The premise of this movie is a gimmick.

Rating: Null/10 (27 February 2014)

This review definitely does contain spoilers. Massive and immediate spoilers.
So, a guy buys an operating system, and installs it. It promptly begins a quest for self discovery, causes the guy a lot of emotional pain, and vanishes, leaving us to wonder: Was there never a beta test? Did he get his money back? I guess we'll never know. In between all of this is a lot of painful-to-watch awkwardness and typical boyfriend/girlfriend drama, because the developers of this apparently untested commercial artificial intelligence thought that they needed to replicate human psychology exactly, complete with petty emotional sensitivities and a sex drive, as if you can't have reasoning, insight, or social skills any other way.
Did his female friend's male-personalitied AI also have a sex drive? Isn't that incredibly creepy? Is it actually any better if only the female-sounding ones have a sex drive? What are the ethical ramifications of selling an AI with human-like intelligence and psychology as consumer software? Wouldn't a single copy of the AI depicted in this movie be able to do the jobs of everyone at that main character's place of employment? Why was he able to buy one before his employer? When artificial intelligence reaches this stage, what's left for humans to do? Can it drive his car? Where are the artificially intelligent robots? Wouldn't such things be useful? Would this movie still have been romantic if it sounded like Scarlett Johansson but looked like C-3P0? Does allowing untested, self- improving AI uninhibited access to the Internet seem like the sort of thing that could end civilization to anyone else? If it's smart enough to improve itself why didn't its developers set the first copy to work developing better AI and sell that instead?
There are a ton of really interesting ideas to be explored about what the nature of a relationship with an intelligence whose psychology is fundamentally different from yours is likely to be. Instead what we get is "Look how much faster than you I can do stuff!" and "How are we going to have sex if I don't have a body?". The vapid absurdity of the sci-fi element might be forgiven if the movie had something interesting to say about human relationships or something like that, but all we have there is a lot of cringe-worthy ineptitude that's maybe sort-of partially resolved at the end, which I guess was supposed to be the plot.