WALL*E:
An interaction analysis between man and his environments
There are many reasons to why man needs artificial intelligence. In this particular movie called WALLE, there happens to be concrete evidence to substantiate the need and claim for artificial intelligent interaction. Man and his artificial intelligent interaction are keys for human life. Man needs machines in order to survive, thrive and enjoy life. Two immediate interactions that are between man and machine are as follows.
The number one interaction in this movie is, man's home. Man's home is the spaceship, the Axiom. Without the spaceship, man would cease to exist. This spaceship in fact seems to represent their artificial earth, their very own world, a home away from home that becomes them. This spaceship represents the mother of interactions. For example, this spaceship life support and artificial earth has oxygen, gravity, sunlight, perfect temperatures, vegetation and so on and so forth. The spaceship totally causes utter dependence. It is and has been capable of sustaining life for over seven hundred years. All other interactions follow suit.
The second major interaction between man and A.I. would be the robots. These personal cold steel beings with no heart and soul cause a severe dependence on the human race. Man does nothing on his own. Man sleeps on a robotic bed that conforms to his personal sleeping comforts. Man never has to leave the ease of his bed / chair to get a haircut, facial shave, play golf, watch TV and brush his teeth. Man just sits back and takes it easy allowing the gentle touch of cold robotic love to alleviate his cares.
Here is some insight into why the humans had to board the Axiom, and why they left earth.
WALLE, short for Waste-Allocation-Load-Lifter-Earth Class, is a specialized robot created and designed to clean up the Earth. Man in all his depravity have polluted the earth beyond human livable means causing man to build a spaceship called the Axiom, that would eventually accommodate the remaining human survivors from earth sending them into outer space away from the uninhabited earth. This later becomes the fall and our inevitable demise in our human independence and existence from social interaction with each other. Due to human carelessness and non-preventative measures, earth as we knew it ceased to exist and live.
Earth, which has been abandoned now for approximately seven hundred years, is destined to be discovered through vegetation investigation. If vegetation were discovered, then active measures would be taken in order to revitalize, restore and replenish the Earth. EVE PRO, also short for, Extraterrestrial Vegetation Evaluator is sent to earth from the Axiom ship in search of plant life. While on this journey in search of plant life, Eve remarkably discovers Walle. Interestingly enough, these two robots seem to fall in love with one another and eventually bring life back to the Captain in the form of a plant.
Sickly enough these robots, Walle and Eve seem to take on a completely new persona. They are almost Adam and Eve like representations and show characteristics of human behavior. On the other hand, throughout this movie the humans begin to take on the computer like cold characteristics of lifeless metal and seem to be puppets to the A.I. The humans in this story seem to interact, rather, depend and fully rely on their computers for everything. Their interaction with these daily computers becomes their very way of life. For example, the computerized seats that they sit on daily are not only their beds, their platforms, and their toilet, but also their way of entertainment and communication to each other. The humans can almost be classified by their computerized chair. Machines and programmed robots trim the human's nose hairs while yet at the same time wiping their rear.
I say, "These humans do not have interaction, just computer satisfaction."
The human's have lost sight and vision of why they were created. They lost their sense of self. If they would only lean on God as they do their artificial intelligence.
These humans will never be independent of their surrounding interactions with artificial intelligence. Even though at the end of the movie they go back to earth, they never abandon their ship and robots. Man does need machines in order to live out his daily life. He needs his spaceship and he needs his personal robots.
Works Cited
WALLE. Dir. Andrew Stanton. 2008. DVD. Disney. Pixar.