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Another "man vs. machine" epic. Another story of machines betraying humans and taking over the world. "Terminator 3" gave us an inkling of how technological experiments can go wrong, but the new blockbuster, "I-Robot" goes even deeper to drive the point home.
In an era of increasing dependency on computers, humans have begun entrusting their silicon underlings with the most intimate details of their existence. In "I-Robot," Del Spooner (Will Smith) plays a homicide detective who doubles as a technology conspiracy theorist. He believe robots are inherently flawed and cannot be trusted. We've heard that before.
His suspicions are worsened when a robotic scientist falls from a high-story building to his death. Authorities rule it as a suicide case. Spooner suspects it was an I-Robot that tossed the man to his death and spends the movie trying to prove it.
The I-Robot machine is different in that it possesses artificial intelligence features and actually evolves as it acquires more sensory knowledge. This movie also features a very powerful corporation defending their revolutionary technology as flawless. We heard that before.
This is perhaps a movie that chess players can appreciate because of the "Man vs. Machine" element. Besides Vladimir Kramnik said in a recent interview that database programs do 80% of a chess player's work. What about the other 20% of effort? If artificial intelligence enters the chess world, does that figure drop to 10%? or 5%?
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