'Original, weird and dark': Rashida Jones on new series 'Sunny' that's set in near-future Japan


Rashida Jones says she immediately felt affectionate towards Sunny the first she 'met' the homebot. Photos: Handout

Stories around artificial intelligence are aplenty in the fictional world.

To list them out will be too long, but to cite some examples on film, there are those killer cyborgs (Terminator franchise), them useful bioengineered humanoids (Blade Runner), a cute square metal fella tasked to clean up Earth (Wall-E) and, more recently, an AI resembling a child that wants to save humanity (The Creator).

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