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discusses natural language processing with grammar rules, planning and machine learning, and includes coverage of meta-programming, meta-interpreters and object-oriented programming in Prolog.
Advantages: Good graphics, very involving Disadvantages: Disturbing, far too long
cuddly toy we know of now is not a thing of the past, but a thing transformed. In fact, this film does feature robots, in their numbers, but robots that behave much like human beings. That cuddly toy can now walk and talk, reply to questions and, to an extent, think. Technology companies have created robots, also ones that have very realistic human appearances and textures, that can be programmed to respond how we like.
From my rather basic knowledge of technology, I would be willing to accept that this much may be possible, but as always, a film like this needs to step right into the unknown.
Story
So one day a little boy robot called David is created to replace a boy who is not expected to wake from his coma. It can not only think for itself, but can feel. Consequently, the poor thing struggles to come to terms with its or his ...
Advantages: directed by Steven Speilberg- The story draws you in /good fantasy sci- fi story Disadvantages: some might find it slow in places ....
starts :A couple have their sick son ''cryogenically frozen until a cure is found for his terminal illness''(what ? that could happen!) in the meantime they decide to take on realistic looking human robotic boy ''David'' who is the first android ever to be programmed with human feelings,and is as close to a human as you could get,he is taken on as a substitute for there son until their son is eventually cured of his illness. (Yes it is all very sci-fi .But all fits into the context of the story and quite believable)
Soon after this couples' boy gets cured of his illness, and really it is after the natural 'human' son's return home that the story really begins to take shape.The real son is not really very kind to his new 'android brother' jealousy come's into play,Android 'David' is very easily led into doing things much to ...
