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The paper analyzes themes of love and artificial beings in artificial intelligence narratives, highlighting changes in perceptions of possible worlds.
Set in a rather remote future, Steven Spielberg’s film Artificial Intelligence (2001) tells the story of a childlike android named David programmed with the ability to love. Having as starting point a SF short story, namely Brian Aldiss’ Super-Toys Last All Summer Long (1969/2001a) and a novel for children, Carlo Collodi’s Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), Ian Watson, a British science-fiction writer, created a very interesting screen script. The movie marks the continuity of the specific need human beings have for stories as well as for love. It thus proves to be a combination between hard SF and fantasy. Our paper would mainly underline some changes in fiction about possible and impossible worlds throughout time with an accent on the balance between natural and artificial.
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