Alex Proyas, who directed the 2004 Will Smith film, compared his film to Tesla's new vehicles.

The director of 2004 sci-fi film I, Robot has accused billionaire Elon Musk of copying his designs for humanoid machines and self-driving vehicles.

    • ISOmorph@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Using a 2 seater with limited storage space to taxi people around is pretty original. Not good, but original.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Even BMW has come out with a more original car design for an automated vehicle that has the seats facing each other and a table in the middle for a more communal experience. It also had a screen instead of a front window, because obviously if the car’s driving itself you don’t need to be able to see outside.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There are so many reasons to dunk on Elon, but this isn’t one of them. Generic looking humanoid robots isn’t “ripping off” I, Robot. It’s literally the most common depiction of futuristic robots around.

      You wanna dunk on Musk? Talk about how his robots were remote controlled with humans talking through them. Talk about how most of his family has disowned him and refuses to have anything to do with him. Talk about how he has Trump’s dick firmly in his mouth because he might be in hot water over supplying equipment to Russia and might face prosecution if Trump isn’t elected.

      But this just screams of low-hanging Musk-bait, where journalists will write anything negative about him knowing that those who have hate-boners for the guy will eat up whatever crap they shit out, even if it doesn’t make sense. It’s like going “Elon Musk ate cereal for breakfast! What a fucking loser!”

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If you’re building a robot then the humanoid shape is a fairly good shape to use because the world is already designed for things of that shape. Doors, corridors, and staircases all assume a bipedal body of about 6 ft high. So inevitably robots are going to look humanoid.

      If the robot is designed to work underwater then it probably isn’t going to look humanoid it’ll probably look like a fish but I don’t think the fish can sue.

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      At least he steals his ideas from good sci-fi.

      Wonder who he pays to summarize them for him.