A lot of the power in Drew Hancock’s “Companion” is femme power, because Iris is a very smart bot. And her boyfriend is a very dumb patriarch.
Young people have led makeovers of the concept of love before. But relationships with AI chatbots leave out the compromises and effort of real relationships.
The AI-generated video showed Scarlett Johansson and other Jewish celebrities wearing a T-shirt giving Kanye West the middle finger.
Based on the Sigrid Nunez novel, The Friend follows Iris (Naomi Watts), a writer and teacher, who is grieving the loss of her friend and mentor Walter (Bill Murray) when she learns that he has left ...