Artifice Girl- What is real?

The Artiface Girl

Written and Directed by Franklin Ritch

Running Time: 1hr 33 min.  (USA) Sci-Fi

Starring: Tatum Matthews, Lance Henriksen, Sinda Nichols and Franklin Ritch

This film is a peak into the near future of Artificial Intelligence and very relevant to where the world is now and deciding what choices to make for the future.

The film was shot in Jacksonville, Florida.  It seems to be a low budget film only based on the fact that there were only 3 dimly lit sets used as locations.  The first location was a small interrogation room and then another small office.  Finally in a home.

The script is expertly crafted with questions asked throughout the film on what is real and what choices have been made.  It depicts an AI character of a 9 year old girl that is used to try and capture child predators and build human capabilities to obtain the objective of keeping children safe.  Why was this specific girl AI created and when it can interact with super human intelligence when does it become real and not just an image?

The acting was very intelligent and nuanced with Tatum Matthews playing the AI and Franklin Ritch the creator and then years later played by veteran actor Lance Henriksen.

This is the kind of film you take with you long after you finish watching the movie because you see reflections of it in real life and it makes you ask yourself questions of what do you want the future to look and act like.  How far is too far?  

When we design machines to do everything humans do then what do the humans do then?

It's a very smart film that I highly recommend seeing.   

I was told about it by the Executive Producer who is also a programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival so he has seen a whole lot of films over the years.  

It's a subject that I have been learning about recently with my day job and the changes as technology takes on repetitive and complex tasks and in my personal life as things like Chat GPT are starting to dominate the landscape.  Will we lose all originality because it will just become computers learning from programs and scouring what's already on the internet.  Will it be used to help humanity or taken over by nefarious people for their own greed and evil deeds.

This is our future.  You better keep up or get passed by if you aren't on board.