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7:30 PM

Hi, AI

Film|Machines Like Us: Desires and Technology in German Cinema

  • Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hongkong

  • $ 80/64* *Tickets for full-time students, senior citizens, aged 60 or above, people with disabilities and the minder and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients.| Group Booking Discount: 20% off for purchase of 4 or more above standard tickets. | 20% discount to Goethe-Institut Hongkong’s students with a valid proof
  • Part of series: Machines Like Us: Desires and Technology in German Cinema

Hi, AI © Murnau Stiftung

Hi, AI
Director: Isabella Willinger
Germany | 2018 | 90 mins | In English, German, Japanese Italian, with English subtitles | DCP | Colour 
*Professor Dr Gordon Cheng and Dr Derek Lam will attend the after-screening talk. Conducted in English.

Best Documentary, Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival 2019
Nominated for Best Documentary, German Film Awards 2019
Nominated for NEXT:WAVE Award and Politiken's Audience Award, CPH:DOX 2019
International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam 2019

A robotic goal to love humans?

Humanoid robots are the new creatures. While scientists agonise over the philosophical questions surrounding artificial intelligence, robots are filling roles as receptionists, domestic workers, sex objects and others. In the US, Chuck is lonely and picks up a robot girlfriend, Harmony, who is programmed for empathy and compliments. In Japan, grandmother Sakurai is given the childlike robot, Pepper, by her son, so she is less alone.

While robotics is the future, Hi, AI provokes important moral and existential questions: How will we live together with machine learning and artificial intelligence? What will we win and what will we lose? And, who are the main characters in the new world? The interactions in the film bring about humorous moments, and many revealing hints too. We might come to realise that we can discover deeply human traits in the new artificial lifeforms.
 

About the speaker

Derek Lam © Derek Lam Dr Derek Lam teaches film as a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong.  He has worked for the Hong Kong International Film Festival (most recently on its retrospective of late Godard), Macau's Cinemateca Paixão, and the New York Film Festival.  He obtained his MFA degree in film directing at Columbia University and his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.


Gordon Cheng © Gordon Cheng has made pioneering contributions in humanoid robotics, neuroengineering, artificial intelligence for the past 20 years. Since 2010, Dr Cheng has been holding the Chair for Cognitive Systems, which he also founded. The Chair for Cognitive Systems is part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich/Germany.

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