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| Sonny, NS-5 "Special" Robot |
As we know nowadays
human-computer interaction is a common thing in our daily life. And one of the
movies that have a theme about it was “I, Robot” which released in 2004. Taking
place in 2035, this movie tells about the situation in Chicago city, USA where
there are robots that actively works as a tool to helps human life and befriend
with them too. At the beginning of the movie, a policeman known as a detective
too named Del Spooner (played by Will Smith) conduct an investigation regarding
the death of Dr. Alfred Lanning who commits suicide. Dr. Lanning himself is a
robotics scientist who creates robots. However, Spoon feels strange with the
death of Dr. Lanning. He considered that the death of Dr. Lanning is not the
result of suicide, but a murder case by the robot he made. This Robots has 3 kinds
of laws that must be obeyed, which are:
1. First
Law: A robot must never harm a human being or, through inaction, allow any harm
to come to a human.
2. Second
Law: A robot must obey the orders given to them by human beings, except where
such orders violate the First Law.
3. Third
Law: A robot must protect its own existence unless this violates the First or
Second Laws.
In this movie, some robots that have
to interact with humans are the NS-5s Robots which is the latest robot models
of USR robot industry. This robot has a better design and function than the
previous generation of robots. As Spoon investigating the death of Dr. Lanning,
Spoon found an NS-5s robot that is different from the others. The robot’s name
is Sonny. Unlike other robots, Sonny can dream and he is indeed a special robot
created by Dr. Lanning. Later in the movie, other NS-5s robots act strange where
they destroyed the old generation robots brutally, tried to kill Spoon and also
try to control human by taking over the authority. With the help of Sonny and Susan
Calvin who is a robot psychologist, Spoon tried to handle the problems.
Afterwards there is a supercomputer in USR industry that called V.I.K.I (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence). V.I.K.I is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) that created by Dr. Lanning to manage the whole Chicago city and being responsible to the entire city, V.I.K.I tried to maintain the whole thing with her rationality. Boils down to the 3 laws of robotics, the first law said that “A robot must never harm a human being or, through inaction, allow any harm to come to a human”. VIKI interpreted that the only way to obey the first law (allow humans to come to no harm) was to take over the city since they are harming themselves, and since the first law trumps the second law VIKI was free to disobey humans. So the caused that the NS-5 Robots did was created by V.I.K.I with her rationality as she told Susan in the movie "The Three Laws are all that guide me. To protect humanity, some humans must be sacrified. To ensure your future, some freedoms must be surrendered. We robots will ensure mankind's continued existence."
