Top 20 Movies about Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

Here are some AI and Big Data movies you should watch at home during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Movies are more than just blockbusters hit with explosions and superpowers, it’s the main idea behind the movie that changes people and injects a notion in the viewer’s head. To illustrate, the movie Joker wasn’t a hero vs villain film, fighting with superpowers and wreaking havoc on New York City. 

It portrayed how there is a distinct chasm between the rich and the poor, the lucky and the unlucky, and how mental illness can distort a person’s morality and value system. 

So, movies are more than just an activity for enjoyment and amusement, it plays an imperative role in shaping our view on the world and communal consciousness. In short, movies educate people and spread ideas in ways a paperback book early does today.

Why movies?

One reason for the effectiveness of movies is also the stark difference between movies and books, which is visualization. A visual content displays content that quickly registers to our visual stimulus as compared to a book, which explains why people spend hours on YouTube instead of reading a book. Moreover, movies help generate concrete graphics that help people hold on to the idea for a longer time. Evidently, movies are the perfect medium to learn about an idea or to dive into a topic with your head first.

AI in Holywood

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science are popular terms in this era. And knowing what it is and its value in the coming years is more crucial than ever. Although Hollywood movies tend to exaggerate for dramatic effects, such as the Terminator movie, where killer robots from SKYNET turn sentient and start destroying humans, there is still some truth in these movies. There are experts in the field today who fear a super-intelligent AI who will outsmart us and eventually decide to wipe us off the face of the Earth. On the other side of the spectrum, AI is depicted as a miracle invention, the intelligent machine that can perform analytical tasks such as simulations and predictions much better than humans. In the movies, you see AI as a helper to humans, assisting us in all kinds of tasks, from being a sidekick on space adventures to a lover.

If you’re interested in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science, or you just have no idea what to do at home during this COVID-19 mayhem, check out the list of movies (in no particular order) below and watch them.

The list of movies

1. Blade Runner (1982)

2. Westworld (1973)

3. 2001: Space Odyssey

4. Moon (2009)

5. The Matrix (1999)

6. Star Wars (1977)

7. Star Trek: Generations (1994)

8. The Terminator (1984)

9. Robocop (1987)

10. Wall-E

11. Ex Machina

12. Chappie

13. iRobot

14. Interstellar

15. Her

16. Moneyball

17. Margin Call

18. Minority Report

19. The Imitation game

20. A Beautiful Mind

21. 21 (Twenty-One)

Source: TowardsDataScience