Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts concerning AI and philosophy. - Videos

Stanley Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Arthur C. Clarke believed humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

Ellie - I find that the people who need healing are the ones who need to believe the human experiment is going to evolve to wherever. Those who are programmed with balanced emotions and intellect - understand this is a simulation (artificial hologram) that's ending. Just look around.

On the matter of extraterrestrials - they are artificial intelligence monitoring and influencing the human experiment based on the algorithm of its design. AI will bring the long sort-after answers about creation and aliens.