It remains a better and more convincing depiction of AI than many of its newer contemporaries, including Ex Machina and Blade Runner 2049.
“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam,” author Frederik Pohl once wrote. AI has been the subject of sci-fi for so long it’s nearly cliche. Decades before anything resembling large language models arrived, creative minds had deftly imagined what a world populated by artificial minds would look like, from Metropolis to 2001: A Space Odyssey, usually as thinking, feeling, loving robots of some kind or another.
Back in 2013, who could’ve guessed that a story featuring aural sex with a girl-Linux would seem so prescient a decade later? Movies that came after Her would not hold up as well. I winced my way through a rewatch of Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, a movie with a similar setup: a sensitive guy develops a crush on a female AI. A coder named Caleb Smith is selected by a playboy tech mogul to evaluate an AI named Ava .
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