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Films

Her

David Taube exposes some of the difficulties in ever fully knowing the one we love.

People talk with their smartphones nowadays. Well, I guess they’re talking to their mobiles, and those devices are responding. But what if an electronic device could think, feel and love, as well as respond? The movie Her (2013) explores this question. A man falls in love with his computer’s program, which can learn and evolve, and which apparently has feelings and wants.

A person and a computer falling in love seems crazy, especially while the technology still doesn’t support artificial intelligence.

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