Step into an evening where science and cinema come together. In Her (2013), we witness what seemed futuristic Artificial Intelligence a decade ago, but feels terribly relatable today. Let VUB researcher Andrés Algaba guide you as you set out to discover where the boundary between consciousness and machines lies.
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"It's a place that's not of the physical world. It's where everything else is that I didn't even know existed."
18:30 Doors open
19:00 Start presentation
19:30 Start Her
20:30 Short break
22:00 End of the film
About the researcher
About the film
About the Film
Theodore is a lonely man in the final stages of his divorce. When he's not working as a letter writer, his down time is spent playing video games and occasionally hanging out with friends. He decides to purchase the new OS1, which is advertised as the world's first artificially intelligent operating system, "It's not just an operating system, it's a consciousness," the ad states. Theodore quickly finds himself drawn in with Samantha, the voice behind his OS1. As they start spending time together they grow closer and closer and eventually find themselves in love. Having fallen in love with his OS, Theodore finds himself dealing with feelings of both great joy and doubt. As an OS, Samantha has powerful intelligence that she uses to help Theodore in ways others hadn't, but how does she help him deal with his inner conflict of being in love with an OS