Remotely piloted drones have been the intelligence stars of the wars, but the Pentagon cannot build them quickly enough to meet the demand.
Now, on behalf of DreamWorks and Warner Brothers, Mr. Spielberg is about to release "A.I. -- Artificial Intelligence," starring Haley Joel Osment as a robotic boy programmed with the capacity to love the humans around him.
CBS has picked up two dramas, "Intelligence" starring Josh Holloway, and "Hostages" starring Toni Collette, the network announced today.
The network also ordered "Intelligence" starring Josh Holloway, "Hostages" starring Toni Collette, "Crazy Ones" with Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar, Will Arnett's "The Millers" and "We Are Men" starring Tony Shalhoub.
The long-running "Survivor" will get a special 90-minute season debut a few days early on Wednesday, Sept. 18, and the midseason drama "Intelligence," starring Josh Holloway, won't debut until Feb. 24.
Such an epiphany does not come easily to a company of can-do techies who make intelligence satellites, Star Wars laser weapons and ballistic missiles.
For science-fiction buffs, "artificial intelligence" conjures Star Trek-like speculations on how smart machines could be, whether they can ever love, laugh and demand justice, or whether robots will eventually take over the planet.
His sense, for example, that we still live in the "iron prison house" of a materialistic Roman Empire and that, in some very real sense, it is always 50AD – or his attempt to describe God as a Vast Active Living Intelligent System, an artificial intelligence orbiting another star, were partly religious insights, partly craziness and partly plot ideas.
(Mr. Spielberg was away working on "A.I.," a techno-thriller about artificial intelligence that will star Jude Law and Haley Joel Osment).
