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Doing some poking around upcoming movie news-sites and I saw the website for the movie "Stealth" which will be released late July. It is about a an AI Stealth Jet that goes haywire and has to be stopped before it begins a nuclear war.

So aside from the fact that it is about a self-aware AI, the film is directed by Rob Cohen, (xXx, Fast and the Furious) who was the executive producer of Knight Rider 2010.

Useless info, but still kinda cool, a direct connection and indirect all in one.

-Scott

Similar to the KR episode- "The Wrong Crowd". I have also prepared a synopsis on the same theme for an Airwolf episode, where a classified robot aircraft is stolen, then reprogrammed to attack key locations by a group of spies.

I saw something a while back about this movie. It sounds pretty cool but I always hate to see the AI as the bad guy.

Outside of KITT, Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the Emergency Medical Hologram in Star Trek: Voyager, I can't think of any other AIs that were good guys. Of course, I haven't seen many movies or watched much TV lately. I'd love to know of other good-guy AIs.

Now that I think of it, yeah there were quite a few Good Sci-Fi AIs, not just in KR or Star Trek, but Buck Rogers in the 21st Century also had a couple good-guy robots. Dr. Theopolis and his drone Twiki, Crichton (The flat-head robot). Then there's the cartoon Rosie in The Jetsons. I guess there's quite a number of them.

What about the androids in Star Wars? They had AI's that were good guys.

A few monthes ago, I saw the trailer for 'Stealth' and immediately knew it was going to pop up on KRO sooner or later.

Apparently, the way the AI goes bad is (DUN DUN DAAA) he's struck by a bolt of lightnning. Ignoring the fact that an electical charge would most likely destroy the AI's circuits, it's directly lifted from 'Short Circuit'. Except Johnny Number Five didn't try to kill the populace of an entire city.

Skav wrote:What about the androids in Star Wars? They had AI's that were good guys.

I forgot about those. LOL! Guess because while I watched a couple Star Wars movies as a kid, I never really got 'into' it. But you're right, C3PO and R2D2 come to mind here.

Phoenix915 wrote:Except Johnny Number Five didn't try to kill the populace of an entire city.

Oh geeze I totally forgot about Johnny Five! I used to love him when I was kid. Heck I still love him! He's definitely a good guy! He was actually programmed to originally be a war machine until the freak lightning strike made him go good. It's the reverse case compared to Stealth.

I was actually going to mention another AI if you can call it that. The Gadgetmobile in the Inspector Gadget movie. The car actually had eyeballs instead of head lights.

How about "Peebo" I think it was, that square like robot with red lighted head and star-like lights in it's torso that was on the Saturday Kid's Shows, one called "Space Academy"? Anyone remember him?

And can Herbie count? But then again maybe not as he wasn't really computerized. He was well... Herbie.

AND that stupid robot in that horrible movie, "Bicentennial Man." I hate movies where the robot is "good, and tries to be human," because they're all the same, and the same that they are is BORING and DUMB. Now, I LOOOVE movies where the robot goes bad, because even though they're all the same, the same that they are is COOL. I want to see "Stealth" BAD. Robot goes evil? Awesome.

Let us also not forget Crow and Tom Servo from MST3K,my personal gurus(heh,heh).

What about the robot from Lost in Space?

Or Bender from Futurama?

Both slightly irritating, but neither evil (well, Bender maybe....)

And how about Alpha from Power Rangers.



Oh my goodness, I can't believe I just said that...

-Scott

Ohh ooh-- and let's not forget the AI's of all AI's...

The ones from the movie... AI!

-Scott

I never saw AI but wish I had (hopefully MovieLink may have it some day?) Was the AI in that movie actually the good guy? I was looking at trailers and it seemed like they were hunting the AI for being a murderer or something. Without spoiling the ending, was the AI actually good or bad?

Another one I'd like to see sometime is I Robot.

Paul - Bender was a good guy, just a little more "human" than most robot characters I've seen on TV.

Oh, and what about Marvin the Depressed Android from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? (Which the movie just recently also came out!) He wasn't bad. Just depressed.

Don't forget PRISM from the Infocom Game "A Mind Forever Voyaging".

What? You've never heard of it?

http://www.atariarchives.org/cfn/12/02/0035.php

I spent WAY too much time there! LOL! I never had an Atari computer. We had the Atari 2600 with the BASIC programming cartridge which basically did nothing much. My parents had a TRS-80 Model III with cassette and 16K memory. I think they paid like $1,000 new for it. I had at one time several Tandy Color Computers: Two 3's and a 2b. I also had a Timex Sinclair 1000 with cassette interface and a TRS-80 PC-4 Pocket computer, as well as a Tandy 1100FD laptop (no hard drive even!) and a Tandy 1200HD (10Mb RFM Hard drive which crashed track 0 (parking track) when I accidentally dropped it at Radio Shack when bringing it in for a friend to find out why the Trident 256 color card wasn't working in it (I had to order a BIOS/DOS upgrade then it worked). At one time, I had actually 7 computers! Now I only have the one and it's my "everything" machine - SO much more powerful than any of them put together.

Amazing how technology has progressed since Knight Rider was aired.

Oh and did we get off topic here? Sorry.