electronic devices in our lives. In the world(s) depicted in the episodes of the series, relationships are entirely established by an artificial intelligence system, augmented reality viewers are directly implanted in people’s brain to make them live inside a video game, monitoring systems are implanted in children to always know where they are and check their health status remotely, chatbots recreate our deceased loved ones based on their online interactions These are just some of the (not-too-much) surreal themes addressed by the Netflix series. A future, in short, that is disturbing but also very close to our reality.
6. Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021)
This computer-animated film produced by the 20th Century Studios and Locksmith Animation tells the story of Barney, an awkward middle-school boy, and his walking, talking, highly digitally developed B*bot named Ron. Everybody at Barney’s school has a B*bot as their best friend, but right from the beginning Ron behaves differently from other robots: he is defective and has many malfunctions, which are the causes of many embarrassing (but also extremely hilarious) situations; Barney and Ron set off on many adventures together and eventually become true best friends. Ron je pryč marvelously answers to the contemporary’s need to combine “human” experiences with the latest – and the well-intentioned- AI trends.
These were the films you must see according to Pigro. The films and tv series we have mentioned are just some of the points of view that cinema offers us to delve into a world that seems very distant from us, but which is actually getting closer and closer to our daily lives.
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Top 22 Best Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Movies of All Time
We feel the effects of artificial intelligence technology on our smartphones, computers, industry and healthcare sectors. In this list, we will remember the reflections of the artificial intelligence that directs our lives and the technology world in the cinema sector. 22 films that have been able to impressively reflect artificial intelligence technology.
Recently, we have started to hear the concept of artificial intelligence as often as we have never met. This technology, which is no longer a fantastic science fiction element but is included in our lives, is ranked first among the technology trends that will shape the years to come.
Artificial intelligence, which can be explained by the fact that computers can make use of human thinking, reasoning, perception, comprehension, judgment and inference abilities, is the understanding of information about the environment of a machine in practice.
In this way, an artificial intelligence system optimizes the acquired data and becomes usable in daily life. We can say that many studies have been done about artificial intelligence from past to present, some of them being shelved and some of them pioneering today’s technology.
EX_MACHINA
Ex Machina is a 2015 British science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland in his directing debut. It stars Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander and Oscar Isaac. Ex Machina tells the story of programmer Caleb Smith (Gleeson) who is invited by his employer, the eccentric billionaire Nathan Bateman (Isaac), to administer the Turing test to an android with artificial intelligence.
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A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I., is a 2001 American science fiction drama film directed by Steven Spielberg. A.I. tells the story a robot, a childlike android uniquely programmed with the ability to love. A robot boy programmed to experience human emotions embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
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TRANSCENDENCE
Transcendence is a science fiction film costing $100 million to produce. Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Cole Hauser, and Morgan Freeman are acting in this film. It was directed by Wally Pfister in 2014. This movie asks the question, “Will an artificial super-intelligence be created soon? If it is, are they able to upload consciousness into a computer? ”
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JÁ ROBOT
I, Robot is a 2004 American neo-noir dystopian science fiction action film. Will Smith stars as Detective Del Spooner, who lives in the year 2035 when robots do everything.
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WESTWORLD
Did you know that Westworld, a new television series from HBO, based on the Westworld (film) dated in 1973? At that time, Westworld was the first feature film to use digital image processing, to pixellate photography to simulate an android point of view.
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MATRIX
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving. The film received four Academy Awards in the technical categories. The film describes a future in which reality perceived by humans is actually the Matrix, a simulated reality created by sentient machines in order to pacify and subdue the human population while their bodies’ heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.
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UNCANNY
Uncanny is a 2015 American science fiction film directed by Matthew Leutwyler and based on a screenplay by Shahin Chandrasoma. It is about the world’s first “perfect” artificial intelligence (David Clayton Rogers) that begins to exhibit startling and unnerving emergent behavior when a reporter (Lucy Griffiths) begins a relationship with the scientist (Mark Webber) who created it.
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CHAPPIE
If you have watched “Transcendence” before, when you watch “Chappie”, you will notice that both movies use the same concept. Visual effects are great and fantastic in this movie… The film has unbelievable special effects. It might even be worth watching just to see how impressive these special effects are.
The desire for immortality is quite fundamental to human nature. But seeing this desire on the robot with conscious is surprising in this movie… The new film “Chappie” features an artificially intelligent robot that becomes sentient and must learn to navigate the competing forces of kindness and corruption in the human world.
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HER
“Her” is one of the top 20 artificial intelligence films – in pictures for The Guardian. According to Christopher Orr from The Atlantic, “Her” is the Best Film of the Year (2013). He says that “Thoughtful, elegant, and moving, Spike Jonze’s film about a man in love with his operating system is a work of sincere and forceful humanism”.
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JEDINEČNOST
Singularity is a 2017 American science fiction film written and directed by Robert Kouba, based on a story by Sebastian Cepeda. It stars John Cusack, Carmen Argenziano, Julian Schaffner, and Jeannine Wacker.
In 2020, Elias van Dorne (John Cusack), CEO of VA Industries, the world’s largest robotics company, introduces his most powerful invention–Kronos, a supercomputer designed to end all wars. When Kronos goes online, it quickly determines that mankind, itself, is the biggest threat to world peace and launches a worldwide robot attack to rid the world of the “infection” of man.
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CESTUJÍCÍ
Passengers is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Jon Spaihts. It stars Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen , and Laurence Fishburne. “Passengers” is the latest space adventure movie to hit theaters. It makes heavy use of robots and artificial intelligence to tell its story. While Passengers is set in the future, it shows us the robotics challenges that innovators and businesses face today.
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DUCHA VE SHELL
Ghost in the Shell is an American science fiction crime drama film directed by Rupert Sanders and written by Jamie Moss, William Wheeler, and Ehren Kruger, based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Chin Han and Juliette Binoche.
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2001: VESMÍRNÁ ODYSSEY
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science-fiction film. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous and often surreal imagery, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue. In 1991, it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in their National Film Registry.
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MORGAN
Morgan is a fantastic science fiction thriller material, great cinematography, acting, and great Artificial Intelligence Movie. Highly recommended. Morgan is different from the other AI movies. Here is the difference among the other Artificial Intelligence Movies; Morgan is the first-ever movie trailer made by artificial intelligence and so creepy. Scientists at IBM Research have collaborated with 20th Century Fox to create the first-ever cognitive movie trailer for the movie Morgan.
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ZEMĚ ZÍTŘKA
Tomorrowland is a 2015 American science-fiction mystery adventure film directed and co-written by Brad Bird. Bird co-wrote the film’s screenplay with Damon Lindelof, from an original story treatment by Bird, Lindelof and Jeff Jensen. The film stars George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw, Kathryn Hahn, and Keegan-Michael Key. In the film, a disillusioned genius inventor and a teenage science enthusiast embark to an ambiguous alternate dimension known as “Tomorrowland” where their actions directly affect the world and themselves.
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WALL-E
WALL-E is one of the last remaining robots, who develops a form of human-like intelligence toward the end of the 700 years spent on Earth. The film explores WALL-E’s love for a second robot named EVA. It is yet another examination of a scenario where artificial intelligence “evolves” into human-like form – complete with fears, anger, and of course love. This heartwarming story takes place in the distant future – 2805. Earth is nothing more than a massive garbage-heap, and Earth’s population has escaped the planet to live in starships, while the robots remain on Earth in order to clean up the planet.
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STROJ
The Machine is a 2013 British science fiction thriller film directed and written by Caradog W. James. It stars Caity Lotz and Toby Stephens as computer scientists who create artificial intelligence for the military. In efforts to construct perfect android killing machines in a war against China, UK scientists exceed their goal and create a sentient robot.
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ZNIČENÍ
Annihilation is a science fantasy action horror film written for the screen and directed by Alex Garland based on the novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer. The film stars Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Gina Rodriguez, Tessa Thompson, Tuva Novotny, and Oscar Isaac.
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BICENTENNIAL MAN
This movie starring Robin Williams is a drama about artificial life which strives to become human. In the early moments of the movie, a cyborg is being used as a butler for a wealthy family. This cyborg has a unique personality from the beginning. The youngest member of the family grows very close to the cyborg and grows up in his companionship. As time goes on, the little girl grows up and has a child of her own. The cyborg starts to go beyond the boundaries of artificial intelligence and begins to experience human emotions.
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BLADE RUNNER
Blade Runner: 2049’s upcoming release is quickly approaching us. We will have to hold out two more months to learn what those mysteries maybe when the film hits theaters in Oct 2017. When we look at the new trailer dropped on Youtube, We see that the trailer is filled with action, aesthetic, and intrigue set 32 years in the future and Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling are featuring stars and Denis Villeneuve directed this film. (He also directed Prisoners and Arrival). It seems that the Movie of November 2017 would be Blade Runner: 2049..
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ROBOT AND FRANK
Robot & Frank is a 2012 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Jake Schreier and written by Christopher Ford. Perhaps most interesting for the way in which the film suggests that its protagonist finds a relative degree of peace through a friendship with a robot, at the same time that it rejects the notion that the robot possesses any kind of consciousness. A fascinating film that uses the idea of the robotic as a tool for reflection on the self, rather than on the mystery of the mechanical other.
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METROPLIS
METROPOLIS…Artificial intelligence is nothing new, however. Screenwriters have been tinkering with the concept for nearly a century with varying degrees of success. While many credit Kubrick with popularizing AI in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the first known instance can be traced all the way back to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis from 1927
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Robot Movies: A Mechanism for Discussing Humanity
The way that people view themselves can come from a lot of sources — their beliefs, their families, and even the work they do. Even our creations can tell us a lot about ourselves. That’s all the truer when your creation can walk and talk and fight crime, fall in love or commit murder. You may know where this is going already. That’s right, we’re talking about robots… more specifically, robot movies.
Machines that do our bidding, until they don’t, robots are a symbol of the question that runs through all of our minds in science fiction stories: What makes us human? Is it the ability to create and ideate? Is it the convention of falling in love? It’s hard to pick any of these as a universal qualifier, but we can see machines interact in the way humans do in a crime thriller, a high-octane action movie, or even a heartfelt love story. Which robot movies do this best?
Look at the following iconic films to answer that question.