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Set in the year 2038,
Archive follows George Almore (Theo James) who is trying to cope after the untimely death of his wife, Jules (Stacy Martin), while working at a remote, secret facility researching AI technology to build a true, human equivalent android.
However, Jules is still present in George’s life… in a way… via a new form of life-extension technology: the Archive. Not only that but George has secretly skewed the focus of his work towards the goal of creating a simulacrum of Jules using the Archive. His latest prototype, J3, is almost complete, being achieved through two earlier prototypes, J1 (a robot with the learning ability of a young child) and J2 (whose brain capacity has maxed out in teenage years).
Archive is streaming from 18Â January.
In Archive, the feature debut of writer-director Gavin Rothery, two very different types of futurist technology converge: the emergence of âdeep-tiered machine-learning artificial intelligenceâ that can convincingly match a human mind; and the âArchiveâ of the title, a commercially available device that preserves the consciousness of the recently deceased so that surviving loved ones can continue to converse with them via a televisual medium that slowly degrades in quality over time.
Bringing these two techs together is George Almore (Theo James), a talented robotics engineer who is secretly developing a prototype android to house the archived consciousness of his wife Jules (Stacy Martin), killed two years ago in a car accident. Almore is under a lot of pressure: he might at any time lose his cushy job doing solo R&D in Japanâs Yamanashi prefecture (especially if his employers, the fictive ARM corporation, realis