Plug & Pray

Plug & Pray - From computers and other people is a documentary by Jens Schanze about the possibilities and consequences of computer technology and artificial intelligence. The title (literally as " plug and pray ") is a widespread corruption introduced by Microsoft for the hot swapping of devices called " Plug and Play".

Action

The film deals with a dream of mankind: the design of intelligent machines. Leading scientists in the United States, Japan, Italy and Germany provide insight into their projects, their motivation and their visions of the future. Perform which tasks are to take computer-controlled machines and robots in the future in the daily lives of people. One of the pioneers of computer development, born in 1923 in Berlin, former MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum, increases the formulated in the film visions of the future of his colleagues from a humanistic point of view position.

Background

The film was produced in cooperation with the Bavarian Radio in the years 2006 to 2009. Was funded the production of the German Federal Film Fund, the Film Foundation North Rhine -Westphalia, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and the FilmFernsehFonds Bavaria. Filming with Joseph Weizenbaum were performed until shortly before his death in March 2008.

Since January 2010, the film was shown at 30 international film festivals, such as in the competition program of the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels ( FIPA ) 2010 in Biarritz in the category Creative Documentaries, the International Film Festival 2010 and at the Festival du Cinema Visions du Reel in Nyon.

The German theatrical release was on 11 November 2010 via color filmverleih in sales of 24 Pictures Film Agency.

Inventions: Stations of the film

  • ELIZA
  • Kurzweil Reading Machine
  • Kurzweil K250 synthesizer
  • Geminoid
  • Robovie
  • ICUB
  • Nanobot
  • ELROB

Reception

" A great view of the promises, the problems and the ethical aspects of robotics. A wonderful conversation piece and a refreshingly open and unbiased observation of scientists who debate and do their work. "

" About this cultural studies reading addition, leaving Plug & Pray ' but a fairly conventional documentation that does not develop any independent theses. The material shown is indeed extensive, an escalation of the Kurzweil / Weizenbaum dialectic addition is this pluralism but rather in the way. "

" The number of science fiction films, in which the existence or the artificial creation of human-like creatures, intelligent machines or even a people is identified, has assumed enormous proportions. What has brought us director and Grimme prize winner Jens Schanze with its documentation, Plug & Pray ' in theaters, but is closer than any fictional examination of the subject and is, surprisingly, more critical than it ever was Hollywood or could be. "

Awards

In February 2010, the film was awarded the title of most valuable and the award documentary of the month of Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden.

At the International Science Film Festival in Paris, the film with the Grand Prix of the Jury Award for Best Film. In Athens, he received the International Science Film Festival to Science Communication Award for best communicate scientific issues to a broad audience. In the Spanish La Coruña Plug & Pray was awarded at the Mostra de Ciencia e Cinema of the international jury for best film. At the ceremony of the Bavarian Film Prize 2010 Jens Schanze received for Plug & Pray the award in the documentary category. In Olomouc (Czech Republic), the film the Best World Science Documentary Film Award went.

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