Movies like The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

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   Love Machina

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   2024 · 91 min · Documentary

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   Futurists Martine and Bina Rothblatt commission an advanced humanoid AI named Bina48 to transfer Bina’s consciousness from a human to a robot in an attempt to continue their once-in-a-galaxy love affair for the rest of time.

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   • shared theme: artificial intelligence (a.i.)

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   Do You Trust This Computer?

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   2018 · 78 min · Documentary

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   Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence, and today a new generation of self-learning computers has begun to reshape every aspect of our lives. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?

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   • shared theme: artificial intelligence (a.i.)

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   Unknown: Killer Robots

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   2023 · 68 min · Documentary

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   What happens when a machine makes life-or-death decisions? This documentary explores the dangers of artificial intelligence in military application.

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   • shared theme: artificial intelligence (a.i.)

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   Eternal You

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   2024 · 87 min · Documentary

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   Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.

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   The Thinking Game

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   2025 · 84 min · Documentary

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   Chronicles the extraordinary life of visionary scientist Demis Hassabis and his relentless quest to solve the enigma of artificial general intelligence.

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   We Need to Talk About A.I.

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   2020 · 86 min · Documentary

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   Conflict between man and machine has been a science fiction staple for over a century. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Terminator the perceived threat posed by super-intelligent robots has been exploited by Hollywood for decades. But do advances in Artificial Intelligence mean we are now facing a future in which that threat could become a reality?

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   Intelligenza artificiale - Una rivoluzione per l'umanità ?

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   2023 · 74 min · Documentary

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   A journey into the world of artificial intelligence, to understand its operating logic and current and future applications. The TV program explains what AI is, its history, its current and future applications. It also illustrates the figure of Pepper, a humanoid robot that is the subject of important research at the University of Palermo. The TV program also talks about future developments of AI, the opportunities and possible social risks that it could entail: an aspect to focus on, both for the need to arrive at a correct algorithm, and to achieve an indispensable regulation of the sector.

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   AlphaGo

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   2017 · 90 min · Documentary

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   The ancient Chinese game of Go has long been considered a grand challenge for artificial intelligence. Yet in 2016, Google's DeepMind team announced that they would be taking on Lee Sedol, the world's most elite Go champion. AlphaGo chronicles the team as it prepares to test the limits of its rapidly-evolving AI technology. The film pits man against machine, and reveals as much about the workings of the human mind as it does the future of AI.

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   John Candy: I Like Me

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   2025 · 113 min · Documentary

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   Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.

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    Coded Bias

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    2020 · 86 min · Documentary

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    Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

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