Watched this at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.
The topics about AI and its future is pretty controversial especially with how much AI art and concepts have been talked and argued over the past years. This documentary has an concept that seems interesting about the AI future and Martine and Bina Rothblatt creation of Bina48 but wow, this documentary really drags.
AI, personally, is very complex to discuss due to the controversy but this documentary really doesn't offer much to discuss the insightful or interesting component about AI or regarding with Bina48 on the emotionally level. Rather it focuses on the themes of human connection, romance, and a love story that feels really uninteresting and doesn't offer much to what the movie is wanting to tell.
The production and sound designs are solid. Many of the conversation moments clearly show the participants are passionate about their works, lives and the ideas of AI but it feels so artificial and kind of laughable at times. I honestly can't really see any upside for robots involving into full on human connections. It feels like a sci-fi story but the filmmaker and participants are quite insane to think it can actually happen. To top it off, it was really boring.
Documentaries shouldn't be boring but this might just be one of the worst documentaries I have ever seen.
The topics about AI and its future is pretty controversial especially with how much AI art and concepts have been talked and argued over the past years. This documentary has an concept that seems interesting about the AI future and Martine and Bina Rothblatt creation of Bina48 but wow, this documentary really drags.
AI, personally, is very complex to discuss due to the controversy but this documentary really doesn't offer much to discuss the insightful or interesting component about AI or regarding with Bina48 on the emotionally level. Rather it focuses on the themes of human connection, romance, and a love story that feels really uninteresting and doesn't offer much to what the movie is wanting to tell.
The production and sound designs are solid. Many of the conversation moments clearly show the participants are passionate about their works, lives and the ideas of AI but it feels so artificial and kind of laughable at times. I honestly can't really see any upside for robots involving into full on human connections. It feels like a sci-fi story but the filmmaker and participants are quite insane to think it can actually happen. To top it off, it was really boring.
Documentaries shouldn't be boring but this might just be one of the worst documentaries I have ever seen.