Introduction
In the near future, 10 percent of the population will consist of Humanoids—machines with advanced functions and artificial intelligence resembling human personalities, easily recognized by their sideways pupils. These specialized patients likewise require a special doctor. By day, Dr. Hikaru Sudou runs a medical clinic for Humanoids; by night, under the moniker of Moggadeet, he performs illegal procedures and gathers information about his lost mother.
Hikaru encounters patients with varying problems unique to this society: a Humanoid struggling with the question of whether she and the source of her backup data are the same person, a teenage Humanoid who cannot improve athletically, and even a robot teddy bear with memories of multiple owners. As the world's technology constantly evolves, newer and more complex questions surrounding humanity arise. With each new advance, it becomes more difficult to define what truly makes one human or Humanoid.
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Audience reviews
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KToast77
Never before have I seen an anime with so much in it do nothing. It's a great examination of various ethical questions that arise within the setting of the world, but there's no end goal to answering these questions, with a lot of the basic plot setup from the first episode just going nowhere. I enjoyed my time with this show, but it's difficult to recommend.
The main cast are enjoyable enough, and definitely stand out from eachother, but a lot of the episode to episode side characters start suffering from a strong case of same face once you've been at it long enough. Conversely, from a growth perspective, watching these side characters grow seems to be the main focus, with the main cast themselves not really being any different in the last episode than they were in the first.
My final…
Read at the sourceDeepfry_Water
This anime is a nice commentary about how AI could influence our life in the future, and if that is a good or bad thing.
The good part about it is how it explores different scenarios of "what ifs".
That being said, it also had a "anime plot" that was really bad.... no conclusion, no explanation, no reveal of some kind of masterplan that it was hinted at. In that area it fails.
Still, if you want to see the challenges humanity could have if AI becomes even better, I recommend you watch it. Just don't expect the main plot - anime part to be good.
Read at the sourceFyrebirdi
If I'm being honest, my hormones dictated me watching this anime: if MC has white/silver hair I'm hooked. I went into this blind and, being somewhat 'funned out' by the whole AI hype, wasn't expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised.
From the onset it appears to be about humanoids, human-like AI beings, and their issues. But in truth its more about the human response to artificial intelligence and how we deal with the 'uncanny valley' we've found ourselves in. There's a saying: When you gaze into the abyss, it gazes back at you. Our response to challenges, uncertainty and 'otherness' is a reflection of who we are as an individual and as a species. We are so self absorbed that even our evaluation of AI has become a quest to discover who we are.
Story:
It's divided into sub-stories per ep…
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I Robot, U Robot.
In a sci-fi future where Artificial Intelligence and technology have advanced past the point of stealing and regurgitating work by human artists and can create their original art, highly advanced androids called humanoids are becoming part of everyday life. They look, think and feel just like humans, only told apart by their amber goat eyes. Through the story of Dr. Sudou who specialises in treating humanoids, The Gene of AI explores the thorny philosophical and the morality of a future bordering on dystopian.
Through his medical practice, Sudou hopes to find clues to the whereabouts of his humanoid mother's copied personality. Copying a humanoid’s personality is very, very illegal in this world for very obvious moral reasons and it landed his mother in jail after she…
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Easily the best anime of the season for me. I've watched plenty of sci-fi works depicting how the future would look like with AI or robot developed beyond human intelligence. They usually get stuck up in the repetitive "WHO AM I!? AM I EVEN HUMAN!>!>!!>?!?!?!" idea, it gets boring real quick. However, by using an episodic formula facilitated by Sudo's clinic setting, AI no Idenshi goes around the idea with multiple scenarios and perspectives. There is a variety of characters of different issues, showing wider possibilities of the future AI.
Not just that, the AIs in this anime have a distinct feature that separates it from other AI fictions. That is, they are not limited to one type of body or level of intelligence. The majority of AIs in this anime are called Humanoids, pretty self-expl…
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It's kind of difficult to start reviewing this anime because I still don't really know what to think about it.
The entire theme covered in it is something that particularly attracts me. The conception of advanced technology at a level we have not yet seen in our real world.
In Ai no Idenshi, the world and the beings that live there are completely technological, in addition to human beings, there are humanoids, coming from the advent and advancement of technology that I had mentioned and the anime's main theme is the dilemmas experienced on a daily basis. by these humans and the relationship of these problems with the main character who, in turn, is a human whose job is to study, understand and medicate these humanoids and this generates interesting debates and thoughts, to say the least,…
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It’s no news to anyone that the use of AI is increasing far more than before. Almost every company seems to be investing in AI, creating their own AI-based services, or otherwise experimenting with something in the fields of machine learning, computer intelligence, and other things. In all of this, the common people have been left mostly uniformed on how exactly everything worked, but fear of the unknown has filled the minds of many people in the wake of this AI boom. The Gene of AI came out at a perfect time to capitalize on these fears, but it does so in a way that genuinely gets the viewer thinking about the future in a meaningful way.
To start off, all of the audiovisual content is par for the course. None of the animation or character designs are particularly ground-breaking, but the…
Read at the sourceCaptainKenshiro
Did you ever think about what a mix between Monster and Time of Eve would be like? It’s called Pluto and it’s a very good manga that’s getting an adaptation coming out in October. AI no Idenshi is not that series, but it’s the one that could have been, as it presents a setting with artificial people living among humans, blending in in ways that on occasions the rest can’t tell much difference, while also the main character initially wants to know more about an underground illegal seller of artificial brains, or well, more like, a “fixer” of them, and possibly the one who ruined his mom’s life.
But this anime is really neither, as it deliberately keeps any more info of the protagonist than that as a secret to build some mystery around him up until the last episode, and thus that plot point…
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
Ai no Idenshi is perhaps one of the most relevant anime to be released in recent memory. In an era of ever evolving technology and artificial intelligence, AI no Idenshi raises many complicated questions such as “how far is too far with technology” and “what does it mean to be human” Both are morally ambiguous and divisive, and what I like about this show is that it frames these topics in a neutral manner. It doesn’t shove an answer down your throat, but forces you to consider your positions on the matter. It’s a really interesting and thought provoking show that deserves much more love. If you’re a sci-fi fan or just curious about what the future of humanity could look like, this is one for you.
Ai no Idenshi is set up in an episodic manner. It follows various individuals and their confl…
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DNA-focused anime, ID:Invaded, Plastic Memories...what has become of this barren land of science fiction that's not much focused in the world of AniManga? Is it that authors have a burning desire to share with the world the possibilities of AI, or are unwilling to cash in on a niche product that'll not catch on?
This season, there was one show that's more than enough to take on the premise of the world at large and its studies on AI, and that's mangaka Kyuuri Yamada's AI no Idenshi a.k.a The Gene of AI, a manga that lasted 87 chapters within 8 volumes, serialised between November 2015 and August 2017. But the anime, which is only announced 5 years later and finally aired this Summer season, is just sad to say that any appeal that the manga had that was heavily exclusive to Japan, did not…
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