The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Directors: Wesley Barry
Actors: Don Megowan, Erica Elliott, Don Doolittle
Run Time: 75 min.
The survivors of a nuclear holocaust fuse man with machine, creating cyborgs to assist in the rebuilding of civilization. However, the blue-skinned androids rebel against their masters and go .....
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Bicentennial Man (1999)
Directors: Chris Columbus
Actors: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill
Run Time: 132 min.
This film follows the 'life' and times of the lead character, an android who is purchased as a household robot programmed to perform menial tasks. Within a few days the Martin family realizes....
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Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards
Run Time: 146 min.
In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, ....
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The Terminator (1984)
Directors: James Cameron
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
Run Time: 108 min .
A cyborg is sent from the future on a deadly mission. He has to kill Sarah Connor, a young woman whose life will have a great significance in years to come. Sarah has only one protector ....
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Metropolis (1927)
Directors: Fritz Lang
Actors: Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Run Time: 99 min.
It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). ....
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Transformers (2007)
Directors: Michael Bay
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel
Run Time: 144 min.
A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war was being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons ....
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Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton
Run Time: 93 min.
Set in the 24th century and decades after the adventures of the original crew of the starship Enterprise, this new series is the long-awaited successor to the original "Star Trek" (1966). Under....
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The Fifth Element (1997)
Directors: Luc Besson
Actors: Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm
Run Time: 126 min.
Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five....
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Westworld (1973)
Directors: Michael Crichton
Actors: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
Run Time: 155 min.
A amusement park for rich vacationers. The park provides its customers a way to live out their fantasies through the use of robots that provide anything they want. Two of the vacationers ....
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Short Circuit (1986)
Directors: John Badham
Actors: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens
Run Time: 155 min.
Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the .....
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A robot might find itself admonished for inappropriately ascribing "robotomorphic" feelings and intentions to other machines, or to humans!
We could carry this speculative evolution further, gradually endowing the feeling robots with intellectual capabilities similar to those of humans. I expect, however, that by the time the robots are ready for them, let's say by 2030, superb intellectual capabilities will be available for wholesale purchase from the traditional artificial intelligence industry, who will have been pursuing their top-down strategy in parallel with the bottom-up evolution of the robots.
Hans Peter Moravec
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