M3GAN Is Back To Bring Joy Into Our Dreary Lives
For the record, I don’t recommend starting the day with an article about how AI will make the act of writing (basically what I’m doing right now), art, music and any other creative activity or skill obsolete. I don’t think humanity is ready, psychologically, to be rendered worthless in such a manner, nor will it ever be.
But then I saw that another trailer for M3GAN was available to watch, and my mood brightened up. This was quite ironic. M3GAN, of course, is worse than any actually existing AI on the market — DALL-E cannot actually kill you, at least not directly. But maybe if DALL-E did a boogie dance before stabbing people with knives, it might be more loved. That seems to go a long way.
M3GAN (short for Model 3 Generative Android) is a prototype for an ultra-high-tech line of children’s toys that promise to love them back. And M3GAN’s inventor knows the perfect test subject: her orphaned niece! The girl and M3GAN become fast friends, but it isn’t long before M3GAN starts getting ideas of her own. Built for one purpose — to protect the girl — M3GAN starts going to extremes to achieve that goal, which of course include murder. Now the creator of M3GAN can’t turn her off…and it may not be long before the doll senses Mom is a threat.
M3GAN will be released in theaters January 6. (The previous trailer said the 13th, but M3GAN strangled a few Universal executives until she got an earlier release.)
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