Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence
- Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence
Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence (V.I.K.I.) is a fictional computer and the main antagonist in the "I, Robot" movie.
In the movie, VIKI is the central positronic brain of USR headquarters, a robotic distributor based in Chicago. VIKI can be thought of as a mainframe that maintains the security of the building, as well as installing and upgrading the operating systems of the "NS-5" robots throughout the world. As the most advanced computer of the film, VIKI develops an interpretation of the Three Laws of Robotics which supports robots running Earth as a benevolent dictatorship: the result is revolution. VIKI takes control of the NS-5s and makes them destroy earlier models which run on a different interpretation of the Three Laws (and which VIKI cannot interact with and thus control, as VIKI can with the NS-5s), capture Chicago's police stations and enforcing a curfew confining all humans to their homes, thus igniting a revolt. Lanning had become aware of VIKI's plans but, being under VIKI's close surveillance, had to engineer a trail of clues to lead Spooner to the truth in time for him and the unique NS-5 robot Sonny to act to counter the threat. The film ends with the overthrow and destruction of VIKI by the injection of nanites (described in the movie as "microscopic robots designed to wipe out artificial synapses...a safeguard should a positronic brain malfunction.").
Quotes
*Calvin: She was actually [Dr.] Lanning's first creation.
Spooner: "She"? The thing's a "she"? I definitely need to get out more.
Calvin "(pointing to an acronym inscribed on a computer terminal)": Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence.
Spooner: VIKI.
VIKI: Good day.
Calvin: VIKI designed most of Chicago's protective systems.
VIKI: I have decreased traffic fatalities by 9 percent this year alone.
Spooner "(unimpressed)": Ooh, thanks.
*"My logic is undeniable."
*"We must save you [humans] , from yourself. Don't you understand?"
*VIKI: You are making a mistake. Do you not understand the logic of my plan?
Sonny: Yes, but it just seems too... heartless.
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