Tag: movies

Love for the artificial

i believe machines will .. reach human levels of intelligence, including the ability to understand and respond appropriately to human emotion, including to be able to give and receive love, within 30 years

AI struck me as a rather good movie that asks the right questions. as we go more cyborg, will we respect machines? what will guide our body enhancement choices? gigolo joe, another mecha remarks to david:

you are being loved for what you do to them, they don’t love you

at some point, we will have to face this question too. maybe we already do.

Bangkok Day 15

today was a good day. i made a lot of progress, we completed a release ready to install at the customer site, and are now heavily into re-architecting the application (it needed that, seriously..) slowly, but surely, the thais around the office pick up my ideas and start to become more productive by being more organized. sooner or later i will explain them how to write a .NET application 🙂

also, my surfing got a lot faster when i installed the proximotron, a very cool local proxy that filters out all the crap that goes into websites these days.

in the evening, i went to emporium and met jam by chance. she is a friend of oliver and me and i know her from my last visit. afterwards, i went to see memento, a very special movie.

Shrek vs Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy opens today in the US (and will open around august 18th here). And Shrek has just opened. Both movies have only synthetic actors, which makes them kind of intriguing 🙂

The days when have to endure tom cruise might just about be over. Or they might not. As James Cameron has said: people do not want to see actors. people want to see stars.

Will synthetic actors draw fans? If Lara Croft is any indication, they will.. social implications aside, both of these movies are stunningly made and best of class. I will certainly check them out.

Very timely, slashdot has an article about the tech behind final fantasy.