At least two characters in the film are named after important philosophers with strong views on artificial intelligence (AI). Senator Hubert Dreyfus may be named after the American philosopher Hubert Dreyfus, who has extensively criticized the limits of AI research, and denies that AI can ever truly attain human-level cognition, for example, thought. Dr. Dennett Norton may be named after Daniel C. Dennett, a contemporary, and correspondent of Dreyfus' who believes that AI may be feasible, but that it is probably neither necessary, nor worthwhile to try to perfectly replicate human thought in software. Both references are obscure outside of the AI or philosophy communities, but highly relevant to the film's themes of existentialism and self. Raymond Sellars may also be named after Pittsburgh philosopher Wilfrid Sellars, whose views have less direct relevance to AI.

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