For decades, the topic of Artificial Intelligence
has been discussed in sci-fi movies. An expert analyzed scenes from 9 movies and explained which one is the most realistic. Ironically, an action classic is rated the best.
Which expert are we talking about? Business Insider regularly invites experts to evaluate movie scenes on a specific topic in a YouTube format. This was done, for example, for the John Wick movies.
In another video, Sasha Luccioni evaluated AI scenes from various films. She is an AI researcher for a start-up focused on the ethical aspects of artificial intelligence. In the video, she ironically gives an old classic the highest rating.
Ironically, Schwarzenegger as Terminator is rated the best
Which movie is rated the best? In the video, Luccioni reacts to and rates several scenes from 9 different science fiction films and series, including:
- Iron Man
- Spider-Man: Far From Home
- Terminator 2
- Westworld
- Mission Impossible – Dead Reckoning
- Ex Machina
- 2001 – A Space Odyssey
- Minority Report
- Her
Particularly striking in the video is that Terminator 2 is rated the highest by her. The video shows one of the first scenes from the 34-year-old film, where Schwarzenegger analyzes the environment. He sees the model of motorcycles and other data based on the license plates. Luccioni states that this is quite normal nowadays. The recognition of objects has become quite good, especially regarding cars and roads.
The analysis of people, including height and weight, is also possible with AI nowadays. AI is already being trained to recognize criminals on the run using public cameras. The accuracy of AI depends on the visible context. To determine the height accurately, for instance, you need reference objects in the image.
The last scene she analyzes from Terminator 2 is the fight scene in the bar. She explains that it would be quite difficult for AI to conduct fights without weapons because it has to anticipate what the opponent will do. AI is not really good at this because humans respond spontaneously. She gives the scenes from Terminator 2 an 8/10 and explains: The film was ahead of its time, and she believes that the film has shaped later research in the field of formed
.
You can watch the entire video here:
How AI works is well demonstrated, its capabilities are still too futuristic
Which scenes does she also rate well? Her favorite single scene from the video comes from Westworld Season 1. The AI in the series is portrayed quite well. In the shown scene, you can see a dialogue tree that, according to Luccioni, is no longer used today but was used earlier.
Nowadays, chatbots are based on Large Language
models. They are trained with billions of words and rely on probabilities. These chatbots try to predict the next words. Within their learned information, AI can even improvise.
Additionally, a scene (Season 3) with AI drones is shown. She would not use AI drones because she finds that the risks are too high, and it is ethically problematic to let AI decide who dies.
The shown scene features facial recognition, which likely exists for drones today. However, she considers it unrealistic that a drone scans and uses information from a distant rifle to shoot someone. For AI, predicting the future is difficult.
Due to the unrealistic drone scene, she gives Westworld only a 6/10, although she found the AI dialogue tree the best.
AI is becoming increasingly important, as shown not only by sci-fi movies. Many people believe that AI can help us become more productive and assist us in both the workplace and everyday life. However, there are also contrary indications: There is evidence that AI does not make us more productive: Instead, it may make us cognitively bankrupt
