There’s a VR game that I think has a flat port as well, called The Last Worker. You basically play The Last human working at an obvious Amazon analogue. It’s pretty entertaining.
That movie made me so mad.
The book I, Robot is a series of short stories presenting situations where it seems like robots didn’t follow the three laws of robotics and then explaining how they were caught up in loopholes, essentially. It’s great.
In the movie, the loophole is: “We put a second brain in the robots that doesn’t follow the three laws of robotics.”
(I might be wrong, it’s been a very long time since I’ve read the book or seen the movie. This is just what I remember.)
That’s the loophole in the robot that turns out to be a good guy, the loophole in the AI that turns out to be the bad guy is accidentally deriving a zeroith law: protect humanity from individual humans, by taking away their freedom
Also in this scene, why was there an empty spot in the grid for the robot to blend into? If it took the place of another robot, what did it do with the remains of the other robot without time. A lot of “don’t think about it too much” in this movie.
That was not the loophole. That only applies to Sonny who was the only one capable of ignoring the 3 laws. The main computer (Vicky I think?) is the one who comes to the “we must enslave the humans to save the humans” conclusion all on her own.
But none of that is in the book from what I remember. The 0th law of robotics wasn’t introduced until much later in the robots series.
Have you read the original Asimov move script? I believe it was written back in the 70s. A special edition of the movie came with a paperback edition of the book version that was illustrated by Harlan Ellison.
Nah. Was it good?
It doesn’t resemble the movie Alex Proyas directed. It’s all short stories. It ends with a man having a fight with God, which they just scream math equations into the sky.
It’s the movie I hate the most. For one, the problem robot looked exactly like its creator. Also, don’t they broach the topic of the 0th law, which isn’t introduced until way later?
Fuck .webp format. This bullshit format shows as a static image when you post it in group chats.
