Ray Kurzweil Gives HER Two Thumbs Way Up
Film critics around the world, including this one, have already expressed their adoration for Spike Jonze’s AI romance Her. But most of us can’t speak expertly about the actual subject matter like noted futurist Ray Kurzweil.
Kurzweil, whose Age of the Spiritual Machines and The Singularity is Near have given us a glimpse of what our lives will be like with sentient artificial life all around us, put on his film critic cap last week announcing his approval for Jonze’s masterpiece.
What did Kurzweil have to say?
This is a breakthrough concept in cinematic futurism in the way that The Matrix presented a realistic vision that virtual reality will ultimately be as real as, well, real reality.
Word.
Kurzweil went on to compare Her to the much less successful (in his opinion) attempt at a movie about artificial life, Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, saying that Jonze provided a much better vision of a futuristic world with AI. He even went as far as giving many elements in the film a timeframe… 2020.
So hopefully we’ll all have our own loveable OSs in the next 6 years. Lord knows it’ll be better than sitting around on OK Cupid all evening.
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