Professor Allen Hobby

So the premises is that in the future, not too far in the future, AI has developed, as we're even seeing it develop now, and has gotten to the point where there are fully realized human-looking robots, mechas, that are walking around.

And they're kind of all being led, all the AI work is being done by a particular scientist named Professor Hobby.

Who was played by William Hurt, which again, another incredible performance in this movie.

And his work, as is demonstrated early in the film, is he's trying to find a way to bring sentience to these mechas in a way that hasn't before.

You're very

insulated.

Yes, it feels, and the opening sequence of Dr., what's his last name? Professor Hobby.

Professor Hobby.

And why it's good, because it doesn't have a colon in it.

I think that's time then I should remind yourselves and the listeners about the plot of AI no colon artificial intelligence come away oh human child to the waters and the wild with a fairy hand in hand for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand In the 22nd century, Professor Hobby at Cybertronics ponders building a robot who can love, a mecha.

After all, didn't God create Adam to love him? If a robot child can truly love a parent, can the parent truly love them back? David is created and then given to Monica and Henry, whose son Martin lies in suspended animation with a rare disease.

Monica cannot accept David.

David's questions lead them to the end of the world, Manhattan.

Gigolo Joe, aware of the destination and the human condition, Humans made AI too smart, too quick, and too many.

They escape Rouge City on an amphibicopter and find Professor Hobby in the flooded New York City Rockefeller Center.

David finds boxed copies of other Davids and female versions called Darlene as Professor Hobby fawns over David.