Eleven years after it was released, everyone is talking about «Her» again – the movie in which a lonely writer falls in love with Scarlett Johansson an artificial intelligence. This hourlong conversation explores what the movie got right and what it missed, and more importantly, how it can be used as a prism to understand our relation to artificial intelligence today.

From Weekly Filet #491, in May 2024.

Why “Her” Reveals How We Really Feel About AI

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