That poster


Maybe it's just me, but Phoenix reminds me of Tom Selleck on the poster a little.

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True!

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Bump

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Can't see it.

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The film has an IMDb rating of 8/10. That suggests a damn good film.

Also, Phoenix does look like Tom Selleck and like a gay guy from the 1970's. Haha.

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The film has an IMDb rating of 8/10. That suggests a damn good film.

Not sure why you wrote that. I never mentioned the film, just that I didn't see him looking like Selleck...

I did write my take on it here though:-
https://moviechat.org/tt1798709/Her/62e928356f7d917956a86745/The-premise-here-of-an-AI-outgrowing-their-human-partner-is-flawed

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I added my own two cents. The OP isn't on MovieChat so there's no point responding to him. You're the only one on this thread who I know still posts here. Nothing more than that.

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Ah okay, fair enough.

Have you watched this then? I never when it first came out but it was pretty interesting (asides from that plot hole-ish point in that link I gave above).

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No, I haven't seen it. But the 8/10 rating is pretty high. So it sounds like it's worth a watch.

I read your review. An AI with a personality leads us to the real question: Can a robot or a machine have an existential identity? Are we as human beings comparable to a "robot" in that respect, whereas we are made of flesh and an AI "robot" is constructed of nonorganic materials? Or are "they" dead inside and only going through the motions?

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It is probably worth watching. Think it was on Netflix here when I finally got around to it...

For me it's pretty similar as to what I always thought with Data in Star Trek or any sci-fi android I guess - their computational speed is so much faster than a human's, it would be like waiting an eternity for any response. So, in that regard, it would be better if they aren't existential.

But the AI stuff on the news is amusing. That is absolutely not AI despite all the buzz. It's interesting programming (did some work on semantic analysis in NLP myself a few years ago) but there is absolutely no intelligence behind it...

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Haha! You summed it up perfectly. There is no real intelligence to AI - YET!

They may create real living beings at some time in the future. But it's primitive programmed reactions to stimuli at this point.

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yeah

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It’s such a bland poster and reveals nothing about the nature of the film but that Phoenix is the star and can grow a ‘stache.

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They might as well have called it Him.

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People might reasonably have concluded the the person pictured must be trans.

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