Film: AfrAId Cast: John Cho, Katherine Waterston, Keith Carradine, Isaac Bae, Wyatt Lindner, Lukita Maxwell, Ashley Romans, Benet Curran, Havana Rose Liu Director: Chris Weitz Rating: 2/5 Runtime: 104 min ADVERTISEMENT A topical if not gritty, imaginative or thrilling film about AI entrapment, this Chris Weitz directorial fails to make the effort count as a warning for those who become dependent on AI for their everything. There’s no doubting the fact that we are living in the age of Artificial Intelligence and that more and more day-to-day routine applications are now being run through AI. Siri and Alexa are soon becoming obsolete in the age of ChatGPT and its ilk.
Chris Weitz’s film tries hard to imagine the perils of being a supplicant to AI but while the warning is no doubt appreciable, there’s nothing in this picture to give you insight beyond what you already know. The set-up is reasonably good with the opening sequence sounding alarm bells right from the word go. Curtis (John Cho) a high-level marketing executive who is trying to book an account for AIA, a new artificial intelligence assistant, is hesitant to do a trial of it in his home and his wife Meredith (Katherine Waterston ) is even more reluctant - what with three easily influenced kids - teen daughter Iris (Lukita Maxwell), middle son Preston (Wyatt Lindner) and the youngest Cal (Isaac Bae)rounding up their adorable loving family.
But needs must, as they say, Curtis’ Boss(Keith Carradine) insists and C.
