Can synthetic intelligence really feel loneliness, and even love? And what wouldn’t it consider us after people have gone?
“Love Me,” absolutely essentially the most surreal and unique entry at this 12 months’s Sundance movie competition, stars Kristen Stewart and Steven Yuen as an AI-powered buoy and orbiting satellite tv for pc who strike up a romance after humanity has wiped itself off the Earth.
Apparently the only real two surviving sentient gadgets, they attempt to overcome their loneliness by chatting throughout hundreds of miles and over tens of millions of years, forging an unlikely bond.
Building up their personalities from scratch, they scour the web for details about the departed human civilization, mimicking the usually cringeworthy and absurd human habits they discover on influencers’ social media accounts.
“For us, it’s not really a movie about AI. But it’s a movie about us, seen through the lens of AI,” mentioned co-director Andy Zuchero, on the film’s world premiere in Utah on Friday. “Sort of trying to unpack humanity circa 2024.”
Stewart and Yuen present voices for the buoy and satellite tv for pc, and step by step seem on display screen in varied visible varieties because the AI machines assemble a weird metaverse of their very own.
“It’s about a world in which we’re no longer here,” mentioned Stewart, on the crimson carpet.
With performative clips on the web offering the one surviving imprint of humanity, “the echo that we’ve left is primarily screaming ‘Love me!'” added the previous “Twilight” star.
Stewart will premiere a second movie at Sundance on Saturday. “Love Lies Bleeding” portrays a violent and prison affair between a fitness center supervisor and a bisexual bodybuilder.
Sundance, a key launching pad for most of the 12 months’s most anticipated unbiased movies and documentaries, runs till January 28.
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