The thing some people don't realize about films like 2001, Terminator, and The Matrix is that the dangers of AI don't have to play out that literally for it to be a problem. Case in point, many people are already slaves to technology well enough to destroy their ability to develop meaningful social connections in real life...as well as the fact that increasing advances in AI does have the potential to significantly wreck the employability of certain industries. These films are meaningful metaphors, even if only symbolic of people falling in lockstep with "the system" over individual freedom.
Fixing the Deja-Vu thing would be trivial. Instead of having Neo see the cat walk and shake, twice, while they're all on their way to the exit... you have Neo see the cat walk and shake once... and then Neo goes "Hmm?" BEFORE the crew leaves that spawnpoint building on the way to visit The Oracle. Then when they make it back to the spawn-point building, after having visited The Oracle.... Neo sees the same cat walk and shake exactly as it did when they first spawned-in. Neo goes "Hmm, Deja-Vu", and then everything else plays out exactly as it did in the movie (with the crew telling him Deja-Vu occurs when The Agents have changed something in the Matrix, then the exit gets blocked off, and everyone scrambles to escape).
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The thing some people don't realize about films like 2001, Terminator, and The Matrix is that the dangers of AI don't have to play out that literally for it to be a problem. Case in point, many people are already slaves to technology well enough to destroy their ability to develop meaningful social connections in real life...as well as the fact that increasing advances in AI does have the potential to significantly wreck the employability of certain industries.
These films are meaningful metaphors, even if only symbolic of people falling in lockstep with "the system" over individual freedom.
Very true.... lets just hope it doesn't end up in a robot vs humans world war
Fixing the Deja-Vu thing would be trivial.
Instead of having Neo see the cat walk and shake, twice, while they're all on their way to the exit... you have Neo see the cat walk and shake once... and then Neo goes "Hmm?" BEFORE the crew leaves that spawnpoint building on the way to visit The Oracle. Then when they make it back to the spawn-point building, after having visited The Oracle.... Neo sees the same cat walk and shake exactly as it did when they first spawned-in. Neo goes "Hmm, Deja-Vu", and then everything else plays out exactly as it did in the movie (with the crew telling him Deja-Vu occurs when The Agents have changed something in the Matrix, then the exit gets blocked off, and everyone scrambles to escape).
Well said. That would definitely fix the deja-vu issue we were talking about.
The Wachowskis took the blue pill
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