Sci-Fi AI Analogies
Commenters draw parallels between the discussed technology and classic science fiction movies and books featuring supercomputers, rogue AIs, and dystopian futures, such as Colossus, Terminator, HAL, and The Matrix.
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Sounds a bit like what happens in Colossus: The Forbin Project https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
Makes me think of the positronic brains from Asimovs books.
Haha. This reminds me of "Mother" in the Alien movie. Supercomputer, yet retro.
It reminds me of scifi movies where computers are made of crystals
Robocop (1987)¹ might provide an insight :D_____¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop
Not sure if it is the same story, but the canonical story like that ishttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Projectwhich has one of the best YouTube trailers ever.There is a scene in there where he walks in front of a dot matrix sign with excellent blocking, I've always wanted to make a meme generator that would let you change what's on
Remember the Terminator movie? It’s about an AI that went too far.
Watch the series SILO. Limited computer power and knowledge - how & why - may give you some different point of view :)
But wait, all of this has happened before, remember skynet's early days? oh...but that was a movie...
Have revisited 2001 recently. Particularly the scene just before Intermission. Where HAL is reading the lips of the astronauts in the pod. It just really holds up. Apart from the genius editing and sound design. It feels even more a cautionary moment for modern minds on AI. As it must have been to American audiences during the height of the Vietnam War era.Ridley Scott's original Alien and Blade Runner remain immensely watchable 30+ years on. Perhaps even more so. Which makes it high tim