192. STAR TREK 12: A FULLY FUNCTIONING ROBOT

About this episode

The episode discusses the significance of the robot DATA from Star Trek amidst a history of movie robots.

Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Today, we look at one of the most significant robots in Star Trek, DATA. WARNING! The S**t-bomb is said but nothing more.   TikTok: @FiftyYOSR Insta: @FiftyYOSR NOTES THE ROBOT HALL OF FAME https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/feature-articles/best-and-brightest-robot-hall-fame   TOP MOUSTACHED VILLIANS https://geekireland.com/the-7-most-iconic-villains-with-memorable-moustaches/   ORIGIN OF MOUSTACHE TWIRLING VILLAIN https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/609/origin-of-the-mustache-twirling-villain   ADAM LINK https://strangewesterngalaxy.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/eando-binder-adam-link-robot/   FIRST PERSON KILLED BY A ROBOT https://www.iflscience.com/the-first-person-ever-killed-by-a-robot-died-45-years-ago-75908   HOW CLOSE TO AI IS DATA https://medium.com/@hastur/from-chatgpt-to-commander-data-how-close-is-ai-to-star-treks-android-d2bcbef44fe2 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Matt Brown

Topics covered

• robots
• Star Trek
• AI
• film history
• science fiction

Keywords

• Star Trek
• DATA
• robots
• science fiction
• AI
• film history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: TikTok, Insta, Robot Hall of Fame, Geek Ireland, Stack Exchange, IFLScience, Medium

Books & works: STAR TREK, DATA, Metropolis, Star Wars

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