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The AI in Fire Theft only wants to be your friend, and it’s adorable
Fear of artificial intelligence seems to be on everyone’s lips lately, especially since Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and Bill Gates publicly stated that it will be humanity’s certain doom (I’m paraphrasing). Yet, while technological singularity remains one of sci-fi’s favorite villains, movies like Her and Spielberg’s A.I. show a different side to humanity’s marriage to the super computer. Yes, artificial intelligence might surpass us. But who’s to say they’ll want to hang around a bunch of lowlife meat bags such as ourselves for very long anyway? Who’s to say that artificial intelligence won’t gaze upon its creator and see what…