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You haven't put nearly enough thought into this as you're suggesting.
For one you find it hard to believe a nerd would fall for an intelligent robot that looks like Alicia Vikander. Its 2018, we have men forming relationships with inanimate sex dolls, and you find this hard to believe. You're denying reality. Men would be lining up around the corner for a robot girlfriend if such a thing existed.
Secondly no, its not worth mentioning that we used to call autopilot AI because that is not what the film is referring to as AI. AI in the film is human level intelligence. I mean that's the whole point of the movie.
Are you really qualified to call human level intelligence "insanely improbable"? People much smarter than you or I have been discussing it for decades.
I'm not suggesting, I'm stating as fact that I have. Don't assume because you reached different conclusions, I am somehow lesser.
My problem with Caleb falling for the machine on a physical level is that she's metal draped in silk. And this isn't really a huge problem for me, it's just something I pointed out. Guys complain when breast implants look fake, this is a thousand times worse than that.
Of course it's worth mentioning about autopilot being considered AI at one point. The definition is fluid. One thing it has never been is "human level", that isn't a thing. Pass for human is a thing, human level is not. Why did the robots object to being mistreated? What made Ava hunger for freedom? They're toasters.
It's one thing to create an intelligence that can perceive and interact with us. It's another to create one that has an innate sense of self-preservation, survival, or any independent desires at all. That's not artificial intelligence, it consciousness, and as I said previously, barring emergence (look it up), it's something that always bothers me in science fiction stories about AI.