{"id":89103,"date":"2019-04-01T02:02:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-matrix-20-years-later-the-artificial-intelligence-lives-in-us-column"},"modified":"2019-04-01T02:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T09:02:16","slug":"the-matrix-20-years-later-the-artificial-intelligence-lives-in-us-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/the-matrix-20-years-later-the-artificial-intelligence-lives-in-us-column","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Matrix\u2019 20 Years Later: The Artificial Intelligence Lives in Us (Column)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But in \u201cThe Matrix,\u201d the landmark of liquid-action sci-fi released 20 years ago today, the artificial intelligence comes at us in a uniquely teasing, forward-tilting, who\u2019s-that-in-the-mirror way. The movie is about a computer-company office drone, played with pinpoint charisma by Keanu Reeves, who gets tugged out of his existence by a rebel underground that unplugs him from the Matrix.<\/p>\n

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The term \u201cartificial intelligence\u201d was coined in 1956, but one way or another it has been the subject of just about every great science-fiction movie, from \u201cMetropolis\u201d to \u201cFrankenstein,\u201d from the paranoid fables of the \u201950s (about brainy robots and aliens with giant noggins who were like \u201cadvanced\u201d versions of ourselves) to \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey,\u201d in which HAL, the computer who talks like a wounded therapy patient, displays the anger and ego of a jilted human being. And by the late \u201970s and early \u201980s, the Machines Who Could Think were really taking over. \u201cAlien\u201d featured a technologically evolved monster with the metallic jaws, the helmet head, and the relentlessness of a demonic thresher, the most sympathetic character in \u201cBlade Runner\u201d was a replicant, and \u201cThe Terminator\u201d gave us a dystopia ruled by the machines, featuring a weaponized badass who was the ultimate programmed destroyer.<\/p>\n

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