{"id":242746,"date":"2026-07-13T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/ai-artificial-intelligence-at-25-revisiting-steven-spielbergs-masterpiece\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:05:12","slug":"ai-artificial-intelligence-at-25-revisiting-steven-spielbergs-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/ai-artificial-intelligence-at-25-revisiting-steven-spielbergs-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"AI: Artificial Intelligence at 25: Revisiting Steven Spielberg&#8217;s Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thatshelf.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence-at-25-revisiting-steven-spielbergs-masterpiece\/\">AI: Artificial Intelligence at 25: Revisiting Steven Spielberg&#8217;s Masterpiece<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thatshelf.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence-at-25-revisiting-steven-spielbergs-masterpiece\/\">https:\/\/thatshelf.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence-at-25-revisiting-steven-spielbergs-masterpiece\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-13 09:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thatshelf.com\">thatshelf.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The author recounts sneaking into a screening of Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cAI: Artificial Intelligence\u201d at a young age despite parental disapproval, and describes the disturbing Flesh Fair scene.<\/li>\n<li>The story follows David, a \u201cmecha\u201d created to serve humanity under extreme population controls, longing for human affection and finding hope in a couple, only to have that hope shattered when the couple&#8217;s biological son returns home.<\/li>\n<li>Spielberg merged his directing style with ideas he imagined Stanley Kubrick would have employed in \u201cA.I.,\u201d resulting in a blend of hopeful wonder and brutal despair in the story\u2019s portrayal of mechas.<\/li>\n<li>Osment\u2019s portrayal of David as a relatable yet unsettling character is central to the film&#8217;s emotional impact.<\/li>\n<li>After millennia, David is found and believed to hold the key to understanding life, but his ultimate desire remains unchanged: to reunite with Monica, reflecting mankind&#8217;s own uncertainties about life\u2019s meaning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI: Artificial Intelligence at 25: Revisiting Steven Spielberg&#8217;s Masterpiece https:\/\/thatshelf.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence-at-25-revisiting-steven-spielbergs-masterpiece\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-13 09:07:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thatshelf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/artificial-intelligence-turns-25-steven-spielberg-stanley-kubrick.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-242746","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\/242746"}],"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=242746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242748,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242746\/revisions\/242748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}