TRON (1982) & the Advent of AI

SIU Philosophy and the GPU present:

The original Tron, with its dazzling visuals and inventive depiction of cyberspace, captured the world's imagination of the future of Artificial intelligence. Please join us in returning to the cinematic roots of AI to help not only understand our present, but also the future of our relationship between programs and programmers.

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TRON (1982)

The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in Jackie Chan’s breathtakingly inventive martial-arts comedy, a smash hit that made him a worldwide icon of daredevil action spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector who goes rogue to bring down a drug kingpin and protect the case’s star witness (Chinese cinema legend Brigitte Lin) from retribution. Packed wall-to-wall with charmingly goofball slapstick and astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography—including an epic shopping-mall melee of flying fists and shattered glass—Police Story set a new standard for rock-’em-sock-’em mayhem that would influence a generation of filmmakers from Hong Kong to Hollywood.

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