I, Robot - saw it

I saw I, Robot this afternoon. The 3-D animation was incredible; I found it hard to tell what was real and what was not. The mood was dark and the setting was futuristic, taking place in Chicago 2035. Apparently 30 years from now, we are gonna be driving electric cars and everyone will have their own robot. The robot industry is a hot one in the future. The robots are programmed with 3 laws that prevent them from ever harming a human being. The generation of robots that are introduced in the film are programmed to express emotion, making the solid line between man and machine blurred. Wil Smith's character is skeptical of all robots and is particularly disturbed when the creator of the robots commits suicide by jumping from his office window on to the lobby floor of the company's head quarters. This leads him into battle with a new generation of robots who can ignore their programming and rebel against commands and evoke harm on humans. I thought the robots were nicely rendered and their movements were mechanical, yet fluid. I thought it was interesting that the robots were made to look human. The faces of the new robot generation were expressive with multi-faceted eyes.

The "ghost in the machine" in the machine theory is touched on but not fully explained. Something about snipets of code that, overtime, form into some sort of psyche. I thought this was interesting as a programmer because it seems almost fantastical to think that computer code could enable something human.