History Fridge / AIArtificialIntelligence

** The capacity for eating food as a social activity is probably just a feature David's programmers neglected to implement in their prototype; a particular oversight that also plagued some of the robots in ''Film/WestWorld'', it's worth noting. One does have to wonder whether the engineers thought to correct that in the later models, or just went the cheaper route and instructed future "parents" not to allow their robot children to join them at the table for meals.

** The capacity for eating food as a social activity is probably just a feature David's programmers neglected to implement in their prototype; a particular oversight that also plagued some of the robots in Film/WestWorld, it's worth noting. One does have to wonder whether the engineers thought to correct that in the later models, or just went the cheaper route and instructed future "parents" not to allow their robot children to join them at the table for meals.

* FridgeBrilliance: RogerEbert, initially a critic of the ending, warmed up to it in his [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110707/REVIEWS08/110709988 "Great Movies" essay]] after gaining a new interpretation of the ending.

All the other human-looking robots in the movie were serving humanity either as household laborers, or {{SexBot}}s. A robot with a child's body wouldn't be much use as a laborer, and we didn't see any children in Rouge City. So where might Martin have seen another child robot? Simple: as the Flesh Fair ringmaster notes, there are "custom job" robots out there. The sex bot manufacturers doubtless have a very profitable sideline making child-sized custom robots for pedophiles that cost a little more and have the same basic programming as their other sex bots.\\

To keep a sexual version of the aforementioned "Trenton incident" from occurring, they add some "cute" physical feature (maybe a pair of anime-sized eyes?) to differentiate their child robots from real children. Martin has apparently met some such child robot in his past, though he didn't realize exactly what its function was.

* What happens to Teddy?

* [[spoiler:Would a lock of hair contain all that persons memories as well?Or are the future robots using some kind of as yet unknown technology to do that?And just how logical is it that clones would only live for one day?]]
* If eating spinach breaks David, why do they even give him any food at all? That's just offering him poison three times a day and expecting him not to commit suicide.

* [[spoiler:Would a lock of hair contain all that persons memories as well?Or are the future robots using some kind of as yet unknown technology to do that?And just how logical is it that clones would only live for one day?]]

* The ''entire'' ending. David gets to see his mom again after ''2000'' years waiting to see her again. [[spoiler:But he can only see her for ''one day'' and then she either dies or disappears forever. The last scene we see is them [[SleepCute sleeping cutely]] while Teddy looks on. Poor David's going to wake up to a nasty surprise. And what's he going to do afterward? Is he going to have to spend the rest of his life without her and with just Teddy for company? Or will he do [[DrivenToSuicide the unthinkable to "join her"?]]]]

* The ''entire'' ending. David gets to see his mom again after ''2000'' years waiting to see her again. [[spoiler:But he can only see her for ''one day'' and then she either dies or disappears forever. The last scene we see is them [[SleepCute sleeping cutely]] while Teddy looks on. Poor David's going to wake up to a nasty surprise]]...

* FridgeBrilliance: RogerEbert, initially a critic of the ending, warmed up to it in his [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110707/REVIEWS08/110709988 "Great Movies" essay:]]

* FridgeBrilliance: RogerEbert, initially a critic of the ending, warmed up to it upon repeat viewings. From his [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110707/REVIEWS08/110709988 "Great Movies" essay:]]

-->[[spoiler:Watching the film again, I asked myself why I wrote that the final scenes are "problematical," go over the top, and raise questions they aren't prepared to answer. This time they worked for me, and had a greater impact. I began with the assumption that the skeletal silver figures are indeed androids, of a much advanced generation from David's. They too must be programmed to know, love, and serve Man. Let's assume such instructions would be embedded in their programming DNA. They now find themselves in a position analogous to David in his search for his Mommy. They are missing an element crucial to their function.]]
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-->[[spoiler:Here is how I now read the film: These new generation mechas are advanced enough to perceive that they cannot function with humans in the absence of humans. David is their only link to the human past. Whatever can be known about them, he is an invaluable source. In watching his 24 hours with Mommy, they observe him functioning at the top of his ability.]]
-->[[spoiler:Now, perhaps, they can construct a mecha that they can love. They would play Mommy to their own Davids. And that mecha will love them. What does love mean in this context? No more, no less, than check, or mate, or π. That is the fate of Artificial Intelligence. A thinking machine cannot be understand except by something that is not a machine, and can think. David wants to be a real little boy. They want to be real mechas. No Mommy will ever, ever love them.]]

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** [[NostalgiaCritic Teddy well fuck Teddy, he's not real like David, he's just a bear.]]

* The "Trenton incident", mentioned in the movie, was revealed in the novelization. A homeless, drunk man was scanned with malfunctioning equipment and ripped apart on stage at the Flesh Fair, them thinking he was a mecha.

* FridgeHorror: The "Trenton incident", mentioned in the movie, was revealed in the novelization. A homeless, drunk man was scanned with malfunctioning equipment and ripped apart on stage at the Flesh Fair, them thinking he was a mecha.
* What happens to Teddy?

* FridgeHorror: The "Trenton incident", mentioned in the movie, was revealed in the novalization. A homeless, drunk man was scanned with malfunctioning equipment and ripped apart on stage at the Flesh Fair, them thinking he was a mecha.

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* FridgeLogic: Why couldn't [[spoiler: the evolved robots]] just [[spoiler: clone the ''clone'' of Monica every day?]]
** The process could not be repeated.
** Why can eating tons of spinach essentially short David out, requiring a professional cleaning, but ''being completely submerged in water'' does nothing to him whatsoever? Especially at the end when the water is ''debris-ridden''??
*** A robot replica of a small child needs a mouth, but not a stomach. It is logical from a design standpoint for that mouth to also serve as an easy limited-access port to internal workings. It is also logical for there to be an automatic seal or artificial sphincter that opens and closes to prevent water from getting inside to damage those delicate workings. Unfortunately, it is also "logical" for a robot attempting imitative behavior to notice that the humans around him are putting all that food ''somewhere'' inside them, and open up that sphincter, clogging its works with spinach.
** David only wanted to back to his mother, not his dad or brother. They never went through the bonding sequence with him... No wonder they were creeped out.