Close Reading of Film Stills in I, Robot.

I am analyzing the two film stills taken from I, Robot that were posted on the course website. The first photo I will analyze is the interrogation scene between Detective Spooner and Sonny. Detective Spooner who is played by Will Smith is interrogating Sonny who is suspected of committing murder. Will Smith looks very aggressive and is creating some sort of barrier between him and the robot by folding his hands in front of him (as one of the classmates stated in class). This was not noticed when watching the film. I also noticed that when Sonny replies to detective Spooner when asked the question if robots can write symphonies. The Robot reverses the question on him. The camera changes the angle after this question as to give the appearance of the robot giving the interrogation. Very clever work..

The second film still I will analyze is the huge interrogation scene. Detective Spooner and Dr Calvin have been on a chase looking for Sonny. He has found refuge within an assembly line of robots of his kind. The film still seems every emotionless. Detective Spooner and Dr Calvin are out numbered and are at the same time in total control. The robots have no emotional expression and all speak at the same time. As highlighted in the film, there is also a weird contrast between the lawlessness of Sonny and the obedience of the rest of the robots.

Mile Stone #3 Research Game Plan.

My research game plan for Milestone #3 is to look for 3 more sources. (i already have 3). My goal is look for as many sources as possible. The sources that are needed to complete the entire paper are 1 book source, 1 scholarly and 2 encyclopedia entry. I know that research can take a long time so I'm going to give myself a head start. Professor Dragan informed me in class that one of my journalistic sources is not credible enough, i was not aware of this information due to the newspaper being from England. (i don't know much about international newspapers). In the future i will make sure not to do this again.

Sharing my topic and describing two research sources.

The research topic I have chosen is "Portraying Robots in film". In this paper i will review and analyze the film I, Robot. The focus of this paper is to emphasize the idea of Robots and artificial intelligence carrying out tasks for humans and possible doing an even better job at these tasks. Thus creating a society that is completely dependent on artificial intelligence as portray in most Hollywood movies like I, Robot. Most people believe that world is far from a full on robot revolution this reality may be closer than we think. There are many scholarly and non-scholarly articles that support this idea. In this blog post I will present two articles that support this idea. 

I found my first article on the online subscription data case "Lexis Nexis". The article I will preset is "Artificial intelligence could kill us because we're stupid, not because its evil says experts" by Andrew Griffin. This newspaper article emphasis that we do not hold the intelligence capacity to create intelligence forms of "life". Human emotion is a very specific trait that is unique to us. Although the robots of the future will not be able to comprehend emotion. There intellectual capacity will be far greater then ours. Thus teaching us the way of life. Benjamin H Bratton states "The real philosophical lessons of A.I. will have less to do with humans teaching machines how to think than with machines teaching humans a fuller and truer range of what thinking can be (and for that matter, what being human can be)." (p.1).

Another article that I will use in my research paper an article I found on the data base Academic search complete. "Machines without principals: liability rules and artificial intelligence" by David C. Vladeck. In this article Vladeck introduces the idea of morals and principals when it comes to robots. He also relates many of tis findings to films. Vladeck states "But the law is not necessarily equipped to address the legal issues that will start to arise when the inevitable occurs and these machines cause injury, but when there is no “principal” directing the actions of the machine. (p. 150). I look forward to using these articles for my research paper.