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AI must-watch movies

Since Fritz Lang gave us ‘false Maria’ in 1927’s landmark sci-fi film Metropolis, robots have terrified and fascinated us in equal measure.

Below a list of AI must-watch movies that I’ve seen !

1927 – Metropolis

I was really impressed watching this movie, about how the future was depicted one hundred years ago, anticipating most of today discussion about equality and social classes.

1927 Fritz Lang’s expressionist sci-fi epic has influenced everything from Superman to Blade Runner, while ‘false Maria’ was the first robot depicted on film and inspired the art deco look of C-3PO in Star Wars.

1951 – The Day the Earth Stood Still

I’ve found this film full of suggestions and themes that are still relevant today…

1951 This movie is a classic slice of black-and-white sci-fi. The alien Klaatu and his super-robot Gort visited Earth with a warning: humans must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. I’ve found this film full of suggestions and themes that are still relevant today.

1968 – 2001 A Space Odyssey

1968 ‘The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. We are all foolproof and incapable of error.’ So says HAL in Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke’s visionary epic. Discovery One is on mission to Jupiter with most of the craft’s operations controlled by the sentient computer, HAL, who speaks in a soft monotone – even while killing the crew. ‘I’m sorry, Dave.