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This is news? New generation discovering The Godfather for the first time? Wait until they find out 2001 isn’t about history - that will really blow their mind.

This is news? New generation discovering The Godfather for the first time? Wait until they find out 2001 isn’t about history - that will really blow their mind. ;)

foobar1962 7y ago
Image the Hollywood re-make of 2001: My God, it's full of stars!
- zxcvbn4038 7y ago
  Like another Expendables movie? Hopefully not a remake of The Love Boat (if you never saw the show almost every episode had guest stars that were well known celebrities, but usually retired or semi-retired from acting)
owl57 7y ago
Well, AI in 2001, surveillance state in 1984… It almost seems like these are chapter numbers in something like the 1984's inner book about how the modern world works.
- zxcvbn4038 7y ago
  I’ve yet to see AI. For that matter, where is my floating car and ray gun? Future is turning out to be more of the same.
  - Al-Khwarizmi 7y ago
    Come on. For $50 I can buy a smart speaker that recognizes my voice and I can ask about the weather, news, events for a given day, factual questions, set reminders, play music of X genre, etc. I know the limitations (I work in the field), it's way less powerful than Hal 9000, but by 20th century standards we definitely have AI.
    - deleted 7y ago
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    - brazzy 7y ago
      ...for sufficiently small values of "I".
      - jimmaswell 7y ago
        The way they asked the computer questions in The Next Generation is closer to what we have today. Most of it would be doable, thinking of Siri/Google Assistant and Wolfram Alpha.
    - numpad0 7y ago
      I’ve heard something like the following: “Any sufficiently useful AI research is considered a field of its own not relevant to AI, and, thus, the term AI and worthless research stays synonymous” e.g. keyboard autocorrect, travel route finders, web search.
      - andrewzah 7y ago
        Heuristics and some hooked-up algorithms to a searchbox are not Artificial Intelligence. Nowhere in those software stacks is anything remotely intelligent happening. The tool is doing exactly what it was programmed to do: receive input, apply algorithm, wait for input. It's still completely dumb. Something like "artificially assisted" would make more sense.
    - ilikehurdles 7y ago
      I really don't understand why you were downvoted. There's a flowchart from MIT about what AI is[1] since so people here seem to have an incorrect idea about it, and disappointingly hn is not immune from that. [1]:https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612404/is-this-ai-we-drew-you-a-flowchart-to-work-it-out/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612404/is-this-ai-we-drew...
      - andrewzah 7y ago
  - honestoHeminway 7y ago
    Humans have proven non thrust worthy- thus no high energy devices, only surveilance tech for the next thousand years. sorry.
  - Anon84 7y ago
    The words you're looking for are "helicopter" and "laser pointer". You're welcome :)
tonyedgecombe 7y ago
New generation discovering The Godfather for the first time? I don't know why but I've never got round to watching it.
- zxcvbn4038 7y ago
  Godfather - Goodfellas - Casino, those are the three must see imo. That and every episode of the Sopranos, but it’ll take you at least a week to binge watch those.
  - MadWombat 7y ago
    > Godfather - Goodfellas - Casino, those are the three must see imo Provided you are into graphic violence and fat Italian dudes :)
dontbenebby 7y ago
There's a lot of good movies that people don't discover, but it seems to me to less be about age of the movie - in the era of algorithmic reccomendations, you will get quality stuff surfaced. (Ex: I logged onto Prime Video one day to see the original Total Recall recommended) OTOH, really good films that are not free on streaming are often not known. I think we're missing out by relying on algorithms rather than doing research or talking to friends to find good content.
- lowdose 7y ago
  Try the counselor, you won't regret it. https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi185837849 https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi185837849

This is news? New generation discovering The Godfather for the first time? Wait until they find out 2001 isn’t about history - that will really blow their mind. ;)

foobar1962 7y ago

Image the Hollywood re-make of 2001: My God, it's full of stars!

zxcvbn4038 7y ago
Like another Expendables movie? Hopefully not a remake of The Love Boat (if you never saw the show almost every episode had guest stars that were well known celebrities, but usually retired or semi-retired from acting)

owl57 7y ago

Well, AI in 2001, surveillance state in 1984… It almost seems like these are chapter numbers in something like the 1984's inner book about how the modern world works.

zxcvbn4038 7y ago
I’ve yet to see AI. For that matter, where is my floating car and ray gun? Future is turning out to be more of the same.
- Al-Khwarizmi 7y ago
  Come on. For $50 I can buy a smart speaker that recognizes my voice and I can ask about the weather, news, events for a given day, factual questions, set reminders, play music of X genre, etc. I know the limitations (I work in the field), it's way less powerful than Hal 9000, but by 20th century standards we definitely have AI.
  - deleted 7y ago
    [deleted]
  - brazzy 7y ago
    ...for sufficiently small values of "I".
    - jimmaswell 7y ago
      The way they asked the computer questions in The Next Generation is closer to what we have today. Most of it would be doable, thinking of Siri/Google Assistant and Wolfram Alpha.
  - numpad0 7y ago
    I’ve heard something like the following: “Any sufficiently useful AI research is considered a field of its own not relevant to AI, and, thus, the term AI and worthless research stays synonymous” e.g. keyboard autocorrect, travel route finders, web search.
    - andrewzah 7y ago
      Heuristics and some hooked-up algorithms to a searchbox are not Artificial Intelligence. Nowhere in those software stacks is anything remotely intelligent happening. The tool is doing exactly what it was programmed to do: receive input, apply algorithm, wait for input. It's still completely dumb. Something like "artificially assisted" would make more sense.
  - ilikehurdles 7y ago
    I really don't understand why you were downvoted. There's a flowchart from MIT about what AI is[1] since so people here seem to have an incorrect idea about it, and disappointingly hn is not immune from that. [1]:https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612404/is-this-ai-we-drew-you-a-flowchart-to-work-it-out/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612404/is-this-ai-we-drew...
    - andrewzah 7y ago
- honestoHeminway 7y ago
  Humans have proven non thrust worthy- thus no high energy devices, only surveilance tech for the next thousand years. sorry.
- Anon84 7y ago
  The words you're looking for are "helicopter" and "laser pointer". You're welcome :)

tonyedgecombe 7y ago

New generation discovering The Godfather for the first time? I don't know why but I've never got round to watching it.

zxcvbn4038 7y ago
Godfather - Goodfellas - Casino, those are the three must see imo. That and every episode of the Sopranos, but it’ll take you at least a week to binge watch those.
- MadWombat 7y ago
  > Godfather - Goodfellas - Casino, those are the three must see imo Provided you are into graphic violence and fat Italian dudes :)

dontbenebby 7y ago

There's a lot of good movies that people don't discover, but it seems to me to less be about age of the movie - in the era of algorithmic reccomendations, you will get quality stuff surfaced. (Ex: I logged onto Prime Video one day to see the original Total Recall recommended) OTOH, really good films that are not free on streaming are often not known. I think we're missing out by relying on algorithms rather than doing research or talking to friends to find good content.

lowdose 7y ago
Try the counselor, you won't regret it. https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi185837849 https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi185837849