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- Hello, I'm Olivia here with,
Shauna, and this is your PCJ Pop for the Week.
I recently rewatched a movie, great movie,
also from 2004, I robot with the one
and only Will Smith.
- Oh my God, why?
- So I have actually been on a bit of a rabbit hole
of like AI whistleblowers, like,
like there are a lot of AI engineers who are truly
like sounding the alarm, like we should be concerned,
we need legislation and there are some of the
original creators of this technology.
So I've really been in kind of that mind space
of everything, also good in San Francisco.
They have these humanoid robots
that they're like walking on the streets
in San Francisco or in Iroba.
- Yeah, in San Francisco.
- What?
- No.
- Yeah, like they're testing them, right?
They're still people like controlling them,
but they're doing little things like that.
So it's been kind of interesting as well,
like you just see like TikTok videos of it.
So Iroba is set in 2035, they call Will Smith
a techno-phobic cop.
And best of gets a crime that have been perpetrated
by a robot and ultimately leads to this larger threat
to humanity.
And I think that this movie came out in 2004, right?
It was at the time quite wild.
And people are like, oh, that's so far off.
That's never gonna happen.
- Yeah, 2034.
- We're not gonna have robots by then.
And now I just looked at what year it was.
Like, well shit, that's only nine years.
- Yeah, nine years.
I mean, if Elon has his way,
he's gonna release those robots in one to two years.
- Oh God, no.
- As well.
And so yeah, I think it's a really, really interesting one.
It's around our artificial intelligence,
our trust within the safeguards that we're putting into them
and the assumption that the super intelligent beings
can't outthink our protections that we put into play.
So I think it's just really, really up the time
and an interesting movie.
It is like very cyberpunk and silly.
- Yeah, I remember it speaking to like,
can the robots feel, do they have real emotions,
do they feel regret and pain and love and all that good stuff too?
- Yeah, it's super interesting.
Like what makes a human brain?
And like what is emotion and a soul?
I think that it grapples with that.
And you know, it's something that I've really been asking myself
as of late.
- Interesting.
- So yeah, I think if you haven't seen it in a long time,
watch it and be like, oh shit, we are much closer to that
than we were in 2000 before we give it a whirl.
Yeah, yeah, it's, but it's so late.
It's very futuristic, very like transparent computer screen.
How we thought we would see the world in 2035 back in 2004,
which I would fuck up the transparent computer screen.
Where do we get that tech?
- Dude, I just want those computers back
with that were like the max with the,
they're all colorful.
- Okay.
- You get like a hot pink one and a green one.
Yeah, I want that back.
And it was clear in the back of it.
You could see all that.
- Where is my country little computer?
- Yes, bring back country little computers.
- I don't want gray.
What is this?
- This is ugly.
- Oh, oh.
(laughing)
So as we say goodbye to the clankers,
I just kept saying, I don't want no clankers.
- No, get in clankers.
- And no, the clankers duck car jobs.
- You can't take the car, yeah.
They took the car jobs.
- Where can we watch?
- I robot if we were so inclined to live here.
- You can watch it on Hulu.
You can also buy it on, I think, on Prime Video as well,
if you don't have Hulu, but that's it for your PCJ Pop.
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