Blade Runner 2049 misses rise of creative artificial intelligence

The portrayal of artificial intelligence

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in Blade Runner 2049 takes on a nuance absent in the original film. In addition to the advanced intelligence of the replicants — human-seeming biological machines — there is also the holographic character Joi, a logical extension of today’s digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana or Amazon’s Alexa.

Aside from these two depictions, AI is largely relegated to the background: Performing simple tasks such as running machines, autonomously piloting spinners — Blade Runner‘s flying cars — and dynamically altering the environments that people inhabit, causing light to move with them as they walk through beautiful and brutal constructed spaces.

https://theconversation.com/blade-runner-2049-misses-rise-of-creative-artificial-intelligence-79821