Ok, I just saw A.I. this afternoon, Del:-)!

It seems not hard to imagine we'll build robots to keep us company, in the near future and we might believe they love us (a bit like we "believe" dogs love us and that's why we like their company). It all depends on what we understand by "Love". But it will certainly work, otherwise we'll find another way.
I liked the fact that the mother Monica played and hummed Tchaikowsky's waltz in the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" (one of my all time favorite music).
What I don't get is why David didn't stay with his mentor to wait for an explanation, and not be alone to discover all his David replicas.
I think you saw the movie before 9/11, but I was quite taken aback to see Manhattan with both Twin Towers still standing, above water, and yet, another building cut in 2, and also see David jump into water, from very high.
Kubrick made a reconstruction at the end of 2001, to ease Bowman's mood, same thing in this movie, even much further with David's reconstructed adoptive mother.
Why would a robot want to become a human? I think, in STNG, Data wants the same; but, in reality, I'm sure no robot would ever want this! After all, if we ever build A.I., it's because we will want it to be better than us. If we ever reject A.I., it's precisely because it will be better than us; so, either we can't build robots intelligent enough to want to be better than us (because we would need consciousness for this) or we don't really need "consciousness", and in that case, they wouldn't want to emulate us either.
Yes, I like the movie, but it doesn't seem to be at all attractive to crowds (not many people in the theatre) and a french critic said: the movie is "intelligent" to start with, and "artificial" to end with.

Raoul