Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I was 21 when I first watched Spike Jonze's 2013 sci-fi romance Her in theaters in New York City--a then–fresh college graduate teeming with the potent and deluded optimism that came with being a very broke and online millennial hoping to change the world. Her sparked some of my first reflections about whether tech innovation is inherently good or bad for society, and helped validate my early moral quandaries and panic at the time. I was graduating at the first turn of a recovering recession (mainly due to big tech investments in digital and social media) and securing my first full-time role as an online reporter. Though I was eager and rosy, a quiet, worried voice also began growing inside of me. Me, my job, my realities, were entirely dependent on tech--mainly Facebook content dissemination and programmatic turnkey digital ads--and I was not sure these huge tech investments by our broligarchical founding fathers would lead us anywhere good.

For decades, pop culture has promised us a future where artificial intelligence (AI) is evolved enough to form relationships with humans. But in every take, that future predicted by authors, film directors and actors has missed the mark. Pop culture's first AI-human relationship was the brainchild of Mary Shelley, who created Frankenstein in 1818. In doing so, she set readers dreaming of a day in which robots imbued with empathy could meet humans' desire for real connection. Today, thanks to incredible innovations in the realm of artificial intelligence, that day has come.

As the technology behind artificial intelligence continues to develop, people are becoming more and more interested in how AI will affect our daily lives. Will we be able to hold conversations with our technology in the near future? Will we have household robots that can keep our houses clean? Many movies have explored these possibilities, and this list of the top 10 movies showing artificial intelligence will help you envision what life may be like as the world continues to advance toward true AI. The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron, produced by Hemdale Film Corporation and distributed by Orion Pictures.

A lonely single man sits down at his computer and meets the love of his life. It seems like a plausible scenario that could occur today. There's just one catch: the love of his life isn't a profile photo of a human on a dating website -- it's an artificially intelligent operating system that adopts a female-sounding voice and goes by the name "Samantha." Released in 2013, the sci-fi drama Her was ahead of its time in anticipating the lightning-fast advances in AI that are now starting to shape our everyday lives. But was its depiction of artificial intelligence scientifically accurate?

Joaquin Phoenix plays Theodore Twombly, a professional letter writer going through a divorce. To help himself cope, Theodore picks up a new operating system with advanced A.I. features. He selects a female voice for the OS, naming the device Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), but it proves to have smart capabilities of its own. Theodore spends a lot of time talking with Samantha, eventually falling in love. The film traces their budding relationship and confronts the notion of sentience and A.I.

Chinese tech company Huawei wants to change the way people talk to their artificially intelligent voice assistants. The firm plans to make those conversations more emotionally interactive, according to senior executives. Voice-powered virtual assistants currently serve a functional role, by giving information -- "What's the weather like?" -- or completing small tasks like turning on a playlist. Huawei wants to take that a step further and create a voice companion to fulfill some of its users' emotional needs. "We want to provide emotional interactions," Felix Zhang, vice president of software engineering at Huawei's consumer business group, told CNBC at the company's annual global analyst summit in Shenzhen, China.

Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby have had quite a range of guests on This Morning -- but never before have they had a sex robot named Samantha on the sofa. The topic of sex robots is an interesting one. These questions are addressed by Samantha's owner Arran Lee Wright and his wife, who highlight that sex robots are not designed to replace human relationships but rather act as a supplement. So A to Samantha the sex robot for making us think about the potential of technology, even if some might find her a little creepy.

I recently watched a movie called'Her' starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson. Set in the future the beautiful, strange and emotional story of a letter writer, Theodore Twombly (Phoenix) who, after separating from his girlfriend, downloads an intelligent computer operating system (OS) personified through a female voice, 'Samantha' played by Johansson. Director Spike Jonze conceived the idea of the film after reading about Cleverbot, a web application that uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to have conversations with humans. Twombly had quite simply created his'perfect' woman. He had answered a few questions; What gender was he?