Culture news 40 years after James Cameron, Netflix warns us of the dangers of AI with this sci-fi film. This star fights against rebellious artificial intelligence in 2024
While artificial intelligence seems to be a very contemporary subject, it has fascinated cinema for 40 years. In 1984, James Cameron was already wary of it, and Netflix is taking up the torch in 2024 with its own film and a cult star.
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Artificial intelligence has fascinated cinema for 40 years
With the arrival of Chat-GPT, Midjourney and other Dall-e, artificial intelligence is more than ever at the center of attention. It must be said that it has provoked a lot of debate among cultural actors, whether at the level of Hollywood screenwriters, dubbing actors, translators or designers, to name but a few. But before this technology came to endanger the work of artists, it was already worrying for a completely different reason: its potential capacity to rebel against humanity. This subject already fascinated filmmakers 40 years ago, as James Cameron showed us for example with his film Terminator.
Because yes, let’s remember, the first opus of this legendary franchise was released 40 years ago, in 1984. In this science fiction film with Arnold Schwarzenegger, it was then a question of showing the threat that an army of robots equipped with artificial intelligence could represent if the latter realized that they could rebel, as Skynet did then. Since then, artificial intelligence has been treated many times and in many ways in cinema, from iRobot has Her Passing by Ex Machina, The Creatorand even Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning.
Netflix tackles the subject with a cult star in the casting
Today, while artificial intelligence is still at the heart of many debates, Netflix decides to add its stone to the building by offering its own science fiction film on the subject. In ATLASyou will indeed be able to discover the history of Atlas Shepherd, an analyst whose goal is to hunt down a robot that has rebelled. One thing leads to another, she will discover that this problem is much more important than it seems since the future of humanity could well be at stake. To accompany this synopsis, Netflix has unveiled a first teaser that you can discover in our automatic player at the top of the article.
By watching the teaser, you will be able to see that the main actress who will play Atlas is none other than Jennifer Lopez, international star of cinema and song. Alongside him, you will also be able to find Simu Liu (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) And Sterling K.Brown (American Fiction) to compose a casting which already promises a lot of things. In addition to this, the teaser also reveals some action scenes which already seem breathtaking with convincing special effects allowing real scenes to be staged. mechas which could make you think of video games Titanfall. If we already know that the film will be available on May 24 on Netflixhowever, you will have to wait a little longer to be entitled to a real trailer as well as a slightly more detailed synopsis.
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