Late Night Sci-Fi
Has this very text that you’re reading at this very moment actually been written by a human? That instead of someone of thinking about these very words – dog happily snoring besides them as they think of the next sentence to add – this is all conjured up within the code of an AI utilising complex algorithms to find just the right words to say. I could deny it all of course. Remind you that I am human typing these very words you will be reading soon. But that’s what an AI would do. Can we ever be sure of the line divides the person from the machine?
This selection of films takes a look at just what it means to be a human. With objects gaining sentience and the notions of reality continually braking down, these films speak of a world in which all that we know is constantly changing and information becomes one of the biggest commodities that we have. These future shocks seem both very far away yet eminently recognisable.