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* In ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]] Vs. Predator'' - when this sort of thing would usually require a modicum of human intervention - a computer announces by way of bright red flashing that it's detected an "unusual heat signature" and then zooms in on the satellite photos of the source and generates a map which shortly thereafter becomes a plot point.
** Admittedly, this is a computer getting a feed produced by the film's fictional Weyland Corporation, the founder of which is the "pioneer of modern robotics", but this takes place and was ''filmed'' in 2004, so this would have to be a case of [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]] in that case.
* Computer usability guru Jakob Nielsen has written a list of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120812200338/http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html Top 10 Usability Bloopers in the Movies]
** He should see ''Star Trek IV''. It illustrates his point about the time travellers brilliantly- [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Hello, computer."]]
* ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' embraced this trope with enthusiasm, though to be fair, this ''is'' Tony Stark's home and company..when an 'outside' computer was used, it used a mostly text-based interface, and unwieldy keyboard commands. (F5 then "i"?)
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