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Lot of A.I. related media in the last week.  Got around to watching the movie Ex Machina with its noir-ish femme fatale ending.  Also caught up with the final two episodes of Person of Interest.  And I'll admit to tearing up, especially with the twist at the heroic sacrifice.  And the love's lost reunion.  And someone picking up their dog.  Then I binged on all 8-episodes of Season 1 Humans, AMC's adapted series about a world filled with domestic use androids.  Which had some excellent acting and some good ideas, but never really pushed foward on some of its' bigger concepts.

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Jan. 30th, 2014 05:22 pm
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A near future scifi movie.  A lonely writer buys one of the new artificially intelligent operating systems.  And then the pair fall in love.  I liked how only like one person really finds anything weird in a meat person and a electronic person who get romantically involved.  And the glimpses of the rest of the new A.I. shared world were neat.  The only thing I had a hard time buying into was Joaquin Phoenix's character's job, which was writing personal and heart felt letters for people.  I mean, supposedly some of his clients had been using this service for YEARS.  How do the people receiving these touching letters not find out and get super pissed off?
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Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science written by Brian Clevinger, art by Scott Wegenger, colors by Ronda Pattison and letters by Jeff Powell

Ok, so we've covered Atomic Robo before. And all the main points remain true. Killer dialogue. Sweet action sequences. Robots and super-science. Of course this one, which is about Robo in '31 teaming up with pulp-hero Jack Tarot to hunt gangsters, also actually has appearances by Robo's father, Nikolai Tesla. Plus Robo getting a girlfriend. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY OF ALL, the '11 Free Comic Book Day story which features Dr. Dinosaur. Crazy ol', terrbile plans, funny ol' gun toting Dr. Dinosaur...

The world will always need comics where robots punch dinosaurs in the face...
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Atomic Robo: Vol. 1 Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne written by Brian Clevenger, art by Scott Wegener, colors by Ronda Pattison and letters by Jeff Powell

In 1923 Niola Tesla unveiled the world's first artificial intelligence, in the form of a Atomic Robo. In 1938 Robo goes on a top secret mission for the U.S. government in exchange for full citizenship rights (the mission involves a secret Himalayan Nazi base). After that Robo goes on to form Tesladyne, where he and his selected action scientists engage the strange and bizarre. Like giant ants in Nevada or "walking" pyramids in Egypt. Or maybe secret, once lost Nazi science bases...

Clevenger's sense of humor (familiar to those who know him from his webcomic 8-bit Theater) is what makes this book shine. Its not just watching a robot smash a giant ant with a car. Its clever and well-crafted jokes WHILE hitting a giant ant with a Buick...
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I wonder, is there a term for the trope where a mass of online "stuff" becomes a self-aware sentience?

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