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September 29, 2023

At the Movies: Humans take a back seat in the stunning AI, sci-fi epic ‘The Creator'

By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer

The artificial intelligence in Gareth Edwards' “ The Creator,” a visually magnificent if by-the-books epic, is not the AI making headlines at the moment. This is AI in the classic sci-fi mold — the Roy Battys of “Blade Runner,” the Avas of “Ex Machina,” the ones whose sentience we question and debate endlessly. Will the machines kill us? Take our jobs? Or do something that the movies haven't dreamed possible yet?

As the retired special forces guy cleaning up nuclear debris, Joshua (John David Washington), flatly tells a fellow worker when she posits that the AIs were indeed after their jobs: “They can have this one.”


 
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