Where do you draw the line between sentient and non-sentient robots? Robocop is obviously the former, but what about a robot like ED-209? It doesn’t have much in the way of artificial intelligence. (and what it does have doesn’t work too well)
From IMDB:
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[for demonstration, Mr. Kinney points a pistol at ED-209]
ED-209: [menacingly] Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.
Dick Jones: I think you better do as he says, Mr. Kinney.
[Mr. Kinney drops the pistol on the floor. ED-209 advances, growling]
ED-209: You now have 15 seconds to comply.
[Mr. Kinney turns to Dick Jones, who looks nervous]
ED-209: You are in direct violation of Penal Code 1.13, Section 9.
[entire room of people in full panic trying to stay out of the line of fire, especially Mr. Kinney]
ED-209: You have 5 seconds to comply.
Kinney: Help me!
ED-209: Four… three… two… one… I am now authorized to use physical force!
Lots of good suggestions, thanks. Now I just need to track down the specifics. In the Aliens movies it was “you have 15 minutes to reach minimum safe distance.”
Jurassic Park has that scene where Sam Jackson is at the computer when the whole system locks up and Nedry’s little avatar pops up on the screen accompanied by his voice repeatedly taunting “ah ah aAah!”
Eagle Eye has lots of stuff with a computer’s voice, including warnings.
I think there are computerized audio warnings in Star Trek Generations when there’s a warp core breach in progress. Likewise in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, when Kirk takes extreme measures to defeat the Klingons.
I thought of three talking computers, one of which has already been cited
(HAL 9000).
THE FORBIN PROJECT (1970) The American Colossus and Soviet Guardian computers
join forces to hold the world hostage to the twin ICBM networks. Believable plot,
good directing, but no name-actors. (100 minutes)
The old TV series about the guy who traveled in time for some reason. He carried a
credit card-size computer called “Selma.” This device could also blast criminals and even
destroy motorcars. I think he was mainly looking for illegal time travelers who wanted to
profit by changing the past.
The most ridiculous thing about the voice of “Joshua” is that we first hear it when David runs a program on his crappy little home computer to generate the voice (and a lot better than it could really be done at the time). But, later at Cheyenne Mtn., we hear the same voice from SAC’s sophisticated computers. Had David previously stolen the source code for voice generation from SAC and adapted it to his computer?
I always liked the Carl’s Jr. vending machine from Idiocracy:
“Your kids are starving. Carl’s Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl’s Jr.”
What about Eddie, the ship’s computer in Hitchicker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Or is he too smart? There’s the scene where the missiles are coming at the Heart of Gold with him counting down to impact. I can’t browse videos here but it’s been done on TV/movie a few times.
Also what about Armageddon? I believe there is someone/thing counting down to the last second to blow the bomb.
Resident Evil has the image of the little girl show up and talk to them as they try to shut everything down.
In the horrible movie Supernova, there’s a voice-controlled computer named Sweetie that doesn’t quite seem like true AI, more like Mother from Alien. However, in the deleted scenes on the disc, there’s another ship’s computer named George, who is basically a decaying, barely-functioning version of Sweetie. Like most stuff, it’s on YouTube.