{"id":219042,"date":"2026-05-23T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/ai-artificial-intelligence-review-part-11-along-came-the-glitter-bots\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T06:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T10:10:10","slug":"ai-artificial-intelligence-review-part-11-along-came-the-glitter-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/23\/ai-artificial-intelligence-review-part-11-along-came-the-glitter-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 11: Along Came the Glitter Bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mindmatters.ai\/2026\/05\/ai-artificial-intelligence-review-part-11-along-came-the-glitter-bots\/\">AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 11: Along Came the Glitter Bots<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mindmatters.ai\/2026\/05\/ai-artificial-intelligence-review-part-11-along-came-the-glitter-bots\/\">https:\/\/mindmatters.ai\/2026\/05\/ai-artificial-intelligence-review-part-11-along-came-the-glitter-bots\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-23 06:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"mindmatters.ai\">mindmatters.ai<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>David&#8217;s Forgotten State:<\/strong> David, a highly advanced robot, is found trapped and forgotten under a Ferris wheel for 2,000 years, praying to a blue fairy statue that the filmmakers suggest symbolizes God.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Alien-like Robots:<\/strong> After David&#8217;s long slumber, he is discovered by beings referred to as Glitter Bots, which the writer believes appear and behave like aliens, challenging their presumed robot nature dictated by Kubrick&#8217;s original vision.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Thematic Ambiguities:<\/strong> The scenario raises questions about the meaning of &#8220;real,&#8221; suggesting either technological or extraterrestrial beings can replace the need for a divine entity in humanity\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Deception and Betrayal:<\/strong> The Glitter Bots deceive David into thinking they can bring back his mother with a ruse, while also subtly reinforcing the allegory that human-like robots can act as divine beings in a technologically advanced reality.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Creepy Humanization:<\/strong> The movie&#8217;s portrayal of David\u2019s interactions with his mother after her return is heavily criticized for appearing unsettling and demonstrating that obsession is not equated with love.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Disillusionment and Conclusion:<\/strong> The movie ends on a cynical note, with David seemingly indifferent to his mother&#8217;s death, and the overall feel that the film is pretentious, containing incongruent ideas and manipulative narrative attempts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Preface to Counterarguments:<\/strong> The review signals intent to challenge the film&#8217;s central thesis in a future analysis, suggesting inherent contradictions in the movie\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI: Artificial Intelligence Review Part 11: Along Came the Glitter Bots https:\/\/mindmatters.ai\/2026\/05\/ai-artificial-intelligence-review-part-11-along-came-the-glitter-bots\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-23&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mindmatters.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/frozen-creek-7-stockpack-adobe-stock-247431199-stockpack-adobestock-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-219042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219044,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219042\/revisions\/219044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}