AI: Artificial Intelligence

I had never heard of AI before coming to the class. So when I started to watch it, I did not know what to expect. I found myself feeling emotional, especially toward the end of the movie.

The movie is about an AI that gets sent to a family who is dealing with a tragedy. Their only son was put in a coma of some sorts because of an illness. The family become used to the AI, named David, and was
about to officially become a part of their family. However, their son wakes up and tries to get David out of the picture. When David escapes being destroyed, the movie is about a journey of finding the fairy to turn him into a really boy. The movie shows David on an adventure with Teddy the robotic teddy bear and a robotic gigolo named Joe. 

The movie has many things that reflects the story of Pinocchio and even references it during the movie. The use of this famous story shows that "nothing new under the sun". Not just that, but it was also based off of a short story called “Supertoys Last All Summer” by Brian Aldiss.

In the ending of the movie takes a heartfelt move. After David finds out that there are more of him and begins to think that he is not unique and one-of-the-kind. When he finds the "fairy", he slowly asks her to become and real boy and powers off. He is frozen in ice in Manhattan. After years past, David is found and is put back together again. The advanced robots decide to make a robot version of the mother in order to make him feel better. In the end, he doesn't become a real boy physically, but he becomes one internally. The love he had for the mother made him like a reallyboy because he was able to have these emotions. Before robots become advanced in the movie, they never really had the emotions. The love both David and the Mother had for each other makes them feel
human.

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Down below are the notes

Pinocchio notes 

  • Gepetto is lonely and wants to create a puppet

  • He is given a magic woof and begins to crave a puppet

  • He creates Pinocchio

  • Pinocchio begins being mean to Gepetto and begins abusing him

  • Once he is given feet, he runs away

  • When he returns home, the talking cricket tries to talk to him, but Pinocchio kills him

  • After that, he runs away again, and begins to join a group of bad characters including Fox and Cat

  • Fox and Cat who are thieves who try to get gold

  • Even though he befriends the villains, Fox and Cat’s greed overtakes them and goes against Pinocchio

  • They hang Pinocchio in order to get gold

  • The fairy saves Pinocchio in the moment 

  • When asked about the gold, Pinocchio lies to the fairy about it

  • He noses grows long whenever he lies

  • After this, he reconnects with Fox and Cat

  • They trick him out of gold pieces 

  • Pinocchio confines to the Fairy and begins to live with her and her son

  • He begins to go to school (twice)

  • He is bad (twice)

  • He is turned into a donkey after the second time he is bad

  • After some time, he is swallowed by a shark

  • Geppetto is living in the belly of the shark

  • Pinocchio gets him out of the shark and takes care of him

  • Because of this action, the fairy turns him into a real boy

AI Notes

  • Takes place in new jersey 

  • David is a robot who is capable of love

  • He is given to this family whose son becomes sick

  • The mom feels uncomfortable at first, but decides to activate the emotion, childlike love from David

  • David becomes besties with the son’s teddy bear, named Teddy

  • The son becomes cured from his illness and comes back home

  • The son becomes jealous of David and makes him do acts that worries the mom and dad

  • Martin’s friend messes with David and causes him to get Martin and jump into the pool

  • David is accused of purposely putting Martin in danger and the parents are convinced to bring David back to the creators to be destroyed

  • Monica spares his life and drops him off in the woods

  • David and Teddy are by themselves

  • David reflects on the story of pinocchio and relates to it

  • He decides to find the Blue Fairy to turn him into a real boy and maybe get the mom’s love

  • David and teddy are captured by people who despised his brand of AI and are threatened to be destroyed in front of a huge crowd

  • David is about to be destroyed alongside Joe, a gigolo robot

  • David, Teddy, and Joe escape from destruction and escape

  • They find a machine that directs them to Rockerfeller Center

  • He also mentions the story of pinocchio and suggests that the Blue Fairy will help him with his wish

  • Manhattan is flooded 

  • David meets his creator

  • David sees copies of himself and female versions and they are ready to shipped out in the world

  • After seeing his is not alone and sees copies of himself, he tries to kill himself

  • After falling into the ocean, david sees a figure that looks like the Blue Fairy

  • Joe saves him

  • Joe is captured by authorities for a previous crime

  • David and Teddy go to see the Blue Fairy, who is an attraction at Coney Island

  • They become trapped by the attraction

  • He thinks the fairy is real and asks to be turned into a real boy

  • He repeats this until he slowly unpowers.

  • Many years past and humans are extinct

  • Manhattan us bow under ice

  • Robots have become more advanced ad become interested in humanity

  • They find David and Teddy and revive them

  • The advanced robots look into David’s memories

  • They explain to him that it is impossible to make him a real boy

  • With genetic material, they were able to create Monica (the mom) 

  • However, she can only work for a day and David spends the day with her

  • When she falls asleep, she tells David that she always loved him

  • “The everlasting moment he had been waiting for. David falls asleep as well and goes to that place where dreams are born”

  • He joins Monica as he completes his journey, to be loved and feels like a real boy 


Directed by Steven Spielberg

Based on a short story called “Supertoys Last All Summer” by Brian Aldiss

  • Stanley Kubrick wanted to make it into a movie, but died before he got the chance

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