Machines or Beings?
I checked this out from a library last year. I wanted to watch it again because it explores issues of artificial intelligence and machine sentience. The story centers around human looking robots with intelligence and humanity's relationship to such 'beings'.
The series explores the different attitudes of several people and groups related to the human looking robots. The apparently more advanced sentient robots also have developed their own individual attitudes about the humans they are obligated to 'serve'.
It explores the, soon to be, approaching issues of whether the 'humanoids' are more than machines, and actual beings worthy of rights and protections in society. It also explores the humans who would rather keep such 'machines' out of their society because they consider them to be an imitation of humanity and this is not something they are willing to accept.
The issues in the series are explored in the context of multiple storylines of varying level of emotional involvement between and about the 'machines' or 'beings'. Almost every aspect of relationships are looked at in a very realistic and engaging way. At the end, its almost difficult to know where you would stand on the issue of their sentience and where you stand on accepting a machine as a being worthy of rights and respect.
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