Sophia Demitrio

 Blade Runner - Taking place in 2019 (made in 1980s) - Replicants – robots almost identical to humans - They are declared illegal – the blade runners are ordered to kill any replicant upon trespassing - Super advanced technology portrayed - Replicates have been found – slaughtering people and trying to break into Tyrell - Roy Batty – a replicant  - Differentiating between robot and human – Yuring test - Replicants do not know they are replicants – “she is beginning to suspect” - Implant memories in replicants - Roy wants to know about his creation – he has figured out he is a replicant - Rachel crying – is she a replicant if she has emotion? - She says here’s a picture with my mother and talks about her childhood memories – but decker says they are implanted - JF Sebastian – genetic designer - He finds Pris on the street and lets her in - Decker analyzing Rachel’s photo that she left at his apartment – trying to find the woman in the back of the p...

2001: A Space Odyssey  - Beginning shows a desolate planet - inhabited by monkeys  - monolith – monkeys are fascinated by this foreign object  - monkey playing with bones  - monkeys are very humanlike - fast-forward - humans with advanced technology in space – spaceship, futuristic clothing - voice and facial recognition – foreshadowing technology … now something so common that our phones have this feature - picturephone – facetime - film was made during cold war – Russian  - food trays - iconic soundtrack - not one person of color - US – discussing an epidemic  - Something buried 4 million years ago - Was it put there on purpose or not? - Land on moon to find the same monolith from the beginning of the film  - HAL – artificial intelligence. Controls the spaceship. Claims to be foolproof, but that foreshadows the opposite - Hibernating humans  - Hel – Hal (metropolis)  - Hal – IBM (international busines...

 After watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, I am honestly so creeped out by artificial intelligence!!!!! HAL is so scary and it scares me how much we rely on machines to consider the possibility that they could have a mind of their own. When doing the craiyon generator, although it made a really cute picture for me, it still just scares me how it was even able to do that. Here is the cute picture: 

       Siri is hands-down the most popular and prominent artificial intelligence known to our society today. She is consistently at our fingertips, ready to answer any question we pose to her. When given the task of asking Siri questions only a human can answer, I gave a lot of thought about what differentiates a human from an AI that strikingly resembles a human. The most obvious answer is that humans have emotions and AIs do not. I asked Siri  , “Who do you love?”, to which she responded, “I’m not sure I understand.” Now, this response makes a lot of sense, as an artificial intelligence would not have the capability of loving someone. My next question to Siri was, “What is it like to be a human?”, to which she responded, “Interesting question.” Again, as expected, Siri would not know what it is like to be human so she could not answer this question.  Next, I asked Siri was, “are you afraid of anything?”. I wanted to pose this question to Siri because of t...

 September 11, 2022      Love Death + Robots was a very interesting series of shorts that I thoroughly enjoyed viewing in class. After watching quite the range of futuristic robot content, my favorite short from Love Death + Robots was Automated Customer Service. This was my favorite because I found it hilarious and the most entertaining, but it still had an interesting underlying message.      Set in the future, an elderly community has robots to do just about everything for them, from pedicures to walking their dogs. I found the opening scene to be humorous in the way that it depicted man's dependency on technology. Even the simplest tasks are done by robots in this foreshadowed society. As portrayed, humans are completely dependent on technology today. While the short uses exaggeration to show this, the hidden message behind it remains true. The short cuts to an elderly woman in her home with her vacuum robot. Suddenly, the robot turns evil and...

 Love, Death, + Robots  Zima Blue - Zima Blue – genetic or more like robotic modifications of a man  - He wants to be one with the cosmos - He is a machine – but poses as a man. Blurred the line between humanity and technology  - Yves Klein Three Robots - Robots experiencing human things  - Robots have personality and sense of humor  - Trying to understand how humans lived – they are in the future Exit Strategies - Political jokes foreshadowing the end of civilization - When talking about the people in the minefield vs. the wealthy who had more strategies to survive – reflects the classism in Metropolis  - The extremely wealthy 0.01% moved to mars leaving all of humanity behind – instead of saving the planet they are already on - “If these tech millionaires had been a little more socially inclusive” “they were mean to robots then robots killed them” The Dump - The man lives in a dump of trash  - A monster attacks – a mons...

 September 1, 2022 Metropolis is an extremely eye opening film exposing the classist ways of society: something that was an issue in 1927 when this film was released, and still exists today. Throughout this film, it is impossible to ignore the various biblical allusions that are made. I found this to be very fascinating and wanted to analyze a few of these analogies.  The first biblical allusion I noticed was the "new Tower of Babel." In the city of Metropolis, a huge, lavish tower is built, and everyone is in awe of it. The Tower of Babel is a story from the Bible that depicts humans in their evil ways of pride and arrogance. The moral of the story is that humans greedily want to be equal with God. This is exactly what you see in Metropolis: men striving for wealth and power, while trying to control everything in sight. You notice specifically how Rotwang is playing God: he creates his own human robot. He is even shown with the symbol of a pentagram: a sign of evil and Satan...

 Metropolis - Film notes Metropolis  - An upper/lower class analogy. The worker’s city is a lower-class underground while the upper class is above ground  - Freder sees the woman and falls in love – the children with the woman are dirty, barefoot (working class) - Humans behave like machines in the worker’s city – people fear machines, but the parallel between humans and machines reflects how the real fear should be of man and his evils - Reflects the way society has always been – higherups make decisions and look down on lower class - They work until death and are just replaced by a new set of workers  - While metropolis thrives with technology and cars, trains, planes, a huge city  - Tower of Babel – biblical analogy. The tower of babel represents the pride and arrogance of humans trying to be equal with God  - When Freder expresses his sympathy for the workers, his father is disappointed and does not care to understand  - Workers h...