{"id":10071,"date":"2023-05-19T15:38:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/is-the-creator-the-first-or-last-in-a-new-wave-of-sci-fi-movies-about-ai\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T13:38:20","slug":"is-the-creator-the-first-or-last-in-a-new-wave-of-sci-fi-movies-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/19\/is-the-creator-the-first-or-last-in-a-new-wave-of-sci-fi-movies-about-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Is The Creator the first (or last) in a new wave of sci-fi movies about AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trailer for Gareth Edwards\u2019 new film shows humanity being outsmarted by AI \u2013 and is released just as our overlords-to-be are rearing their terrifying heads <\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a while since we had a truly great movie about devious, dystopian AIs priming themselves to take over the world, in which the key choices made by mere humans will decide whether we end up as just an organic footnote in histories written by our machine conquerors. Alex Garland\u2019s Ex-Machina<\/a> (2014) springs to mind, while 2015\u2019s Avengers: Age of Ultron was a fun comic book romp, if lacking the spiky gravitas and sly intellectual thrust of Garland\u2019s debut. Grant Sputore\u2019s I Am Mother explored similar territory in 2019 with a rather more claustrophobic, yet devastatingly incisive touch. Now there\u2019s Gareth Edwards\u2019 The Creator, the first trailer for which debuted this week, arriving just as very real concerns about the ability of artificial intelligence to really muck things up for us humans are rearing their terrifying digital heads<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At first glance, it looks as if Edwards has thrown in all our favourite sci-fi tropes. The basic scenario \u2013 tooled up military man fails in mission to wipe out robot child because she is just too cute \u2013 reminds us of kind-hearted Din Djarin\u2019s inability to bounty hunt Grogu in early episodes of The Mandalorian.<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nThe trailer for Gareth Edwards\u2019 new film shows humanity being outsmarted by AI \u2013 and is released just as our overlords-to-be are rearing their terrifying heads
\nIt\u2019s been a while since we had a truly great movie about devious, dystopian AIs priming themselves to take over the world, in which the key choices made by mere humans will decide whether we end up as just an organic footnote in histories written by our machine conquerors. Alex Garland\u2019s Ex-Machina (2014) springs to mind, while 2015\u2019s Avengers: Age of Ultron was a fun comic book romp, if lacking the spiky gravitas and sly intellectual thrust of Garland\u2019s debut. Grant Sputore\u2019s I Am Mother explored similar territory in 2019 with a rather more claustrophobic, yet devastatingly incisive touch. Now there\u2019s Gareth Edwards\u2019 The Creator, the first trailer for which debuted this week, arriving just as very real concerns about the ability of artificial intelligence to really muck things up for us humans are rearing their terrifying digital heads.
\nAt first glance, it looks as if Edwards has thrown in all our favourite sci-fi tropes. The basic scenario \u2013 tooled up military man fails in mission to wipe out robot child because she is just too cute \u2013 reminds us of kind-hearted Din Djarin\u2019s inability to bounty hunt Grogu in early episodes of The Mandalorian. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The trailer for Gareth Edwards\u2019 new film shows humanity being outsmarted by AI \u2013 and is released just as our overlords-to-be are rearing their terrifying heads It\u2019s been a while since we had a truly great movie about devious, dystopian AIs priming themselves to take over the world, in which the key choices made by …<\/p>\n

Is The Creator the first (or last) in a new wave of sci-fi movies about AI?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}