What do these movies have in common? Bicentennial Man, Tron, Short Circuit, WarGames, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, D.A.R.Y.L. If you guessed that artificial intelligence is crucial to the plot, and that you must be older than 40 to recognize many of them, you would be correct. Maybe a more current list would include Chappie, Transcendence, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Transformers, and Rogue One. If Hollywood movies are any indicator, we find the concept of self-aware creatures fascinating. So the real-life attempt to make a self-aware “cyberslug” should not surprise anyone.