A line of dialogue was cut for time purposes which hinted that the story took place several years after 2022 which was also going to be the last year it ever snowed due to the global warming. This joke was meant to help explain why there was no snow present despite the fact that the first act of the film takes place during the winter.
The opening quote by Claude Shannon is taken from his paper "The Mathematical Theory of Communication." Shannon himself is credited with pioneering the idea of Aritifical Intelligence.
All of Kyle Wygant's scenes needed to be filmed first and quickly due to the fact that he enlisted in the U.S. Navy several months prior and was due to ship out by May of 2009. This explains his shaved head towards the end of the film which was worked into the story thanks to the lice reference.
The name of the prison for the criminally insane, The Fletcher Institute, is a reference to the Pink Floyd song 'The Fletcher Memorial Home' from the 1983 album 'The Final Cut.' Various Pink Floyd posters can be seen in the background throughout the film as well.
Motorvader's 3 Protocols are a warped parody of Issac Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics which were put in place to protect humans from ever being harmed by a robot.