Automata - Finally a Realistic Movie About the Emergence of Conscious Robots?

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In director Gabe Ibáñez's new movie, Automata, the dangers of when mind and machine meld, are examined. Check out he just-released trailer.

As technology continues an exponential rise, it seems as though filmmakers are starting to get their hard science fiction right. Her recently looked intelligently at how personal data assistants might become conscious and self-improving, and now a trailer for Spanish director Gabe Ibañez's Automata looks like it may do the same for robots, with a bit or action thrown in of course.

Antonio Banderas stars in Automata, as Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, who routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

The trailer brought out the following comment from Martin Takaichi, "Part Blade Runner, part District 9, part Robot and Frank. Count me in!"

"Part Blade Runner, part District 9, part Robot and Frank. Count me in!"

The film is set thirty years into the future, when when the planet’s ecology is on the point of collapse, and, it would seem, the robots have caught up with their masters.  It appears that Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics play some role in the story.  One twist is that he robots in the world of Automata are forbidden to alter themselves. "Self repairing implies some idea of a conscience," says one of the film's characters.

According to Ibañez, the film is about “this moment where artificial intelligence arrives at the same place as human intelligence.”

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The trailer is populated with an array of different robots makes and models –  from a low-tech, Tonka-like version to sleek, gender-specific designs complete with candy-colored hair, suggesting a robot civilization with its own hierarchy and class consciousness.

Automata also stars Dylan McDermott,  Robert Forster, Melanie Griffith (appearing alongside her now-former husband, Banderas), and Academy Award winner Javier Bardem as the voice of Blue Robot.

The film opens  on October 10.





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