{"id":10661,"date":"2014-04-20T19:56:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T02:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10661"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:08:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:08:14","slug":"seven-a-i-movies-that-are-better-than-transcendence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/seven-a-i-movies-that-are-better-than-transcendence","title":{"rendered":"Seven A.I. Movies That Are Better Than Transcendence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"byline\"><a itemprop=\"author\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/author\/richard-corliss\/\">Richard Corliss<\/a> \u2014 Time<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Johnny Depp dies and is reborn as a computer brain in <em>Transcendence<\/em>, the latest science-fiction thriller about artificial intelligence. Smart machines that may serve or dominate mankind are as old as Samuel Butler\u2019s 1872 novel <em>Erewhon, <\/em>or Karel Capek\u2019s 1920 play <em>R.U.R.<\/em> \u2014 and as recent as this week\u2019s episode of <em>The Simpsons<\/em>, in which Dr. Frink revives the dead Homer as a chatty screensaver. They have also inhabited some of the finest SF movies, including <em>Dark Star<\/em>, <em>Star Wars<\/em>, <em>Star Trek the Motion Picture<\/em>, <em>Alien<\/em>, <em>Blade Runner<\/em>, <em>The Terminator <\/em>and <em>RoboCop<\/em>. The list is inspiring and nearly endless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/67911\/transcendence-movies-artificial-intelligence-sci-fi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Corliss \u2014 Time Johnny Depp dies and is reborn as a computer brain in Transcendence, the latest science-fiction thriller about artificial intelligence. Smart machines that may serve or dominate mankind are as old as Samuel Butler\u2019s 1872 novel Erewhon, or Karel Capek\u2019s 1920 play R.U.R. \u2014 and as recent as this week\u2019s episode of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64996,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions\/64996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}