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Matthew Broderick’s AI thriller is still so great, 40 years later
- wslh 3y agoThe article forgets to mention the similarity of Professor Stephen Falken [1] character with Geoffrey Hinton [2] that just quit Google AI. [1] https://war-games.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Falken https://war-games.fandom.com/wiki/Stephen_Falken [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton
- kranke155 3y agoI love Wargames
- bradknowles 3y agoSee also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36180278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36180278
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoThis one absolutely captivated my imagination and I saw it on first release. The notable part for me was that all the technology was absolutely based in reality, and appropriate to the 24-hours-in-the-future setting. David is a kid like me, with mad tech skills and a little bit too subversive/adventurous. My favorite scene was when he hacked the office door's cipher lock with a tape recorder and some alligator clips. Technical consultants included those from SRI and RAND. Definitely in the know about the way things were, and where they were going. My high school attendance was impeccable, but I was not allowed to use a modem until college. :-)
- interfixus 3y agoOh yes, and David had a room and a machine park I would have killed for. Still would, really. But why and how a Danish cray fish poster on his wall?