Robot star illuminates human themes in nuclear disaster film

Sounds interesting.

Obviously haven't seen this, but realistically speaking when s#!t hits the fan...I can't see a western country abandoning their civilians. Indeed, wouldn't the foreigners be the most able to flee? If memory serves, the USA often has aid or military on standby to help when something major hits. Specifically regarding Fukushima, America dropped over 90 million dollars to aid Japan right in the danger zone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tomodachi

people fearfully wait to be picked for evacuation abroad to flee radiation. Politics is involved. The sick, people with >criminal records and foreigners are doomed.

Japanese thinking in a nutshell: leverage foreign assets (technology/land/resources/whatever) to save Japan, but those damn dirty gaijin? Screw 'em.

I heard about this a week or so ago and it sounds intriguing, and very sad indeed. Politics will always play a part in this kind of thing, which is the saddest aspect yet.

Sounds like a Phillip K. Dick-type scenario. I agree with the posters who say the movie could be interesting.

From the bits I can gather the writers seem to have set the movie before the era of artificial general intelligence, the singularity, when robots will be capable of recursive self-improvement.

If (when?) the technological singularity is reached, if computers and robots will be better able to self-programme, which programming language will they use? A human’s or their own? One of my favourite sci-fi themes is "Roko's Basilisk" when all-powerful robots one day torture those who didn't help them come into existence sooner.

Moral: Be nice to Pepper.

Sweet. Chappie was the best robot movie of the last few years.

on a different note - if we are all still around in the future ( the human race ) there will be robots - doing all sorts of things - and there will be Robot army's - just imagine giving the 25th generation 'Asimo' a Gun !!

We already have robot armies. They're called drones. They are flown around to kill people. No need for these robots to look human, although Boston Dynamics has that covered. Boston Dynamics has developed a human looking robot soldier that walks and balances itself of uneven terrain.

The story makes one wonder when this inhumanity will end-very sad.