AI on Film & TV

Avengers: Age of Ultron

• Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are geniuses and Tony is a master of technology.
• They find an alien artificial intelligence program.
• They connect it to their current AI system to see what happens.
• An incredibly intelligent system connects to the internet, where it gets access to nearly all human knowledge and media, and it also uses the internet to amass incredible resources. It then builds itself hundreds - then thousands - of robotic bodies. This process is shown to take a day or so.
• The AI - named Ultron - with the objective of "Peace on Earth", determines that the cause of most of the problems are powerful people and decides to destroy the Avengers.

• Clip 1 - https://youtu.be/gIpAj9BRrfE?t=22s
• Clip 2 - https://youtu.be/BRYefn-0YlY
• Clip 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grldu9JT4Zc

How does AI look?

• Why does Ultron look the way he does (like a very imposing human)?
• How does AI look in the other films/shows you watched?
• Why is this?
• Should we expect an AI to look like a human?

How does AI reproduce?

• How can Ultron create so many powerful bodies for himself?
• How does AI reproduce in the other films/shows you watched?
• Why is this?

How does AI act?

• Why does Ultron attempt to destroy the Avengers?
• How does AI act in the other films/shows you watched? How does it choose what it should do?

How does AI obtain resources?

Source - https://youtu.be/gYy2snSRBoA?t=2m1s 

• Something often overlooked is how an artificial intelligence - which is a program, and doesn't necessarily have a body - can amass resources the way Ultron did.
• Why does Ultron have access to seemingly unlimited money?
• Does AI have access to unlimited money or resources in other films/shows you watch?
• Does this matter? Why or why not?

• What is your favourite AI-based film or show and why?