Everybody’s a bit of freaked out about AI proper now—the ramifications of unregulated tech bro begin up tradition smashing into industries throughout the board, from journalism, to science, to leisure, being turned the other way up by the recent new pattern. However collectively, Jennifer Lopez and Netflix boldly ask in Atlas the primordial query: what if studying to like AI acquired us a Titanfall film with the names filed off?
This morning Netflix dropped a extra in depth take a look at the frankly absurd mixture of phrases that’s “the Jennifer Lopez mecha film, Atlas.” Whereas the primary trailer performed up Lopez’s character, the titular Atlas—to not be confused with the lately revived Boston Dynamics robotic of the identical identify—and her abject horror at being plummeted onto an alien world through big robotic cockpits, the second lifts a couple of extra layers across the movie… which makes it really feel much less like a narrative a few first time mecha pilot, and extra about how Jennifer Lopez ought to understand the idea of Not All Synthetic Intelligences.
This look introduces us to Simu Liu’s baddy, an AI robotic named Harlan designed to assist humanity however (shock, horror) turned in opposition to his natural masters. Now deeply distrustful of any synthetic intelligence after her hunt for Harlan, Atlas finds herself compelled to make compromises when she is compelled to get into an enormous mech go well with on a mission gone flawed—working with its onboard intelligence, Smith, to study the methods of beating the crap out of individuals with an enormous robotic.
As enjoyable as it’s to see Jennifer Lopez on the heart of a film that feels very impressed by the likes of Respawn’s beloved shooter sequence Titanfall in its mech design, the entire “you’ve simply gotta study to like your Siri-adjacent robotic pal!” buddy cop vibe undoubtedly feels a bit of weirdly timed as we’re on the crest of a common air of skepticism about the usage of rudimentary picture mills and LLMs in artistic fields. However hey, possibly Jennifer Lopez’s big robotic will punch issues adequate this Memorial Day for us to place these considerations apart for a pair hours.
Atlas begins streaming on Netflix Could 24.
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