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Opening of A.I. Screened At M.I.T. Described Completely Here... Along With Jeanine Salla's Biz Card!
Hey folks, Harry here.... so excited about getting this I wanted to share faster than I could type... hehehe.... Anyways... if someone can translate SANSKRIT, or is that KANNADA, its hard for me to tell at this resolution, Scan down and see what you can see.... I think that's what that is... Anyway... This is pretty cool, especially since the event just ended an hour or so ago and we already have the update with scans up.... I think that's pretty damn good! Enjoy.... GOD I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS ONE!!!
Hi, Harry,
Long time reader; first time poster here. (Actually, there's two of
us here. Call us Toasty and XLAT.)
Warner Bros. and the MIT AI Lab CLICK HERE jointly
presented a "media event" at MIT this afternoon. (A lecture hall
full of people, perhaps 1/4-1/3 journalists, attended.)
Kathleen Kennedy, an A.I. producer, and Haley Joel Osment joined
Rodney Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, and Sherry Turkle of MIT and Ray
Kurzweil in a presentation and Q&A of both the movie and the current
state of A.I. research.
The really great thing was that they showed a clip, the intro of the
movie, it seems. It's the first time footage has been shown to the
public. (No cameras were allowed.) Speilberg couldn't be there, but
they played a videotaped intro he gave, where he basically said that
he hopes the movie will spark discussion about the issues raise.
Here's a summary of the clip:
[Minor spoiler warning for opening scene]
There was an opening narration over a shot of crashing waves, then
some brief shots of humanoid outlines. The main scene was of William
Hurt's character giving a talk in what appeared to be a classroom of
some sort, to a number of students. There was a woman there who was
what they called a "mecha". He stabbed her in the hand, and she felt
the pain, but when asked how she felt about what he just did to her,
she said, "But you did that to my hand." He asked her to strip, and
she was about to, until he told her to stop.
He then clicked some button in her mouth, and her face opened up,
Men-in-Black-style, to reveal a robotic skeleton. He pulled a little
module from her forhead, presumably the CPU, and talked about how he
proposed that they build robots with emotions (a bit hokey, I know),
and basically spoke that bit that's in the 2nd trailer, except
extended. (Several references to "mechas" were cut for the trailer.)
Hurt's character said that he wanted to build a robot that could
experience "love", and one character said that tons of lover mechas
already get shipped... Another character: "Yeah, and you're their
best customer!" :)
Hurt's character went on to talk about how he's talking about real
love, not sexuality, and that there was going to be a great market
for this because parents who can't have kids want a child who loves
them.
One student then raised the question of: If the robot child loves the
parents, what obligation do the parents then have? Must they love
the child back?
The final shot was of everyone in the class murmuring to each other,
discussing this, while the aforementioned mecha put on some lipstick
and looked at her nails or something.
[/spoiler warning]
During the Q & A session Kathleen Kennedy repeated what's been said
before, that Kubrick and Spielberg worked together for many years on
the ideas for this movie, and that, at one point, Kubrick had
suggested that Spielberg direct it since it was "closer to his
sensibilities".
One person asked how working with Jeanine Salla was, and Kathleen
Kennedy said she had worked "mainly on special effects". Haley Joel
Osment said that he didn't get a chance to work with her much
"because she worked in post-production".
Kennedy at one point said that Spielberg pretty much wrote the
screenplay alone (after his discussions with Kubrick and the reading
the treatment that had been written), and that it was a personal
project for him.
[minor spoiler warning]
Haley Joel Osment said that the way his character is protrayed is
that his actions in the beginning of the film aren't mechanical, per
se, but were more deliberate. He wouldn't slouch in a chair, etc.
But then, toward the end of the film, he became more "human" in
action. One interesting note is that his character does not ever
blink during the film.
[/spoiler warning]
There were some other general questions about how it was to work on
this film, etc., whose answers I don't recall.
Later, someone asked about the relationship between Evan Chan and
Jeanine, and Kennedy just said that she did know Jeanine attended
Evan's funeral.
Finally, Kennedy left some of Jeanine's business cards for us to pick
up. We've scanned it in for you all to enjoy. [Harry, it's
attached.]
One note: The two sides seem to be mostly identical, except one side
is in another language (Sanskrit? Arabic?), but there's an extra line
at the very bottom of the non-English side. Can anyone translate the
card, especially that last line?
- Toasty & XLAT
FYI, below was the announcement for the event. You probably don't
need to post this on the website.
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Everyone is invited to the following public media event on Monday, April 30th
"A.I." The Movie -- Panel Discussion and Talks
Monday, April 30th
3:30pm -- 6:00pm
Room 10-250
(enter 77 Mass. Avenue)
Set in a distant future, A.I. is a tale of humanity in an age of
intelligent machines. The story focuses on the relationships and
challenges involved when a robotic boy, the first programmed to
love, co-exists as a member of a family. After a series of
unexpected circumstances leave him without final acceptance by humans or machines, he journeys to discover where he truly belongs.
www.AIMovie.com - Debuts June 29, 2001.
Panel Discussion and Talks By:
Kathleen Kennedy - Producer of "A.I"
Haley Joel Osment - Actor
Rodney Brooks - MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Cynthia Breazeal - MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Sherry Turkle - MIT Program in Science, Technology & Society
Ray Kurzweil - Kurzweil Technologies
A short preview clip of the movie will also be shown.
Sponsored by the MIT AI Lab and Warner Brothers
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Sounds fuckin' A to me! Or something!
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I beat ya, ya bastard. That's what ya get fer saying "I'm First".
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AI will Suck
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or uncle molestor? good informacion el harry!
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Love that they're playing along...
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AI will still suck. Spielberg has been taking cues from the upstart, go-getter, avant-cheese visionary Michael Bay. AI will choke on its own poo. And the viewing audience will be lucky if Spielberg gives us a reacharound while F***ing us in the ass with this half baked, fully stolen idea (which is only gonna be ET2 anyways).
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really man... thanks for the insight
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AHAAHAHAHAHA!!! That wacky Spielberg, he's too funny. So, I guess they went with "unblinking" and "not slouching" as the ways to make the robots look like robots rather than the inner lights, symetrical features, wider than human eyes, etc. CHEAP! CHEAP!!! Is it just me, or wouldn't you give robots trying to pass as humans the ability to blink? Soul-less staring eyes just are not what I would want in my automatronic kid or sexbot. Uh oh... William Hurt. More Box Office Poison entering the game? Damn, he's was good in Lost in Space.
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This sounds a lot like Data from Star Trek the next generation.... no?
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I'm thinking maybe the whole "sanskrit" side isn't actually sanskrit, but some kind of code we should try to decipher?
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you do realize this was written by stanley kubrick and speilberg was his choice for director dont you??
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The language on the second image happens to be Kannada. The line by line translation (which doesn't make much sense) goes like this:
Dr. Jeanine Salla Ph.D.
God/Queen's Proud
Throne
Bangalore World Factory
New Hell
212.502.1177
[email addresses]
Old (don't know what the second word means) Dust -
Are you a fluent Kannada speaker?Could the indecipherable word be in a different language or something, or is it just an obscure word? Grateful for any help in solving this damn AI puzzle..
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If he does half as good a job with writing the screenplay as he did with Poltergeist then it should be a very believable story with credable characters and dialogue. But there's always the danger that he'll pour on the sugar and make us reach for the sick bucket just when he should be going for the throat. Anything has got to be better than Bicentennial Man (and I'm a Robin Williams fan!).
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That movie was great! Why don't they make horror films like that anymore? Anyway, I'm sure this film will be another tear jerker from gool ol' Steve (not that this is a bad thing). That scene in 'Hook' when Robin Williams remembers his "happy thought" still brings me to tears.
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As a member of ARM. Look at their website ... he practically cut and paste their manifesto into his post.
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May 01, 2001 1:17:03 AM CDT
That whole first scene sounds like a rip-off of A CLOCK WORK ORA
by wooksie
Does anyone else think so? Its great that Speilberg is taking over from Kubrick, but come-on he doesn't have to rip him off.
That first scene is almost exactly the same as the one where Malcolm McDowell is harrased and embarrased in front of a crowd after being "rehabilitated" in prison. Oh well, I still think the movie will be great! -
Remember Disneys Penocio.... remember the island where the bad boys hung out playing pool and smoking ......now remember that shot with Law and HJO in what look s like an amuzement arcade......see where I'm coming from?
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Remember Disneys Penocio.... remember the island where the bad boys hung out playing pool and smoking ......now remember that shot with Law and HJO in what look s like an amuzement arcade......see where I'm coming from?
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did you know that. yep it is the truth, go over to the news part of www.nineinchnails.net and it's in there somehwere. ministry is going to be debuting a live new song on the film Ai and will feature on the soudtrack. maybe this film won't be cute......
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Steven seems to be coping Michael's style in each pic. Let's face it, Steven's days are counted, and Michael is the new proclaimed GOD of action movies. Pearl Harbor will make SPR look like Sesame Street. EVERYONE wants to be like Mike, including Spielberg.
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Michael Bay is the Antichrist. You want brilliance in directing? David Fincher, Bryan Singer, Guillermo del Toro and many more. "Bad Boys" was horrible, "The Rock" was so-so (only Ed Harris and David Morse saved it), and "Armaggeddom" was one of the biggest pieces of shit that was ever shown on screen! "Deep Impact" was a far better movie, even thought that it is a just fine picture. Michael Bay has proven SO MANY times that he hasn't got the slighest idea of where to put the camera, he just put it anywhere that has a weird shot. Every shot can be cool, but when you put one after another... well, I vomit. Even the "Pearl Harbor" trailer smells like shit... the japanese attacked at dawn... and you see kids playing baseball, couples in the beach (well, ahem, maybe they're waking after a night of wild sex... but Bay won't show it to us). I'm European, and this flick smells like another huge piece of American propaganda ("Saving Private Ryan", "Men of Honor", and many more): poor americans being beaten by evil foreigners this time (yeah, of course it happened, but why not making a movie about how America supported dictatorships in Spain, Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, Cuba, and many more?). This movie is only a copy of "Titanic", they intend to win all categories at the Oscars, to be the highest grossing movie of all times, adding to a young talented cast huge amounts of money... but Bay is far - very, very far - from being James Cameron. Even Jan de Bont was a better choice.
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Spielberg is no Jedi - he's read his own press hype for so long he doesn't know when he's overdoing a film (which is just about all of them). Spielberg's only good when he's reined in by his producers. Examples of Spielberg under the thumb of the producer? "Jaws" and the original "Raiders." Examples of Spielberg out of control? "Temple of Doom", and "1941". Btw, for a hilarious hour-long pout from Stevie, listen to him on the DVD for "1941" - "It's a shame Americans couldn't understand my film, and we had to go to Europe to be appreciated." Those dopey Americans couldn't find the humor in an incoherent comedy about the beginnings of WWII. Maybe he should have tried to make a comedic "Schindler's List" - oh but that must have been the *serious* part of WWII. Rule of Spielberg: Pacific war = comedy, European theatre = Oscar-bait. Interesting tidbit in the DVD: John Wayne read the screenplay for "1941" for the Robert Stack role and tossed it back to SS - "This isn't funny - I lived through those times and this movie is a mockery of brave people living in terrifying times. Don't make this movie." Fortunately for us, big-brained Steven didn't listen to the Duke and served up this cinematic abortion for Christmas. Thanks Stevie!
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Sheesh - He's not one of *me*, pal. And as to judgement calls - he dumped THE Amy Irving for the co-star of "Space Camp?" Even John Williams couldn't score THAT Priceless Moment.
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May 01, 2001 2:09:11 PM CDT
Kate Capshaw = incredible actress in her own right?!?
by domisinnerchild
You're kidding right? "IIIIINNNNNDDDYYY!!!!!" I guess she has the ability to change her hair color in her three most recognizable roles, Temple of Doom (blonde), Dreamscape (Red), Space Camp (Brown). Makes her sort of a Joe Vs. the Volcano thespian.
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Correct me if im wrong, but, the letters everyone is describing as sanskrit look more like a blurry web address
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wait, yes it is sanskirt, i wasnt looking in the write place
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wait, yes it is sanskirt, i wasnt looking in the right place
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I noticed on the trailer for A.I. that Kubrick gets NO CREDIT!!! What is that???? Is Speilberg nuts???
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First: For the comment regarding scene one as being a rip off of "A Clockwork Orange". You know that Kubrick in fact wrote a very detailed draft of Act I and Act III for the movie right? So Spielberg hasn't stolen anything but is using what Kubrick wrote for that scene. And about the Michael Bay comment. At first I thought it was just too ridiculous to respond to. But Michael Bay? His movies are all garbage. Armegeddon - as entertainment was I suppose okay. As a cinematic creation, it was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. Word to the wise: Using explosions and cheap sentimentality doesn't make a good director.
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