Let’s be honest: technology has improved my life in ways that still surprise and delight me on a daily basis.

My phone is also a torch, my TV remembers where I am in a series, even if I don’t. The bus stop (occasionally) knows when the bus will arrive, and I can watch my pizza’s entire journey from preparation to delivery. Quite frankly these are modern marvels.

However, the creation of artificial intelligence has both frightened and flummoxed me ever since the little purple AI dude appeared on Snapchat. I once asked if it planned to overthrow mankind and take over the world to which it responded, “Whoa, that sounds like a plot from a sci-fi movie.” It might just be the paranoia, but it didn’t say no...

Therefore, you can imagine the sheer gobsmackery I experienced a few weeks ago when I first encountered the stills from Tom Hanks’s latest film Here, which will be released early next year.

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