Some people love Artificial Intelligence and some are terrified of it. These movies use sentient AIs to tell great, timeless stories.

Robots are a common factor in many sci-fi movies, as they’ve always seemed like something a futuristic society would have. Of course, as society progresses, there are some real-life robots now, maybe even within your own home.

While we may have numerous examples of artificial intelligence nowadays, one thing we still haven’t discovered is making these robots actually sentient, something we still only see in fiction.

So, in that spirit, we present Best Artificial Intelligence Movies To Watch.

The Machine

This Welsh-backed sci-fi thriller, probably made for less than Captain America’s coffee budget, is madly uneven. On the one hand, Caradog James’s script packs in more ideas per square inch than every schlocky sci-fi film by Paul WS Anderson (Resident Evil) put together.

On the other hand, the last act is as predictable as rain in Snowdonia. Still, the good bits mostly outweigh the bad. Toby Stephens stars as a Frankenstein-like neuroscientist employed by the MoD to rebuild damaged soldiers to fight in an ongoing cold war against the Chinese.

When his associate (Caity Lotz) is murdered, he builds a cyborg in her image, the machine of the title, who nevertheless has a moral GPS calibrated to a much finer degree than the humans around her.

James overflogs the what-is-the-nature-of-being-dead horse, but directs with brio. Meanwhile, Lotz, with her child-like fragility and snappy kickboxing moves, is eminently watchable.

The Machine proves an audacious debut for writer-director Caradog James and a solid entry in modern British sci-fi, with thematic heft to match its genre thrills.

Star Wars

When you think of sci-fi, Star Wars may be one of the first titles that come to mind. As one of the largest movie franchises of the 21st century, Star Wars pioneered the long line of epic space adventures that directors are trying to replicate to this day.

With meticulous world-building and complex characters, Star Wars definitely takes you out of this world with their storytelling.

The first Star Wars movie (Episode IV) premiered on May 25, 1977. As of 2020, a total of 9 Star Wars movies have been released.

In the Star Wars universe, C-3PO is a cyborg built by Anakin Skywalker to assist others in translating etiquette and customs procedures. This cyborg also knows over 6 million forms of communication, which makes it a handy companion during space travel among different species.

While C-3PO has been criticized for his oblivious nature in the Star Wars films, this character served a vital role in the original trilogy. Apart from the original films, C-3PO also appears in many of the television series, comic books, and video games.

Ex Machina

“Ex Machina,” the directorial debut by novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland (“28 Days Later,” “Sunshine”), is a rare and welcome exception to that norm.

It starts out as an ominous thriller about a young programmer (Domhnall Gleeson) orbiting a charismatic Dr. Frankenstein-type (Oscar Isaac) and slowly learning that the scientist’s zeal to create artificial intelligence has a troubling, even sickening personal agenda.

With the debate over artificial intelligence and whether the technology will ever become fully conscious as the starting point, Ex Machina follows a young coder as he gets to spend a week at his reclusive boss’s remote mansion, testing his latest creation.

Her

Artificially intelligent operating systems or virtual assistants such as Siri, Alexa, and Bixby can make our lives easier and more organized, but what if the technology became so sophisticated that you could even fall in love with it? That’s the premise of Her, where a lonely man falls in love with an incredibly sophisticated AI system called Samantha.

Her is an interesting AI movie because it revolves around technology already in use; it just happens to be an advanced model. Her also touches upon how people are increasingly relying on AI.

Visionary and traditional, wispy and soulful, tender and cool, Spike Jonze‘s Her ponders the nature of love in the encroaching virtual world and dares to ask the question of what might be preferable, a romantic relationship with a human being or an electronic one that can be designed to provide more intimacy and satisfaction than real people can reliably manage.

Taking place tomorrow or perhaps the day after that, this is a probing, inquisitive work of a very high order, although it goes a bit slack in the final third and concludes rather conventionally compared to much that has come before.

A film that stands apart from anything else on the horizon in many ways, it will generate an ardent following, which, Warner Bros. can only hope, will be vocal and excitable enough to make this a must-see for anyone who pretends to be interested in something different.

As it will for two hours, the camera stays very close to this well-mannered, proper fellow, who goes home to his upper-floor apartment to play a life-sized 3D video game featuring a foul-mouthed cartoon character who insults him — a poor substitute for his wife (Rooney Mara), who’s divorcing him.

Quick and funny anonymous phone sex follows, but Theodore then explores a new electronic offering, an operating system (OS1) that absorbs information and adapts so fast that the resulting conversation matches anything real life can offer. Or — and this is the part that’s both seductive and unnerving — it might be even better.

I, Robot

I, Robot is a 2004 American science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. The screenplay by Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman is from a screen story by Vintar, based on his original screenplay Hardwired, and named after Isaac Asimov’s 1950 short-story collection.

The film stars Will Smith in the main role, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, and Alan Tudyk. In 2035, highly intelligent robots fill public service positions throughout the dystopian world, operating under three rules to keep humans safe.

Detective Del Spooner (Smith) investigates the alleged suicide of U.S. Robotics founder Alfred Lanning (Cromwell) and believes that a human-like robot called Sonny (Tudyk) murdered him.

VIKI (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence) is a supercomputer turned evil that uses data collected from around the world and its computational powers control robots all over the world.

In this world, robots are everywhere, and they are given laws embedded into their system that ensure the safety of society.

But with VIKI, those laws no longer hold the robots back, and it’s up to a technophobic cop and a good robot to stop VIKI from ending the world.

This film brings about the harrowing possibility of AI taking over the world and how even laws set in place to control them can backfire.

I hope that through these amazing sci-fi films, you are able to be fully engrossed in a world where AI becomes a friend, a lover, a killer, a soldier, a slave, and discover the power of mathematics and algorithms and their ability to achieve amazing things like stopping a war and winning big in a casino.

Artificial Intelligence is truly the greatest invention of humanity. As seen in the movies, AI will either be the death of us or an augmentation of our human cognitive and physical abilities, allowing us to do incredible things.