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    AI is no match for humanity's strength in this new Latino sci-fi film

    by Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times Sep 18, 2023 4 minutes

    One afternoon, Tita (Laura Patalano), an elderly fieldworker who works picking strawberries, opens her front door. An artificial intelligence humanoid (Nico Greetham) is at the door, its eyes gleaming with an adjusting camera. Tita analyzes the futuristic invention before letting it in.

    Tita has hired the humanoid to help her with her work, as she is getting older and isn't as agile as she used to be. But she soon will prove that an AI can't replace her humanity and strength.

    This story is immortalized in the film "The Ballad of Tita and the Machines," directed by Miguel Angel Caballero and co-written with Luis Antonio Aldana. It premiered at the and will make its way to Los Angeles at the NewFilmmakers Los, co-hosted by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, on Sept. 23. (

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