ARTIFICIAL

INTELLIGENCE

Submitted by:

Lyra T. Basilio

Submitted to:

Lloyd Mark Razalan

INTRODUCTION

Artificial Intelligence also known as A.I. is a 2001 American science fiction drama film

directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie is about a possible future where artificial intelligence

is approaching the realm of human feelings.

A child robot who doesn't understand his place and what happened to his

mother's love, seeks to find a way to regain it. Seeking that to the point of obsession, he

becomes frozen in ice to be awakened centuries later by strange new robots seeking

knowledge of their creators.

This movie talks about a young boy/android that was given to a couple whose own

son suffered a condition that has effectively stopped his life. He's maintained is stasis in the

remote hope a cure might be found for what ails him. This young boy was designed and

programmed to show unconditional love and then is given to the couple. The father is an

employee of the company that designed the android. He brought him to their home and the

mother meets and sees him for the first time. She has to say several words for the

unconditional love to be directed at them but that is admitting her son won't be coming back,

a very hard situation. She finally accepts the situation she is in and says the word sequence

that actually turns the young boy into the loving son she needs, even if he is just an android.

Then, a cure for her son is found and he returns home.

What do you think will happened next? Will he stays on the couple who adopted him

with their real son or he will leave them to find another couple to adopt him? There are

several situations that our mind can create but to know the real story just watch this movie

Artificial Intelligence.
PLOT

In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting rise of the

ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the

continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching the point of creating realistic robots

(called mechas) to serve them. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, a

robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics

employee Henry and his wife Monica. He is an artificial kid which is the first to have real

feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who

adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an

incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real

son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically. Though he

gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible

for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to

discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and

machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

BODY

Henry and Monica, whose son Martin is currently in cryostasis until a cure can be

found for a debilitating disease he is stricken with. His mother Monica has not held up well

emotionally under the conditions that have taken her son from her. Hoping to help her cope,

her husband Henry, a Cybertronics employee, takes part in a test wherein they would be able

to be a family to the company's newest mecha: David, the culmination of Hobby's research to

make a robot that can 'love.'

At first, Monica is angry, believing her husband is trying to 'replace' Martin. However,

Monica tries to adapt to David. Henry also informs her that if they choose to keep David that

she must 'imprint' herself upon him. However, if there was ever to come a time that she chose

not to want him, due to the imprinting being permanent, David would need to be sent back to

Cybertronics to be destroyed. After some time, Monica decides to perform the imprinting

process; she reads a list of words that will activate David's emotional simulation. When she

does, David calls her "mommy" and begins to act like a real child. To provide David with

another form of companionship, she gives him a robotic teddy bear called Teddy, which once

belonged to Martin.

One day, a cure brings Martin back to health. Martin then tries to get David into

trouble in a number of ways. First, he cajoles David into eating spinach, which causes David

to malfunction and need cleaning. Another time, he tells David to cut off some of Monica's

hair while she sleeps as a gesture of love, but the incident makes Henry think that David was

trying to attack his wife. At Martin's birthday party, one of his friends decides to test David,

to see if he has a way to prevent himself from pain. The 'test' causes David to grab onto

Martin, crying 'keep me safe.' The two fall into the Swinton's swimming pool, where it seems

that David was attempting to drown Martin.

Henry decides that David is no longer safe, and convinces Monica to return David to

be destroyed. Monica tries to take David to Cybertronics under the cover story of going on a
picnic. However, she cannot bring herself to take David directly to Cybertronics and

abandons him in a forest, along with Teddy. Meanwhile, a male-prostitute mecha, Gigolo Joe,

arrives at the apartment of a woman he sees regularly. He changes his appearance to suit her

and, entering the bedroom, finds her dead. Her husband appears and kisses his wife, saying

"I might have killed you but you killed me first". Joe retreats, realizing that the woman's

husband is framing him for the murder. Joe rushes out of the apartment building and cuts off

his registration tag to avoid detection by the police.

Still in the forest, David concludes that his abandonment was because he is not real

like Martin, and that if he were to find the Blue Fairy like in the story 'Pinocchio,' she could

make him real, and he would then be able to go home. Journeying through the woods, he

comes across a number of abandoned, obsolete and broken-down mechas searching through

Cybertronics' junk piles for spare parts to repair themselves. The mechas are rounded up by a

man named Lord Johnson-Johnson and taken to a 'Flesh Fair' where mechas are destroyed for

the amusement of anti-mecha fanatics. David is brought into the ring along with the mecha

named Gigolo Joe. When a few buckets of acid are to be dropped on both himself and Joe,

David cries out, showing fear like a real boy. The crowd revolts against Johnson-Johnson and

amid the resulting riot, David and Joe are set free and leave.

Escaping into the nearby woods, David tells Joe of his search for the Blue Fairy. Joe is

confident that they'll find her in a place called Rouge City. Hitching a ride with some

teenagers, they make it to the city: a mecca of adult entertainment that rivals Las Vegas and

Disneyland. Their journey takes them to a place where a knowledgeable computer

representation of Einstein, called Dr Know, tells them that the Blue Fairy can be found "at the

end of the world where the lions weep". Joe explains to David that Dr Know must mean a

place called 'Man-hattan,' as many mechas have gone to the end of the world and have never

come back. David is all for going to 'Man-hattan' despite the danger. However, Joe tries to

deter him, saying that it could be a trap. As David and Joe leave the building, Joe is accosted
by officers, who have come to arrest him for murder, a fact David is unaware of. Seeing a

vehicle sitting nearby called an Amphibicopter,' David takes the controls, and manages to

release Joe from the clutches of the officers. Joe gets in and takes the controls, guiding them to

'Man-hattan.'

Their journey leads them to the flooded New York City where they find the

Cybertronics building, on which sit statues of lions weeping water from their eyes. David

enters a room, where he finds another mecha that looks just like him. However, feeling this

duplicate could be planning to take his mother away from him, David destroys it in a jealous

rage. It is then that Professor Hobby reveals his presence, telling David that he used Dr. Know

to lead him 'home,' telling David that the Blue Fairy is only a myth. Hobby leaves David

alone, to fetch the team members who designed him. David wanders around Hobby's office,

finding the different mechanical items that were instrumental in his creation, as well as fully-

boxed 'David' and 'Darlene' units for consumer purchase. The sight of them makes David feel

even worse, in that his journey to become human has yielded no way for him to become

human to regain his mother's love. David makes his way outside the Cybertronics building,

and then jumps off into the waters below. As he floats in the water he suddenly sees

something glowing in the distance. Before he can move further, a claw from the

Amphibicopter snares him, dragging him out of the water. Above the water, David tells Joe

that he saw the Blue Fairy, and that she is down below. However, before Joe can help David,

another Amphibicopter appears and captures Joe. Before he is pulled skyward, Joe activates

the Amphibicopter for David to go underwater.

David and Teddy pilot the vehicle deep into the submerged city, finding themselves in

the remnants of the Coney Island amusement park. David guides the craft to the park's

Fairytale Land, and within a 'Pinocchio-themed' area, finds a statue of the Blue Fairy.

However, maneuvering the craft causes a nearby Ferris wheel to collapse, trapping the
Amphibicopter near the statue. David is not at all concerned, but is elated that he has finally

found the Blue Fairy. He then begins to 'pray' to her, wishing to become a real boy.

SUMMARY

The story behind A.I. was originally conceived by Stanley Kubrick, who confided in

Steven Spielberg on the project. On Kubricks sudden death in 1999, his widow persuaded

Spielberg to take over the film. The film is set at a future time when progress in robotics poses

a possible threat to the human species. David, a robotic boy, is the artificial life form that is

capable of experiencing love. As a prototype, he is given to a couple whose real son is in what

appears to be an irreversible coma. After a rough start, David and his mother bond.

The real son miraculously awakes from the coma, returns to the family and tricks

David into doing dangerous things. The father feels that they must return David to the

manufacturer for destruction, but the mother allows David to escape. For the rest of the film

David seeks to be reunited with his mother, and, for a time, is joined on his quest by Gigolo

Joe, a robot designed to be a male prostitute. David becomes frozen in the ocean, and,

millennia later long after the extinction of the human species robots of the future rescue

him and allow him to reunite with his mother for one day that will last in his mind for

eternity.
REFLECTION

The movie A.I. was something I saw when I was younger, and I remember it marking

a deep impression even as a child. From the environmental changes, ability to manipulate

population, and creation of artificial intelligence, the plot felt like it is so futuristic, ambitious,

but yet seems so attainable, probably not for the next few decades, but it does seem possible

with the rapidly advancing knowledge on science and technology. And this is exactly what

the principle of principle of stewardship and creativity talks about.

The advancement in our scientific endeavor is so advanced that we are actually

venturing on creating artificial intelligence. As of the moment, scientists arent able to create

the android type of artificial intelligence as seen in the movie. However, the use of this

technology is so extensive that its use is numerous, and even aids in our daily lives. These

include stock investments, interpretation of medical images, in heavy industry as a

replacement for factory workers, automated online assistance, and automatic control of

aviation, and even for interactive toys for children. These technologies have been so advanced

that even in a board game competition or financial simulation competition, these technologies

win over the actual professionals.

A lot of these technologies are something we, who are so accustomed with the

modern, highly industrialized livelihood, and indeed they make our lives much easier,

practical and efficient. However, we know that losing the sense of stewardship and creativity

could be harmful for the environment, and us.

As seen in the movie, highly industrialized civilization caused drastic decrease in

population due to the massive destruction of the environment, depicting abuse of the

principle of stewardship. In addition, people of the movie have created an artificial

intelligence to satisfy various and selfish gratification such as solitude, entertainment and sex.
 As a result, we see uncontrolled technologies in the movie, and even resulting in to

human extinction. While this may be an exaggerated example, this is not absolutely a fiction

as we see our environment being rapidly destroyed, and a lot of people are more distant, lack

personal communication, and blind to the societys problems despite the abundant

information and means of communication available.

Though these are obvious observation of the movie, one thing was peculiar about the

plot, was its ending. The movie ends with David feeling Finally finding his mother, and

having the best day of his life. However, this experience was not a true one since the mother

was a clone, as was manipulated for the sole purpose of pleasing David. And after this, he

terminates life, and goes where dreams are born. For me, this line represents the

acceptance of death after reliving the crafted happy experience with his mother because he

no longer have a purpose in this world, because he was able to please his client, the mother.

For me, this ending, a seemingly happy one, felt like hit had a deeper, ironic message about

life, which leaves me with pent up feeling.

Despite being a movie released 2001 and considering the amount of technological

advancements we have achieved since the scrip writing of its script, this situation again

maybe a future scenario for us. And it is important to carefully evaluate when engaging in

activities that involves scenarios which can possibly violate bioethical principles, as this can

pose a potential danger for a lot of people, when blinded by the seemingly impeccable effects,

and fail to see the consequences.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

David, an innovative Mecha created by Cybertronics and programmed with the ability

to love. He is adopted by Henry and Monica Swinton, but a sibling rivalry ensues once

their son Martin comes out of suspended animation.

Gigolo Joe, a male prostitute Mecha programmed with the ability to mimic love, like

David, but in a different sense.

Monica Swinton, David's adopted mother who reads him The Adventures of Pinocchio.

She is first displeased to have David in her home but soon starts loving him.

Henry Swinton, an employee at Cybertronics, husband of Monica and David's

adopted father. Henry eventually sees David as dangerous to his family.

Martin Swinton, Henry and Monica's first son, who was placed in suspended

animation and David's adopted brother. When Martin comes back, he convinces David

to cut off a lock of Monica's hair.

Professor Allen Hobby, responsible for shepherding the creation of David. He resides

in New York City, which is crippled by the effects of global warming but still

functioning as Cybertronics' headquarters. David is modeled after Hobby's own son,

also named David, who died at a young age.

Lord Johnson-Johnson, the owner and master of ceremonies of the Flesh Fair.

Gigolo Jane

Teddy, David's android teddy bear.

 Dr. Know, a holographic answer engine.

The Blue Fairy.

Mecha comedian destroyed at the Flesh Fair.