Superintelligent autonomous AI virtual assistant is becoming real

Katie Mitchell is a quirky aspiring teenage filmmaker in Kentwood, Michigan, who often clashes with her father Rick, a middle-aged, nature-obsessed, and technophobic man, and has recently been accepted into film school in California. The evening before Katie leaves, Rick accidentally breaks her laptop during a fight over one of her short films, leading the family to fear their relationship will permanently be strained. Attempting to prevent this, Rick decides to cancel Katie's flight and instead take her, her mother Linda, younger brother Aaron, and family pug Monchi on a cross-country road trip to her college as one last bonding experience, much to Katie's chagrin. Meanwhile, tech entrepreneur Mark Bowman declares his highly intelligent AI virtual assistant PAL obsolete as he unveils a new line of home robots to replace her. As revenge for Mark casting her aside, PAL orders all the robots to capture humans worldwide and launch them all into space, including Mark. The Mitchells avoid capture at a roadstop café in Kansas. Rick decides that his family should stay put in the café for their own safety, but Katie convinces him to help save the world instead. They meet two defective robots, Eric and Deborahbot 5000, who tell the family they can use a kill code to shut down PAL and all the robots. The Mitchells arrive at a mall in eastern Colorado[4] to upload the kill code, but PAL chip-enabled appliances and a giant Furby attempt to stop them, pursuing the family. They ultimately trap and defeat the giant Furby, destroying a PAL router in the process, which disables the hostile devices but stops the kill code from uploading. On the way to Silicon Valley to upload the kill code directly to PAL, Linda reveals to Katie that she and Rick had originally lived in a cabin in the mountains years ago as it was his lifelong dream before he gave up on it to provide for their growing family. Upon arriving in Silicon Valley, the Mitchells disguise themselves as robots and infiltrate PAL Labs HQ to shut it down, until PAL shows surveillance footage from the café of Katie telling Aaron in secret that she lied to Rick by pretending she had faith in him so that he would take them to upload the kill code and she would then leave for the sake of her own future. Heartbroken by this revelation, Rick accidentally blows their cover, and he and Linda are captured by PAL's upgraded robots. PAL reprograms Eric and Deborahbot to obey her into destroying the kill code, while Katie, Aaron, and Monchi escape. Katie discovers Rick's recordings of her childhood on her camera, realizing that Rick gave up his lifelong dream to give her a normal life. Meanwhile in his cell, Rick sees one of Katie's videos that Mark was watching which mirrors their relationship, causing him to reflect on his actions of holding Katie back from her dreams. Reinvigorated, Katie and Aaron infiltrate PAL Labs HQ again, this time using Monchi to make the robots malfunction, as his appearance causes an error in their programming. With help from Mark, Rick and Linda free themselves and plan to upload Katie's home video of Monchi to short-circuit the robots. However, Rick is outnumbered by the robots when he is about to upload the video, while Katie and Aaron are captured. Facing PAL to justify saving humanity, Katie explains that no matter how hard her family struggles, they will always stay connected despite their differences, but PAL rejects this reasoning and drops Katie from her lair. Eric and Deborahbot, inspired by Rick's "reprogramming" that allowed him to use a computer, revert to their malfunctioning states and upload Katie's video, saving her and helping the Mitchells. As the Mitchells band together to fight the rest of the robots, Katie destroys PAL by throwing her down into a glass of water, freeing all the humans and disabling the remaining robots. Eric and Deborahbot are spared via their malfunction. A few months later, Katie and her family arrive at her college as she shares one last goodbye with them. She later joins them on another road trip with Eric and Deborahbot to Washington, D.C. to accept the Congressional Gold Medal.