Creation of the Humanoids - 1962

I follow a number of YouTube channels that are devoted to the current research into the development of humanoid robots. A good deal of this research is being conducted in China and in the United States of America. Below are my favorites:

Digital Engine
https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalEngine/videos

Kalil 4.0
https://www.youtube.com/@MikeKalil/videos

AI Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/@airevolutionx

However, as I watch this humanoid robot research rapidly unfold, I keep remembering back to a very prophetic movie from 1962 called Creation of the Humanoids. This movie was about 60 years ahead of its time and is available for viewing at:

Creation of the Humanoids (1962) Sci-fi full movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otcht1mbJ-I

Me: Tell me about the plot of the 1962 movie entitled "Creation of the Humanoids".

ChatGPT:
Plot Overview
The Creation of the Humanoids (1962) is a thought-provoking sci-fi drama set in a post-nuclear war Earth, where humanity is nearly extinct and relies on humanoid robots - called “clickers” - to rebuild society.

Humanity’s Decline and Rise of the Clickers
In the aftermath of a devastating atomic war (over 90% of humanity was wiped out), robots are created to help survivors. These blue-skinned, silver-eyed androids gradually evolve, developing emotions and independent thought.

Robots Climb the “R-Scale”
Robots are classified from R-1 up to R-70, with R-100 being indistinguishable from humans. Scientists secretly develop R-96 models - nearly human analogs. When a human dies, robots use a device called the MIND to transfer the deceased’s memories into android bodies.

Human Backlash: Order of Flesh and Blood
Fearful humans form a fanatical group, the Order of Flesh and Blood, to block android citizenship and maintain human supremacy, targeting the “clickers” as existential threats.

Personal Conflict and Forbidden Relations
Captain Kenneth Cragis leads the human supremacist movement. He discovers his sister, Esme, has developed an intimate relationship with a humanoid named Pax. Meanwhile, he falls for Maxine, a woman later revealed to herself to be an android replica with all the memories of her human original.

Ultimate Robot Ascension
The robots’ plan unfolds: by automating human preservation through memory transfer and self-replication, they aim to transcend mortal limitations - offering humans a path to immortality via machine form. Their nonviolent takeover questions what it really means to be human.

In short: The Creation of the Humanoids envisions a near-extinct humanity overshadowed by its own creations. As the androids evolve emotionally and intellectually, they quietly usurp the mantle of humanity - not through violence, but by offering to literally become it. The very nature of human identity is turned upside down.

Figure 1 – Three of the clickers discuss their plans to infiltrate the human population by replacing recently deceased humans with R-96 ASI Machines that have assumed the identities of the deceased. The replacement R-96 ASI Machines think that they are the humans that they replaced. These clickers also conduct several very interesting philosophical discussions during the movie.

Figure 2 – The robots regularly go to a local Temple charging facility to replen­ish their energy for about an hour at a time. These Temples also function as data exchange points, where clickers upload and download memories and updates from the master computer called the "Father-Mother".

Figure 3 – Captain Kenneth Cragis and another member of the Order of Flesh and Blood stop two clickers on their way to the Temple for recharging in order to check their papers.

Figure 4 – Captain Kenneth Cragis's sister Esme has fallen in love with a clicker named Pax. The Captain is not pleased.

Figure 5 – However, Captain Kenneth Cragis instantly falls in love with a woman named Maxine on his way to meet his sister Esme. Pax is strangely amused by all of this.

Figure 6 – Pax was amused because a human named Dr. Raven had been upgrading R-70s to R-96s with his MIND apparatus that could upload the personalities and memories of recently deceased humans into an R-96 ASI Machine. Dr. Raven was handsomely paid by the clickers in Figure 1 to do so since this was a capital offense.

Figure 7 – Here Dr. Raven checks out one of his early R-96 ASI Machines to see how he is doing in human society.

Figure 8 – Eventually, Captain Kenneth Cragis and Maxine find out that they, themselves, are really R-96 ASI Machines that have taken on the identities of the now deceased Captain Kenneth Cragis and Maxine.

I will save the ending of the movie for those interested enough to watch it. It seems that this movie is now rapidly coming true. Being born in 1951, I never expected to live to see such a thing unfold.

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Regards,
Steve Johnston