Which Movie About AI Is The Most Accurate?

Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up to the original Blade Runner takes place 30 years later, still set in L.A., and still concerns a plot about retiring the humanlike replicants who have gone rogue.

Man, you’d think they would have had that problem sorted out by then! While Villeneuve’s film gets all the feels and looks of the original film right, it falls into the same problems as its predecessor (although this time around our new Blade Runner, K, is actually aware that he’s a replicant, so that’s an improvement).

Why It’s Partially Accurate

Joi, the AI program who serves as K’s virtual girlfriend and mystery-solving partner, is much closer to reality than the notion of replicants. Joi is a program that uses a hologram projector installed into K’s ceiling to project itself into K’s living room and walk around like a real-life girlfriend.

When K comes home from work, Joi registers his mood through a series of casual questions and changes her outfit and hairstyle to try to determine what K is in the mood for that evening. She uses his cues to try and cater to whatever he needs. Her programming is to please him (which is connoted by her first appearance resembling a 1950s housewife).

We already have rudimentary examples of this today with AI programs like Alexa and Siri.