Super-Toys Last All Summer Long and Artificial Intelligence

'Super-Toys Last All Summer Long' is a short story written by Brian Aldiss. It is a science fiction short story. The story is about an overpopulated world where child's birth is controlled, and the artificial superficiality of the American lifestyle has become more familiar.There are three main characters in the story; David, Monica Swinton and her husband Henry Swinton. David is a robot boy who struggles to express his feelings to his mother and ponders the question of what is real; his mother Monica Swinton, who struggles to endure the loneliness of her isolated lifestyle; and her husband Henry, who is involved in the development of intelligent robots that will be able to serve as social companions for humans. At the end, it is revealed that the couple have been waiting for permission to have a child; David is not a "real" boy.

Whereas the motion picture 'Artificial Intelligence' adapted from the short story is directed by Steven Spielberg. It tells the story of David, a mecha programmed with the ability to love. David is adopted by a married couple, but is then left on his own with a robotic teddy bear and a male prostitute mecha named Gigolo Joe just because he is not a 'real' boy.

The discussion of both of the stories revolve around the question of how intelligent human beings in creating new invention. The robot that is created in the story looks very real. We know as humans we are god's creation but we are gifted with brain that helps us to think creatively and we can create and invent new things using all the sources around us. However, as god's creation, we still could not create the same as what god has created. The exact examples are from both of the stories. There are still something missing in human's invention as compare to god's nature creation.