AI in Cinema: From "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "Mission Impossible" – 60 Years of Technological Anxiety

Also in the grand finale of the "Mission: Impossible" series, the story is not the focus, but the stunts - and that with full intention. "Final Reckoning" combines former parts and focuses more on dark war movies vibes instead of on spy action.

AI in Cinema: From "2001: A Space Odyssey" to "Mission Impossible" – 60 Years of Technological Anxiety

[Un article de The Conversation écrit par Mehdi Achouche – Maître de conférences en cinéma anglophone et études américaines, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord ] Since its beginnings, but what can more rigorously be qualified as artificial intelligence (IA) is a theme that dates from the 1960s. While robots and androids are easily used as the metaphor of the proletariat or dehumanized and objective individuals, the disembodied AIs are rather represe…

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Mission: Impossible — The AI Reckoning

In his review of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023), film critic Mark Kermode predicted that “we’ll be seeing a lot more of this stuff”, referring to the villainous AI that Tom Cruise chases around the globe (code-named The Entity). However, Kermode’s prediction has not entirely come to pass. Dead Reckoning is an excellent film that engages smartly with the quandaries that generative AI throws up. For one, AI cannot truly create anew; a…