Summary Andrew, a housekeeping robot is introduced into Richard Martin family in the year of 2005. Andrew accidentally breaks Amanda favourite figurine, but he makes out a wooden replacement for Amanda. Andrew's work piece surprises Richard. Richard realize Andrew has creativity and encourage him to learn more and think more. Andrew starts to observe human action. Years later, Andrew is brought to his manufacturer for repair. Andrew requests to have facial expression. Andrew able to make decision and eventually asks for freedom. Andrew begins to look out for robots that are similar like him. At the end of journey, Andrew meets Rupert Burns, a robot designer who provides Andrew a human look. The death of Amanda …show more content…
Does robot deserve the same right as human? In this movie, Andrew is a housekeeping machine in Martin family, however, he unable to gain respect from Amanda's child for what he did for the family. Society treats Andrew as a machine, an electric appliance even though Andrew able to think and act just like a normal human being. The reason why is because human creates robot, they want robot to follow all their commands and should not have personal thinking. So, when Andrew acquired personhood, human starts to afraid robot becomes uncontrollable. World Congress refused to recognize Andrew as human because he is immortal. Society fear that one day robots will overpower them and takes the rule of the world. This movie gives good ending for Andrew, however, in real life, it is impossible for robots who attain personhood to be recognize as …show more content…
Creativity enable it to produce something new instead from what is programmed. For example, Andrew craved a wooden figurine without copying from book. This shown that Andrew is different from normal robots. Moreover, 'person' need to have empathy. Empathy enable it to understand another people's feeling. For instance, Andrew able to feel sadness and love. Robots could attain the status of personhood. What it takes is a lot of time. For example, Andrew gained knowledge after years of reading and learning. From that, he able to starts thinking on his own and make decision. When time passed, Andrew experienced people’s aging and dying, he soon realized that things will always change. From that, he started to cherish people around him, like Portia. He learnt to follow his heart and eventually attain his own personhood. Society would be unable to accept immortal human being. The first and yet the major reason is because society afraid immortal human beings will overpower them. Immortal human being has endless time compare to normal human being, who usually live up to 60-80 years. Immortality will also cause jealousy of those normal. Therefore, society refuses to accept immortal human being just like how in the movie, World Congress initially denied Andrew's petition to be recognized as human due to his
He then continues to say, “Do you want to miss a match? Blow your ride?” The pressure that his dad puts on him to be rebellious like him made Andrew get into detention in the first place simply because he got caught. Andrew describes that he “taped Larry Lester’s buns together”, he then goes on to say “that the bizarre thing is that I did it for my old man.” This further proves that Andrew’s dad has influenced the way he has behaved, and his parent-adolescent conflict worsens as his push for freedom establishes a harsher, goal-seeking father. Instead of becoming close in a new, harmonious way, it appears Andrew and his father will eventually distance themselves from one another. He wonders if he will end up like his parents or not: “Oh God, are we gonna be like our
Andrew (Emilio Estevez) is a Varsity letterman in wrestling. He's spent most of his youth trying to measure up to his father's machismo image of him. This entails winning in athletic competition and preying upon weaker peers. He and Bender clash.
Amanda a loving and caring mother devoted her life for her childern .she is abondaned by her husband,the only one she loved deeply.She struggles to secure her children`s lives and when she is overwhelmed by despair she resorts to her memories.
A major falling point of robots and machines when placed in a human’s position is that robots cannot improvise. Robots can only do what they are programmed to do. if Damasio is right, emotions are ‘improvised’ by the human brain even before someone is conscious of what they are feeling. Therefore it is even harder to make machines feel true emotions. An example of this exists in Ray Bradbury’s short story “August 2026.” A completely automated house survives after nuclear warfare has devastated the Earth. Cheerful voices go on announcing schedules and birth dates, the stove prepares steaming hot food right on time, and robotic mice keep the house spotless and free of dust- in eerie contrast to the barren and destroyed city surrounding it. The house lets nothing in, closing its shutters even to birds, but lets in a sick and famished stray dog, which limps into the house and dies. The robotic mice think nothing of the dead dog but a mess that needed cleaning up: “Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical wind. Two-fifteen. The dog was gone. In the cellar, the incinerator glowed suddenly and a whirl of sparks leaped up the chimney.” The house, seeming so cheerful, caring for its attendants, has no compassion or reverence for the dog. The mice were programmed to clean up messes, and nothing beyond. This is why in science
Amanda was a woman who lives in a world of fantasy and reality. In the past memory and the future of the fantasy made Amanda very strong, but in the face of reality she was fragile. Just like Tom used to explain “I give you truth in the
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...he does not think for himself, but instead gives the responsibility to others. As a result, Ellison reveals that the protagonist is a robot in white society and invisible in the black community.
Asimov’s robots can be described as clumsy, hard-working, cost-efficient, soulless, strong, fast, obedient, human-made, a cleaner better breed, more human than man.
...y that was created by the side of himself he truly malices, Andrew Laeddis. Teddy uses Andrew to symbolize the side of himself that he can not stand and has a deep hatred for. The culpability that Andrew experiences was too much to bear on his own. Thus, he created Teddy Daniels, a heroic United States Marshal, held on Shutter Island against his own will. When in reality, Andrew Laeddis is an insane patient who lived in a hallucination to cope with his sins. Teddy is a dynamic character because he changed from not knowing who he is, to understanding who he truly is. Andrew lies about recognizing who he is in order to receive a lobotomy so he can forget all his pain forever. In conclusion, Teddy Daniels/Andrew Laeddis faces many conflicts throughout the story that make him become a dynamic character. After all, is it better to live as a monster or die as a good man?
“Man is a robot with defects,” (Emile Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born). Humans' are not perfect, but we seem to strive for perfection, so who is to say that in the future robots will not out number the human race on Earth? In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the character Data is very much a robot and not human, being composed of inorganic materials but designed with a human appearance (an android), but does that make it just a robot? In the show it is proposed that for one to be a sentient being and a person they must possess three qualities, intelligence, self-awareness, and consciousness. In accordance to these three conditions it is obvious that the character Data is in fact a sentient being with the qualities of being a person.
It is fascinating that non-living things can think reason, plan, solve problems, and perceive, just like humans can. Robots and systems became sentient beings that were self-aware, going against their defining trait (that robots and machines lack emotion).
Amanda loves her children and tries her best to make sure they do not follow her path to downfall. Unfortunately, while she is trying to push her children toward her ideals of success, she is also pushing them away. Amanda Wingfield is a kind woman stuck in the wrong place and time; she is trying to make her children’s life perfect while attempting to get a re-do on her love life with Laura and forcing Tom to fill the role that her husband abandoned. Amanda Wingfield was never meant to be in the situation that she finds herself in.
I don’t think there is any reason for these robots to have every ability that a human does. There is no way they are going to have the intelligence a human does. Artificial Intelligence is just going to bring more harm into our communities. We can’t trust the robots doing the “everyday” human activities, they are going to lead to unemployment, and will lead to laziness causing more obesity.
The future is near. In the movie, The Bicentennial Man, the Martin family purchases a robot who can help them with basic household chores. Overtime, their robot Andrew obtains the ability of expressing emotions and generating thoughts. Although Andrew is a programmed robot, he is a person because he exceeds the capability to possess all of the human characteristics.
... major hurdles in the field right now, but when they are jumped over, the sky is the limit. Robots are starting to emulate humankind the best that they can, and soon, they will be like humans, with the ability to think, and the ability to decide. That world will come soon, but now, we can only wait and try our best.