Movies about artificial intelligence: what geeks should watch next

The latest technologies are developing rapidly, and artificial intelligence is no longer a surprise. AI is related to neuroscience, including cognitive, systemic computing, mathematics, robotics, and even philosophy. Some scientists believe that AI will soon be able to surpass the abilities of the human mind by tens, thousands, or millions of times in a split second.

Therefore, this field creates unlimited space for fantasies that can become reality. OBOZ.UA has collected the best movies about artificial intelligence and the development of modern technologies.

The Creator

• Year: 2023
• Genre: sci-fi, thriller, action, drama, adventure
• Director: Gareth Edwards
• Actors: John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Allison Janney, Ken Watanabe

It is 2065. The mysterious Creator has developed artificial intelligence that is used in all spheres of human life. But a catastrophe occurs as AI causes a nuclear explosion in Los Angeles, so the government decides to ban the technology, fearing a repeat of the tragedy. Five years later, the military hires Joshua for a mission to infiltrate the Creator's laboratory to destroy an innovative secret weapon. Suddenly, during the mission, he discovers an AI girl who looks and behaves like a human. Joshua is faced with a difficult choice.

Transcendence

• Year: 2014
• Genre: sci-fi, thriller, detective, drama
• Director: Wally Pfister
• Cast: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara

Talented researcher Will Caster works in the field of artificial intelligence and tries to create a unique computer. He wants technology to surpass the human mind and accumulate all knowledge and experience. There is an anti-technology group in the world called RIFT, known for its radical actions. They organize terrorist attacks, destroying laboratories where artificial intelligence was being developed. Will was injured during one of the attacks. He was fatally wounded by a bullet containing radioactive polonium. Doctors conclude that the protagonist will live no more than five weeks, but Will has his own plans...

Bigbug

• Year: 2022
• Genre: science fiction
• Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
• Cast: Elsa Silberstein, Isabelle Nanty, Stéphane De Groodt

The story takes place in the year 2045. Almost all work is done by artificial intelligence, not humans. Suddenly, a real uprising of machines takes place in the house of old-fashioned Alice. The androids lock her house, and then the houses of all her neighbors, ostensibly for safety. However, in reality, AI seeks to change the existing order.

Superintelligence

• Year: 2020
• Genre: comedy, romantic drama, sci-fi
• Director: Ben Falcone
• Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, Brian Tyree Henry, Sam Richardson

A superintelligence has three scenarios for the future: to save people from all troubles, enslave them, or destroy them. The AI is looking for a guinea pig to conduct tests. It needs a typical representative of humanity. An elderly and not very happy American woman, Carol Peters, becomes the perfect candidate. The AI informs her in the voice of a famous TV presenter that it will be her companion for three days. Carol has three days to change her life, and her success or failure will be a pardon or a sentence for modern civilization...

I Am Mother

• Year: 2019
• Genre: sci-fi, thriller, drama, detective
• Director: Grant Spector
• Cast: Clara Rugaard, Hilary Swank, Rose Byrne, Luke Hawker, Summer Lenton, Hazel Sandery, Tahlia Sturzaker

A global catastrophe hits the Earth. Humanity is destroyed. Then a special emergency program is triggered in an underground bunker. A robot with the highest level of artificial intelligence selects a human embryo and begins to raise it as its own child. The girl is born, grows up, and studies various sciences under the robot's supervision. However, one day a strange woman enters the station. Now the girl has doubts about the real intentions of the robotic mother and does not understand how the world works.

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