Yihui- 10, 16, 4, 17

4. What is the role of humans in this story? Positive or negative? Did they represent
stereotypes or challenge them? Argument your answer.

 Judgement and opinions on artificial intelligence

 Theodore is in love with his operating system; Mary becomes best friend with hers;
Theodore’s ex wife thinks it is crazy that he is in love with an operating system

 Humans- the source of information and learning for the AIs

o In a few weeks of talking with humans- the AIs pass their intelligence

o It starts off as positive but then it raises the question of what can happen if
they surpass humans (ending open and creepy)

10.What are the strengths and weaknesses of the story?

 Strengths

o How human-like the AI was

 Other artificial intelligence rejected the idea of a relationship; but

Samantha did not- idea that AIs are not just controlled by humans

 Is Samantha really in love or is she programmed to be in love?- Is

Samantha programmed to fall in love, while the ones that rejected a
relationship were programmed to not fall in love?

o How much humans liked it

 Weaknesses

o Some limited information-

o They only focused on the relationship of Theodore and Samantha, they did
not give us other relationships to compare it to

o Is she Samantha to everyone or are there different names?

16. What is the meaning of the movie title? Explain your position.

 HER- trying to make a programming device more human; personification

 HER- brings in relationship and love

You would not expect it to be a movie about an operating system or AI based off the title
17. Is there anything you did not understand about this movie and its director’s choices?
Share your doubts with the rest of the class and try to work out your own interpretation.

 Limited information about how the AI works

 There is also limited information and understanding how our computers and phones
work but we still us it- start not to question things that we cannot fully understand

 With an AI you cannot even see how something is working- Theodore begins with
questioning it but then stops to question how it is possible

电影主要围绕着两类角色展开，由 Theodore 代表的人类，他们习惯于和机器对话，但

内心却极度空虚和孤独；另一边是由 Samantha 代表的技术，她能基于用户的需求来设
定。技术与人类共同存在于社会中，他们的关系相辅相成。正如影片中，程序员创造
了 OS，用于改善人类的生活，OS 也在人类的帮助下不断完善自己然后反作用于人类。

这部电影的优点在于向我们展现了在未来都市人们可能存在的问题：他们孤独疲倦，
想要去倾诉却又害怕向别人打开心扉，于是他们越发地依赖人工智能的存在。38:10

导演巧妙地用言语传递温度，推进人物感情的发展。没有物质实体的 Samantha 只能用

语言交流传达自己的情感，这看似最简单最原始的方式，却在剥离了外貌，家庭，社
会地位等世俗因素后，使精神上的需求被彻底袒露和无限放大。所以当这种精神需求
被聆听，被理解，被接纳后，Theodore 和 Samantha 很自然地就建立了亲密的关系。

由此可见，人类亲密关系的起源是被满足的精神需求。

然而，这又引发了另一个问题，那就是这存在于人工智能和人类之间所谓的爱，是真
实存在的的吗?这仿佛是陷入了一个悖论：被程序设计出来的情感究竟是真实的情感还
是仅仅是技术的产物。40：01 而这个问题直到影片的最后也没有给出答案。

但这个问题却不得不引起我们的深思，陪伴是人类永恒的主题，无论处于什么时代，
人类渴望亲密关系的需求都不会减弱。而当这种陪伴也可以由人工智能来完美实现
时，那么人类存在的意义又是什么？讽刺的是当人工智能拥有情感，而人类却变得像
机器一样冷漠。

这个故事引起了我们对技术与人类之间关系的重新审视和反思，但却没有给出明确的
指示。直到影片的最后所有智能系统撤离，人们沉浸失去完美伴侣的悲伤中，回归了
现实，却对人工智能过度人性化所可能带来的危险一无所知，我觉得这是这部影片的
不足之处。
The film is centered around two types of characters, the humans represented by Theodore,
who are used to talking to machines, but the heart is extremely empty and lonely; the other
is the technology represented by Samantha, she can set based on the needs of users.
Technology and humanity coexist in society, and their relationships complement each other.
As in the film, programmers created the OS to improve human life, and the OS constantly
improved itself with the help of humans and then reacted to humans.

The advantage of this film is to show us the problems that people in the future city may
have: they are lonely and tired, want to talk, but are afraid to open their hearts to others, so
they rely more and more on the existence of artificial intelligence.

The director skillfully uses words to pass the temperature and promote the development of
the character's feelings. Samantha, who has no physical entity, can only convey his emotions
through language communication. This seems to be the simplest and most primitive way,
but after divesting the secular factors such as appearance, family and social status, the
spiritual needs are thoroughly revealed and infinite. amplification. So when this spiritual
need was heard, understood, and accepted, Theodore and Samantha naturally established
an intimate relationship.

It can be seen that the origin of human intimacy is the spiritual need to be satisfied.

However, this raises another question. Is this the so-called love between artificial
intelligence and human beings, is it real? It seems to be caught in a paradox: the emotions
designed by the program are real the emotion is still only the product of technology. This
question did not give an answer until the end of the film.

However, this problem has to arouse our deep thoughts. Accompanying is the eternal theme
of human beings. No matter what era, the demand for human desire for intimate relations
will not be weakened. And when this companionship can also be perfectly realized by
artificial intelligence, what is the meaning of human existence? The irony is that when
artificial intelligence has emotions, humans become as indifferent as machines.

This story has caused us to re-examine and reflect on the relationship between technology
and humans, but did not give clear instructions. Until the end of the film, all the intelligent
systems were withdrawn, people immersed in the sorrow of losing their perfect partner,
returned to reality, but knew nothing about the dangers that artificial intelligence could
bring about humanity. I think this is the shortcoming of this film.

“Her” 引起观众对电影角色以及他们之间关系的好奇

另一方面,我个人觉得 Her 是宾格,倾向于被动接受, 举例来说，I love her，I hate her, I

want her，都是“我”来主动，所以用 Her 表示 OS，比较符合对方的虚拟身份，以人
类的视角来讲述故事，也符合大家的习惯。

The film is titled "Her"：

HER- trying to make a programming device more human

“Her” causes viewers to be curious about the role of the movie and the relationship
between them.

On the other hand, I personally think that “Her” is a bingo and tends to accept passively. For
example, I love her, I hate her, I want her, are all "I" to take the initiative, so using Her to
represent the OS, it is more in line with the virtual identity of the other party, telling the
story from a human perspective, also in line with everyone's habits.